Our Reputation

We are a nonprofit hospital with a reputation as an international leader in providing state-of-the-art medical care for children.  The hospital has a history of pioneering new and minimally-invasive techniques to help children heal faster, and serves as a major regional referral center for children who require life-saving acute care.   In addition, we are a leader in providing family-centered care, integrating family members as partners in a sick or injured child's recovery.  We rank among the top 10 hospitals known to conduct innovative pediatric biomedical research.

U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report has ranked our hospital 9th among 143 hospitals in the nation.  We have consistently been named one of the top pediatric facilities in the nation since 1990.  Find out more about our rankings from this publication.

 

Leapfrog "Top Hospital" Award 

Our hospital is one of eight children's hospitals to be designated a “Top Hospital” for 2009 by The Leapfrog Group.

More than 1,200 hospitals completed The Leapfrog Hospital Survey, but only thirty-four urban, eight children’s and three rural hospitals were named Top Hospitals based on results from the survey.  Find out more about this award. 
 

Customer-Friendly Hospital

Childrens Hospital Los Angeles is one of only 15 hospitals in California, and one of only seven children's hospitals nationwide, to receive a 2007 Hospital of Choice Award from the American Alliance of Healthcare Providers (AAHP).  This award is given to institutions that are the most customer-friendly hospitals in America. 
 

Leading Physicians

Our faculty members are regularly ranked among the leading healthcare practitioners in the nation by their peers, and listed in distinguished publications such as Best Doctors in America and America's Top Doctors.  
 

Excellence in Nursing

The American Nurses Credentialing Center has accorded our hospital with Magnet Recognition.  Magnet status is used as a national benchmark of the quality of care provided by a hospital's nursing force. 

Leading Researchers

We have more than 90 faculty members who are principal investigators in peer review and extramurally funded research studies. Many are on advisory boards for scientific journals and funding agencies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH). During the last 15 years, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has ranked our hospital among the top eight recipients of research funding.