Children's Hospital Los Angeles

This article is about Children's Hospital Los Angeles. For other similarly named hospitals, see Children's Hospital (disambiguation).
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Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Geography
Location 4650 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Organisation
Care system Private
Hospital type Children's
Affiliated university University of Southern California
Services
Emergency department Level I Pediatric Trauma Centers
Beds 300+
History
Founded 1901
Links
Website http://www.chla.org/
Lists Hospitals in U.S.

Children's Hospital Los Angeles, is a non-profit hospital that cares for more than 107,000 infants, children and young adults each year,[1] with physician expertise in over 100 pediatric specialties and subspecialties.[2]

The hospital has been included in the Best Children's Hospitals Honor Roll for 2012-2013 by U.S. News & World Report and is currently the 5th ranked children's hospital in the United States and the top ranked children's hospital in the western United States.[3] It has also received Magnet Recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center.[4]

The hospital is affiliated with the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. The current president and CEO is Richard D. Cordova, FACHE. Mr. Cordova announced his plans to retire in December 2014.[5] Paul S.Viviano will become the President and CEO of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles in August 2015.[6]

Care provision

Children's Hospital Los Angeles is the largest regional referral center for children in critical condition who need life-saving care.

While most of the children admitted come from Los Angeles County, others come from the seven-county area near Los Angeles that includes Kern, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. Additional referrals come from elsewhere around the world.

Statistics regarding care:

Sunset Bridge

Children's Hospital Los Angeles is the only pediatric academic medical center in the United States to have a bridge across Route 66. The hospital's main bridge connects its north and south sides of its main campus with a bridge that crosses Sunset Boulevard, an iconic thoroughfare that not only traverses Hollywood and a major section of Los Angeles.

The 40-ton, 117-foot-long walkway bridge was bolted into place above Sunset Boulevard between Vermont Avenue and Rodney Drive in October 2012[7] and was dedicated in March 2013.[8]

Construction of the Los Angeles city landmark was jointly supported by two of Los Angeles' most significant philanthropists, Cheryl Saban, PhD, and Marion Anderson, who, along with their spouses Haim Saban and the late John Edward Anderson, jointly funded the $10 million project. Both ZGF Architects and Traffic Management, Inc., groups that helped move the Space Shuttle Endeavour to the California Science Center, played significant roles in the construction and move of the bridge into its current position.

Research and Education

The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is among the largest and most productive pediatric research centers in the western United States. The institution conducts laboratory, clinical, translational and community research designed to investigate the developmental origins of health and disease. With $74.8 million in total funding and $32.7 million in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding, more than 400 faculty collaborate to combat cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, autism, obesity and diabetes, among other devastating pediatric conditions. The hospital is among the top 10 children’s hospitals for funding from the National Institutes of Health--which provides highly competitive grants to researchers.

The best pediatricians in the country are trained at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles; training programs include 341 medical students, 168 student shadowers, 90 full-time residents, three chief residents and 116 fellows. For the past 16 years, 96 percent of those graduating from the CHLA Residency Program passed the American Board of Pediatrics exam on the first attempt, well above the national average of 75 to 80 percent.

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