Children's Hospital Los Angeles

This article is about Children's Hospital Los Angeles. For other similarly named hospitals, see Children's Hospital (disambiguation). For other uses of the CHLA acronym, see Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance.

Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Geography
Location	4650 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Organisation
Care system	Private
Type	Children's
Affiliated university	University of Southern California
Services
Emergency department	Level I Pediatric Trauma Centers
Beds	300+
History
Opened	1901
Links
Website	http://www.chla.org/
Lists	Hospitals in U.S.

Children's Hospital Los Angeles, is a non-profit hospital and is the largest regional referral center for children in critical condition who need life-saving care. Each year, the institution cares for well over 100,000 infants, children and young adults by providing more than 350 pediatric programs and services.

The hospital has been included in the Best Children's Hospitals Honor Roll by U.S. News & World Report and is currently the top-ranked hospital for children in California. It has also received Magnet Recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Children's Hospital Los Angeles is home to The Saban Research Institute, the only freestanding research institute dedicated to the pursuit of advancing medicine for children in southern California.

University Affiliation

The hospital is affiliated with the Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California.

Leadership

The current president and CEO is Paul S. Viviano who joined the institution in August 2015.

Care Provision

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.

Through the research performed at The Saban Research Institute, the institution has a global impact on child health.

Statistics regarding care:

• More than 62,000 children are treated each year in the Emergency Department
• Children's is designated as a Level I Pediatric Trauma Center by the Los Angeles County EMS Agency
• The institution is home to one of the largest dedicated neonatal/pediatric transport program in the nation, annually triaging more than 3,000 patients using a Sikorsky S-76 helicopter, chartered Lear jet and other means of transportation.
• The organization cares for children more than 500,000 times in a single year through 37 outpatient clinics and laboratories and nearly 2,800 visits at community sites.
• Maintains one of the most active and productive Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) centers in the United States, providing long-term cardiac and/or pulmonary bypass support for infants and children who are in life-threatening cardiac or cardio-respiratory failure in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit.
• Provides innovative therapies for high-risk infants transferred from other hospitals throughout Southern California and beyond
• Maintenance of the only dedicated, separately staffed pediatric Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit for children on the west coast
• Provides 35 pediatric critical care beds, more than at any other hospital in the Western United States.

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 and was dedicated in March 2013.

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.

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. More than 400 faculty collaborate to combat cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, autism, obesity and diabetes, among other devastating pediatric conditions. The hospital is the eighth most productive center in the nation, as measured by its funding levels 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.

External links

• This hospital in the CA Healthcare Atlas A project by OSHPD