Our hospital provides the highest quality healthcare for children who are the sickest and most seriously injured in our region and beyond. Each year, we treat over 93,000 children who need care that is so complex, it can only be provided by medical experts.

Our Mission
To make a world of difference in the lives of children, adolescents and their families by integrating medical care, education and research to provide the highest quality care and service to our diverse community

A New Vision for the Future
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles will be one of the best pediatric medical centers in the world, known for advancing research and providing definitive diagnosis and treatment for our diverse community of children and adolescents with complex diseases.

How We Accomplish our Mission
Childrens 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 to Childrens Hospital Los Angeles 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 and around the world.

To accomplish our mission, we:

Treat more than 62,000 children a year in our Emergency Department alone

Are designated as a Level I Pediatric Trauma Center by the Los Angeles County EMS Agency

Operate 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, a charted Lear jet and other means of transportation

Admit more than 11,000 children a year to the hospital, with almost 50-percent of those admissions children under the age of five

Triage more than 287,000 visits a year to the 29 outpatient clinics and laboratories at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles " nearly 2,800 visits at community sites through the Division of Adolescent Medicine

Perform more than 13,900 pediatric surgeries a year, including more than 850 cardiothoracic surgeries (heart, lung and heart-lung transplants), 550 cardio-catheterizations; 650 neurosurgeries; and 1,570 orthopaedic surgeries.

Maintain 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 - those who would likely perish without this extraordinary method of life support to allow precious time to heal and recover - in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit.

Provide innovative therapies for high-risk infants transferred from other hospitals throughout Southern California and beyond.

Maintain the only dedicated, separately staffed pediatric Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit on the west coast

Provide 35 pediatric critical care beds, more than at any other hospital in the western United States.

Childrens Hospital Los Angeles is world-renowned for its patient care. The sickest, most seriously injured children are treated here.

We treat more than 62,000 patients a year in our Emergency Department, alone.
We admit more than 11,000 children a year to the hospital, with almost 50 percent of those admissions children under four years of age.
There are more than 287,000 visits a year to our 29 outpatient clinics and laboratories; nearly 3,300 visits at community sites through our Division of Adolescent Medicine.
We are able to offer the optimum in multidisciplinary care, with more than 100 pediatric subspecialties and subspecialty areas.
Hospital Separates Conjoined Twins
Childrens Hospital's expertise was demonstrated in the separation of conjoined twins at our hospital. Regina and Renata Fierros, one-year old twins were joined at the abdomen and pelvis. A team of 80 caregivers at our hospital combined forces to intervene in their young lives to separate them, rebuild their young bodies, and care for them until they could return home for their recovery.

Facts about our Patient Care
Our pediatric cardiovascular surgery program is one of the five largest in the nation.
Our Center for Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism is one of the two largest programs in the nation for dialysis of children with chronic kidney failure - and the first in the world to provide dialysis.
The Cystic Fibrosis Center is the largest program in the West and one of the five largest in the United States.
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles was one of the first hospitals in the country to develop a children’s arthritis program (our Division of Rheumatology cares for children throughout five southwestern states).
We are an international leader in gene therapy for pediatric immune and genetic disorders.
We are the only children’s hospital to have a functional MRI program for studying brain development in children.
We care for the largest number of children with spina bifida in the country.
We have the largest program for metabolic diseases in the country.
We provide innovative surgery for treatment of disfiguring hemangiomas
Patient Care Statistical Report
Patients

Number of Licensed Beds 286
Discharges 11,106
Patient Days 88,367
Clinic Visits¹ 276,253
Emergency Services Visits 64,788


Charity Care and Other Community Benefits

Charity Care² $1.5 million
Unpaid cost of Medi-Cal programs³ 89.2 million
Unfunded support provided for research 7.9 million
Funds provided for training of allied health
professionals, physicians and residents 6.5 million
Funds provided for Community Service
Projects, Vulnerable Populations and the
Broader Community 3.1 million

¹ Includes outpatient and lab visits
² Measured by uncollected patient care charges for care provided to those with inadequate or no health insurance.
³ The Medi-Cal program partially offsets these losses through the Disproportionate Share Hospital Program, designed to support “safety net” hospitals like Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. Childrens Hospital Los Angeles received $47.8 million in Disproportionate Share Hospital Funding in FY 2007

Marion Anderson
Co-Chair

Richard D. Cordova
President & Chief Executive Officer

Diemlan "Lannie" Tonnu, MBA, CPA
Chief Financial Officer John D. (Jack) Pettker
Co-Chair

Enrique Hernandez, Jr.
Vice Chairman


BOARD MEMBERS

Robert Adler, MD
Brooke Anderson
Marion Anderson
CeCe Baise
June Banta
Adele Haggarty Binder
Otis Booth, III
Patricia A. Brown
Alex Chaves, Sr.
Peggy Tsiang Cherng, PhD
Maria Contreras-Sweet
Richard D. Cordova, FACHE
Margaret D. Eberhardt
Richard D. Farman
Giselle Fernandez-Farrand
Lynda Boone Fetter
Henri R. Ford, MD
Peggy Galbraith
Herbert Gelfand
Ronald E. Gother
Carl Grushkin, MD
Mary Hart
Enrique Hernandez, Jr.
Marcia Wilson Hobbs
Linda Joyce Hodge
Gloria Holden
James S. Hunt
William H. Hurt
Francine Kaufman, MD
Arnold J. Kleiner
Thomas E. Larkin, Jr.
Sandra Lee
Alan B. Lewis, MD
Elizabeth Lowe
José Lozano
Carol Mancino Gregory S. Martin
Bonnie McClure
Alex Meneses
Joseph P. Miletich, MD, PhD
Caryll Sprague Mingst
Claudia Mirkin
Mary Adams O'Connell
Bradley J. Oltmanns
John D. Pettker
J. Kristoffer Popovich
Ron Preissman
Carmen A. Puliafito, M.D., MBA
Alan Purwin
Dayle Roath
Monica Rosenthal
Cheryl Saban, PhD
Theodore R. Samuels
Scott Sanford
Paul Schaeffer
Laura Schulte
Stuart E. Siegel, MD
Thomas M. Simms
Victoria Simms, PhD
Suzan Smigel
Corinna Smith
Russell K. Snow, Jr.
Joyce Bogart Trabulus
Esther Wachtell
Cathy Siegel Weiss
Michael R. Whalen
Roberta G. Williams, MD
Alyce Williamson
Alan J. Wilson
Jeffrey Worthe
Dick Zeigler


HONORARY MEMBERS

Richard Call, MD
Ernest O. Ellison
James M. Galbraith
Marion M. Jorgensen Walter B. Rose
H. Russell Smith
Judge David A. Thomas
Anne Wilson

Hospital Separates Conjoined Twins
Childrens Hospital's expertise was demonstrated in the separation of conjoined twins at our hospital. Regina and Renata Fierros, one-year old twins were joined at the abdomen and pelvis. A team of 80 caregivers at our hospital combined forces to intervene in their young lives to separate them, rebuild their young bodies, and care for them until they could return home for their recovery.