Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is a 386-bed pediatric academic medical center and one of the nation’s premier destinations for complex pediatric care, delivering more high-acuity services than any other children’s hospital in California. Supported by more than 8,000 team members and 1,000 medical staff, CHLA manages nearly 17,000 surgeries, 747,000 patient visits and more than 18,000 inpatient admissions each year, impacting one in five children across Los Angeles County through its hospital, affiliations and community partnerships. The hospital is a national leader in pediatric oncology, heart care, neurosciences, orthopedics and transplantation, operating one of the country’s largest pediatric liver transplant programs and providing nearly half of all complex pediatric care in Los Angeles County. As a major safety-net provider, CHLA cares for a predominantly Medi-Cal–covered patient population, reinforcing its commitment to equitable access. Education and research are central to its mission, with the largest pediatric residency program at a freestanding children’s hospital in the western U.S., 32 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-accredited programs, and a research enterprise that supports nearly 600 active clinical trials and $51 million in annual National Institutes of Health funding. Recent innovations include becoming the West Coast’s leading pediatric provider of FDA-approved cell and gene therapies, launching a groundbreaking universal infant–family mental health program supported by a historic $25 million gift, and establishing the first-of-its-kind Chuck Lorre Pediatric Health Education Institute. CHLA continues to accelerate pediatric health tech innovation through KidsX, a 25-hospital international accelerator network enabling more than 80 new technologies. Additional advances include opening a cardiac imaging suite featuring the only low-field MRI in a U.S. pediatric hospital and achieving the nation’s best one- and three-year outcomes for pediatric liver transplantation.
