Our Care

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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

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