Our Mission & Vision

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.