Accomplishments

Childrens Hospital Los Angeles has been a leader in heart and lung care since the 1930s. Among the milestones we have achieved, we are proud to have been the first medical center to:

• perform pediatric heart surgery on the West Coast (1939)
• pioneer pediatric open heart surgery in Southern California (1954)
• perform a successful surgical treatment for transposition of arteries on the West Coast (1965).
• accomplish a double lung lobe transplant from living parents to a child with cystic fibrosis in the world (1993).