Rady Children's Hospital

Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego, the largest children's hospital in California, is a 449-bed pediatric care facility providing the largest source of comprehensive pediatric medical services in San Diego, southern Riverside and Imperial counties. Rady Children's is the only hospital in the San Diego area dedicated exclusively to pediatric healthcare and is the region's only designated pediatric trauma center. The hospital is verified by the American College of Surgeons as a Level I Pediatric Trauma Center. Rady Children's is the provider of care to more than 82 percent of the region's children. On October 10, 2010, Rady Children's opened the Acute Care Pavilion, a LEED-Certified (green) building that is home to the new Peckham Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, the Warren Family Surgical Center, and a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit that cares for the community's tiniest and most fragile babies. In 2001, Rady Children's formed a partnership with the University of California-San Diego to unify pediatric patient care, research, education, and community service programs. Rady Children's is a major pediatric clinical research center with more than 160 clinical trials and 250 other research projects underway. Our research collaborations include UC San Diego, the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, The Scripps Research Institute, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and Sanford Health. The hospital is nationally recognized for its medical excellence. Rady Children's is ranked in all 10 pediatric specialties surveyed by U.S. News & World Report ("Best Children's Hospitals", 2011–12).

In 2011, Rady Children's Hospital was ranked in all 10 specialties by U.S. New and World Report. The specialties were: Cancer, Cardiology & Heart Surgery, Diabetes & Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Neonatology, Nephrology, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology, and Urology.

On August 19, 1954, Rady Children's opened to receive its first 12 patients. Caring for a dozen patients may not seem that momentous, but in a town badly affected by the polio epidemic, Rady Children's was considered a godsend. Since then, nearly 2 million sick and injured children have been treated at the hospital.

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