Overview
Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego is the largest children's hospital in California and provides services to the San Diego, southern Riverside and Imperial counties. The hospital has 524 beds and provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to patients aged 0–21. It is affiliated with the UC San Diego School of Medicine. Rady Children's also features a Level I Pediatric Trauma Center.
In 2020, Rady Children's Hospital was ranked in all 10 specialties by U.S. News & World Report. The specialties include:
Cancer,
Cardiology & Heart Surgery,
Diabetes & Endocrinology,
Gastroenterology,
Neonatology,
Nephrology,
Neurology & Neurosurgery,
Orthopedics,
Pulmonology, and
Urology.
History
Plans for the Hospital began in 1951 when the Board of the San Diego Society for Crippled Children initiated construction plans for a new children's hospital. In 1953, Children's Hospital Auxiliary was formed and, later that year, groundbreaking took place.
On August 19, 1954, the Children's Hospital of San Diego opened to receive its first 12 patients. Since then, nearly 2 million sick and injured children have been treated at the hospital.
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