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From High School to Health Care Leadership: Conference Held at CHLA Encourages Teens of Color to Become Tomorrow’s Leaders

July 29, 2024

The High School Healthcare and Leadership Conference provides seminars and hands-on workshops to encourage high schoolers of color to pursue health care careers.

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Press Release

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Recognized as National Surgical Quality Partner by American College of Surgeons

November 21, 2023

LOS ANGELES, November 21, 2023: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) has been recognized as a National Surgical Quality Partner (SQP) by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) for its long-standing

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Research and Breakthroughs

Can More Children’s Kidneys Be Spared?

November 12, 2021

Should surgeons perform partial nephrectomies in more children with kidney tumors—safely removing the mass, but leaving the child’s kidney in place?

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Philanthropy Benefits All CHLA Patients

December 5, 2019

Every patient who visits Children’s Hospital Los Angeles benefits from generous philanthropists like the Anderson Stewart Family Foundation. Their contributions support the hospital’s leading-edge

Our Patients

Celebrating ‘Super Seth’

March 2, 2018

Superheroes come in many shapes and sizes. In the movies and the comics, they’re most often big and strong, with bulging biceps and superpowers unlike anything we earthlings have ever seen. In real

Our Patients

When Toys Change Everything

May 18, 2017

One toy can make a world of difference. After nearly three years of extended stays at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, this was one of the most enduring takeaways for 6-year-old Valentino Ricciotti

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Our Patients

Have Big-Brother Hero Cape, Will Travel

November 28, 2016

“You’re doing a good job, buddy.” Those are the loving words 5-year-old Carter Holt whispers to his little brother, Forrest, whenever he leaves his bedside. For the last three years, Carter has been

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Our Patients

‘Ella the Great’ Strikes Out Cancer

October 29, 2015

Meet Ella, a 4-year-old fighting hepatoblastoma, an uncommon liver cancer, at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

Hospital News

Children's Hospital Los Angeles Leads Historic Medical Moment 3,000 Miles Away

June 10, 2015

An 18-person team from Children's Hospital Los Angeles traveled to Haiti to perform a conjoined twin separation on two girls who were conjoined at the abdomen.

Surgery Department News

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