Conducting Clinical Studies at Two Sites:

Childrens Hospital Los Angeles and Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA
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The CPPCRN Los Angeles Center is unique in having to conduct CPCCRN studies at two major Universities in Los Angeles; the University of Southern California (USC) and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).

Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (USC) and Mattel Children’s Hospital (UCLA) are partners in this endeavor and are considered as a single center within the CPCCRN.

This partnership pose a unique challenge in research operations. Allocating logistics and creating processes that will create an efficient research operation between the two sites is a challenge.

We have created processes that integrate CPCCRN research studies into the systems of the two hospitals so that future studies can be conducted efficiently.

Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (USC)

The idea of a Children’s Hospital Started in 1895 and the first structure was built in 1913.
Organization: Private, Nonprofit, Free standing Hospital
Trauma: Childrens Hospital Los Angeles is designated as a Level I Pediatric Trauma Center
Community Outreach: One of the most comprehensive programs for adolescent medicine in the nation, addressing such issues as acute and chronic illness, violence prevention, HIV-prevention and state of the art AIDS treatment, high-risk and homeless teens, drug prevention and treatment, pregnancy and teen parenting.
Location: located at corner of Sunset and Vermont at near Downtown Los Angeles
Patients: Most come from Los Angeles County; others 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. Our database have large percentage of different ethnicities.
Statistics
286 Bed capacity
Treats more than 58,000 children a year in its Emergency Department.
It admits more than 11,000 children a year to the hospital, and nearly 50 percent of those admissions are children under four years of age.
There are more than 285,000 visits a year to its 29 outpatient clinics and laboratories; nearly 5,000 visits at community sites through its Division of Adolescent Medicine.
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles has 33 pediatric subspecialties.


Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA

UCLA has several Medical Centers, Westwood, Santa Monica and Harbor City. Mattel Children’s Hospital is located at the Westwood Campus.

UCLA Medical Center - Westwood, 600 beds
Level-1 trauma center,
1,500 physicians and 3,500 nurses, therapists, technologists and support personnel.


It has affiliations with Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Martin Luther King/Drew University, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Olive View Medical Center. UCLA Medical Center year after year is ranked among the leaders in pediatrics by U.S. News and World Reports annual survey of "America's Best Hospitals."

Mattel Children's Hospital

Mattel Children’s Hospital is located at the 3rd floor of UCLA Medical Center in Westwood.
In 1995, Mattel Children’s Hospital became a member of the “National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions” and was classified as a "hospital within a hospital."
In 1998, the hospital was renamed the Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA in recognition of a generous pledge to the hospital by Mattel, Inc.
By 2008, the Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA will be housed in a new state-of-the-art medical facility UCLA plans to build to replace the current UCLA Medical Center. Construction of the new medical complex, designed by renowned architect I.M. Pei, began in 2000.
The outpatient Children's Health Center: serves more than 42,0000 patients each year. It includes an eight-bed procedure area for outpatient chemotherapy, medication infusions, and blood transfusions.


The inpatient facility includes:
20-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
23-bed level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
77-bed refurbished ward