Guide to San Diego's Hospitals

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Rady Children’s Hospital–San Diego

Since Rady Children’s Hospital–San Diego first opened its doors in 1954, its mission has been “to restore, sustain and enhance the health and developmental potential of children through excellence in care, education, research and advocacy.” Its commitment to medical excellence is demonstrated through its state-of-the-art equipment, comprehensive programs and services and superior medical team. Rady Children’s Hospital not only treats children when they are sick, it seeks out ways to help keep them well.

Quality pediatric care requires specialized training and a special sensitivity that is perfected through caring for children 100 percent of the time. Rady Children’s specially qualified clinical staff and affiliated physicians provide a full continuum of care, from mild illness and injury to the most severe medical emergency.

In addition to caring for children at the main campus in Kearny Mesa, Rady Children’s has 13 neighborhood centers that offer primary care and specialized services. It is also active in numerous community outreach programs, including health education, early intervention and counseling, child abuse prevention and child safety issues.

SPECIALTIES AND RESEARCH

Rady Children’s is the only pediatric teaching hospital in the region for pediatric doctors, nurses, pharmacists and all other pediatric-specific clinical trainees. It’s the region’s only Level I pediatric trauma center. Rady Children’s also provides all of the non-neonatal California Children’s Services specialty care services in the region and is the only Level 3c full-scope, regional neonatal intensive care unit facility in San Diego, caring for the sickest and most medically fragile babies.

SERVICES

Rady Children’s offers a wide variety of services, including primary, specialty and urgent care services throughout the county. It offers a broad range of services, from speech, physical and occupational therapies to child guidance and child protective services. Rady Children’s also offers a healthcare referral service that serves as a community resource center for families, physicians and agencies. Rady Children’s has a convalescent hospital that offers a homelike environment, where medically fragile and developmentally disabled kids can receive roundthe- clock care.

HONORS AND RECOGNITION

In 2006, Rady Children’s Trauma Center was selected by the National Foundation for Trauma Care as one of the top five trauma centers in the nation with regard to trauma disaster preparedness. There are only 12 children’s hospitals in the nation with this level of service and distinction.
Rady Children’s was recognized in February 2007 by Child magazine as one of the top 25 pediatric hospitals in the country, and the orthopedics department was honored as one of the top five pediatric orthopedic services.
Rady Children’s General Electric 64-slice Lightspeed CT Scanner was the first such scanner to be installed in San Diego County, and the first in a children’s hospital worldwide.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Main Phone: 858-576-1700
Customer and Referral Services: 800-788-9029
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