Facts and Figures

Rady Children’s Hospital Main Campus

In fiscal year 2024,* Rady Children’s Hospital:

• • Provided care to 269,196 children.
  • Had 20,377 inpatient admissions.
  • Had 289,704 specialty outpatient physician visits.
  • Provided care to 1,735 trauma patients. (CY 2023)
  • Had 101,272 emergency care visits and 53,560 urgent care visits.
  • Performed 20,499 surgeries.
  • Performed 311 heart surgeries and attended to 27,488 outpatient visits at our cardiology clinics. To date, we have performed 60 heart transplants. More on our Heart Institute.
  • Cared for 329 newly diagnosed cancer patients, attended to 17,562 outpatient visits, and provided 34 blood and marrow transplants, and 5 CAR T-cell treatments at our Peckham Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders.
  • Provided trauma counseling to 570 children and parents at our Chadwick Center for Children & Families.
  • Evaluated or treated 479 children at our Autism Discovery Institute.
  • Had 80,315 visits to our orthopedic and rehabilitation clinics, including the 360 Sports Medicine program. More on our Orthopedics & Scoliosis Center.

More to Know:

• Rady Children’s 43-bed Helen Bernardy Center is the only pediatric skilled nursing facility in California. In a home-like environment, medically fragile and developmentally disabled children receive round-the-clock care.
• Rady Children’s Canine Care Program has nearly 30 volunteer dogs. Dogs and their handlers are on Rady Children’s campus five days a week throughout the year.
• The Ronald McDonald House, adjacent to Rady Children’s, is available to families whose children are undergoing tests or treatment.
• Patients at Rady Children’s use more than 2,900 crutches each year.
• Each year, about 127,000 intravenous (IV) sets are used at Rady Children’s.
• Rady Children’s gives out more than 21,000 popsicles a year to patients.
• Rady Children’s playrooms go through about 9,900 packs of crayons a year.
• Rady Children’s gives out about 280,000 Bandaids.
• Rady Children’s uses more than 1.6 million pounds of linen (sheets, pillowcases, towels) each year.
• Rady Children’s uses about 880,000 diapers each year.
• Rady Children’s uses about 131,000 oxisensors each year.
• Rady Children’s uses nearly 12 million exam gloves each year.
• Rady Children’s has gowns to fit all sizes, from infants and children to teenagers.
• A blood pressure cuff for a preemie’s tiny arm is about the size of an adult’s finger.