Children's Hospital Pediatric history

2004 - Surgeons perform the hospital’s first small bowel transplant.

2005 - A groundbreaking ceremony is held to celebrate construction of a new $636 million Marion and John E. Anderson Pavilion, to be built next to Children’s Hospital.

2006 - Eight local high school students are the first to participate in LA-HIP (Latino and African American High School Internship Program), opening more opportunities in research to minorities.

2007 - The Vision Center, an international center for children with complex eye diseases, opens.

2009 - Children’s Hospital creates the Center for Personalized Medicine, which coordinates, supports and expands basic and translational research in genomics, proteomics, bioinformatics, molecular genetics, molecular microbiology and cytogenetics.

2010 - Children’s Hospital’s 460,000-square-foot Marion and John E. Anderson Pavilion is completed.

On July 17, 2011, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles officially opens the 317-bed Marion and John E. Anderson Pavilion.

2012 – Children’s Hospital completes the Living Proof campaign, the most successful fundraising effort in the hospital’s history.

2014 – The hospital continues its streak, ranking among the top five children’s hospitals in the country for the third year in a row, and is again the only hospital on the West Coast to make United States News and World Report’s Honor Roll of children’s hospitals.

The hospital welcomes new president and CEO Paul S. Viviano in August 2015.

In 2016, the announcement to accelerate our facilities and programs grew with an additional $760 million investment.

2017 – CHLA is again ranked among the top 10 children’s hospitals in the nation, gaining one spot at No.

2019 – CHLA jumps one spot to No.

Samantha Mosser, MBA Samantha Mosser is the President and a Board of Director of ACCESSbank; she joined the bank in January 2020.

2021 - For the third straight year, CHLA is ranked the No.