Rady Children's Hospital And Health Center history

1961: The Hospital expands to 90 beds.

1963: The Child Development Clinic opens.

1965: The Speech and Hearing Clinic opens.

1972: Rady Children’s purchase St Mary’s Convalescent Hospital, now called the Helen Bernardy Center for Medically Fragile Children.

1973: Children’s Hospital Emergency Transport (CHET) begins.

1975: The Hospital expands to 103 beds.

1983: Rady Children’s opens a surgical wing, the Jean Hahn Surgical Pavilion.

1984: Rady Children’s is designated San Diego County’s only pediatric Trauma Center.

1985: A center for child protection opens, now called the Chadwick Center for Children and Families.

1987: San Diego Regional Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) program opens.

1992: The Hospital unveils it’s new logo (pictured right), which features the iconic kite used in future Rady Children’s logos.

1993: A new pavilion, now called the Rose Pavilion, opens, increasing our size to 220 beds.

1995: The Jane and Norman Neely Rehabilitation Institute, the outcomes center (now called the Blair L. Sadler Center for Quality Outcomes) and the Center for Healthier Communities for Children all open.

2001: UCSD, Rady Children’s and Children’s Specialists of San Diego formalize their partnership to unify pediatric patient care, research, education and community service programs.

2004: The Hospital expands to 248 beds.

2009: Rady Children’s, now a 261-bed facility, is honored by United States News & World Report with six specialties ranked in the top 30.

2010: The new Acute Care Pavilion opens, making Rady Children’s the largest pediatric hospital in California (for number of patients seen).

2011: Rady Children’s, now a 442-bed facility, is ranked among the nation’s best by United States News & World Report in all 10 specialties surveyed.

2012: Once again, Rady Children’s is ranked in all 10 pediatric specialties surveyed by United States News & World Report.

2013: For the third consecutive year, Rady Children’s is ranked in all 10 pediatric specialties surveyed by United States News & World Report.

2014: The Hospital expands to 520 beds.

2015: Doctor Donald Kearns named president and CEO of Rady Children’s.

2016: The Rady Pediatric Genomics and Systems Medicine Institute at Rady Children’s is renamed the Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine.

2017: Rady Children’s achieves Magnet® designation, a recognition given by the American Nurses’ Credentialing Center (ANCC) to hospitals that satisfy a set of criteria that measures the strength and quality of their patient care.

Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine sequences more than 1,000 genomes. (July 20, 2018)

2019: Patrick Frias, M.D., starts as Rady Children’s Hospital’s new president and CEO. Ernest & Evelyn Rady commit $200 million in matching funds to reimagine the Hospital’s campus and infrastructure.

2020: Rady Children’s Hospital, Naval Medical Center San Diego first to administer COVID-19 vaccine.

Named among the nation’s “Most Wired” health care organizations by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). Voted as the Best Hospital in San Diego for 2021 by the San Diego Reader.