Children’s Health/Pediatrics:

Pediatrics Sub-Specialty Services: Harbor-UCLA is a leading teaching, patient care and research center focusing on the full range of children’s health concerns. The Harbor-UCLA Faculty Practice Plan currently serves as a major referral resource for managed care organizations seeking local access to highly skilled Pediatrics sub-specialty services. Patients funded by California Children’s Services (CCS), as well as patients with PPO coverage and self-pay patients, can also access our Pediatric sub-specialists in the Harbor-UCLA Professional Building.

 Our menu of Pediatric sub-specialty offerings includes the following disciplines:       

Allergy & Immunology    Infectious Diseases
CardiologyMedical Genetics
Critical Care  Neonatology 
EndocrinologyNephrology
GastroenterologyNeurology
Hematology/Oncology    

 

 

 

 

 

In addition, our Department of Surgery includes Pediatric sub-specialty offerings in the following fields: 

  • Pediatric Ophthalmology 
  • Pediatric Surgery

Our Physician Directory, contains a current listing of our Pediatric sub-specialists with active private practice involvements.

Pediatric Critical Care Services at Harbor-UCLA: Harbor-UCLA operates the only Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in the South Bay area, providing care for newborns, infants, children and adolescents. This C.C.S. certified unit features a multi-disciplinary treatment team representing the full range of Critical Care and Pediatrics sub-specialties. Care is directed by faculty with board certification in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and the nurses are specially trained to care for critically ill infants and children. Typical conditions treated in this highly specialized unit include head injuries and other trauma, seizures, life-threatening infections, respiratory emergencies, and heart problems requiring hospital-based intervention. This unit is headed up by Richard Mink, M.D., Chief, Division of Pediatric Critical Care.

Harbor-UCLA also operates the only C.C.S. certified Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in the greater South Bay area. This 16-bed unit serves as a regional referral center for critically ill newborns and other children during the first month of life. As an integral component of a major teaching center, Harbor-UCLA’s Level III Neonatal ICU offers immediate on-site access to highly skilled Neonatologists, as well as the full range of Pediatric and Critical Care sub-specialties. This unit is headed up by Usha Raj, M.D., Chief, Division of Neonatology.

Both the Pediatric ICU and the Neonatal ICU maintain highly skilled Emergency Transport Teams, designed to provide immediate response linkages to community hospital Emergency Services and extend our programs’ life saving services to critically ill children throughout the region, irrespective of ability to pay for care. Increasingly, both units are making their resources available to commercially insured patients via contractual arrangements with leading managed care plans.

For further information regarding the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Harbor-UCLA call: Division of Neonatology (310) 222-1969.

For further information regarding the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Harbor-UCLA call: Division of Pediatric Critical Care Services (310) 222-4002.  


 
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