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CONTACT: Patricia Aidem
Providence Tarzana Medical Center
(818) 496-4780
patricia.aidem@providence.org
Lorenzo Benet
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
323-361-4823
lbenet@chla.usc.edu
Providence Tarzana Medical Center and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
partner to enhance pediatric care in the San Fernando Valley Area
TARZANA (July 1, 2015) – Children in the San Fernando Valley now have access to an enhanced
level of pediatric care, under the terms of an innovative agreement between Providence Tarzana
Medical Center and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and its physicians.
Beginning today, CHLA’s renowned specialists will staff Providence Tarzana’s Pediatrics Department
inpatient unit as well as its pediatric and neonatal intensive care units – known as the PICU and
NICU. Staff will be available 24 hours a day, allowing families access to high-quality specialty care
for their children, closer to home.
“Our new partnership is an important step forward that will bring a new level of quality care for our
patients and their families,” said Dale Surowitz, Providence Tarzana’s chief executive. “This is a
breakthrough in healthcare for the San Fernando Valley and adjacent communities, providing
infants and children in-house specialist care round-the-clock.”
There is no children’s hospital in the vast area served by Providence Tarzana pediatrics – a region of
nearly 3 million people that includes the San Fernando, Santa Clarita and Conejo valleys and Simi
Valley and is roughly the population of Chicago.
“It is an honor for us to be able to partner with Providence Tarzana Medical Center to ensure
children have access to a winning team so close to home,” said Richard D. Cordova, FACHE,
president and chief executive officer of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. “For Valley families, this
will mean they will have access to a new level of inpatient care for their children right in their own
backyard.”
Under the terms of an agreement finalized in April, CHLA Medical Group will assume medical
leadership of Providence Tarzana Medical Center’s three pediatric units, transitioning the Valley
hospital to an innovative care model that will expand access to a wide spectrum of specialists and
subspecialists.
“Our physicians are consistently ranked amongst the best in the country and earn high accolades in
the national and regional surveys that evaluate the nation’s top doctors,” said Larry Harrison, chief
executive officer of the CHLA Medical Group. “By bringing our services to the inpatient units at
Providence Tarzana, more Valley families can benefit from the convenience of having direct access
to specialized care for children without needing to come to the main campus of Children’s Hospital
Los Angeles.”
Providence Tarzana and CHLA sought this partnership to enhance the care Tarzana provides for
children and their families, closer to their homes.
Providence Tarzana Medical Center patient, Kelli Brodie delivered son Conrad Brodie on March 30
at Providence Tarzana. The infant was born with an intestinal defect and required immediate
transport to CHLA to benefit from a level of inpatient care that now will be provided at Providence
Tarzana.
“As a new mother, it was a little traumatic,” said Brodie, a television news executive. “I couldn’t be
with him, but I knew he was in the right hands.” Under the new collaboration, neonatal and other
physician experts will be available at Tarzana, minimizing the need to separate babies from their
mothers so quickly after birth to receive acute neonatal care.
Additional hospitalists, intensivists and neonatologists will be in the hospital 24/7, providing
’round-the-clock care for patients. This partnership began in 2013 and until now has focused on
hospital staff training and education. With this new development, children will receive a higher
level of care during all inpatient hospital stays at Providence Tarzana.
The Providence Tarzana Emergency Department and those at its sister hospitals, Providence Saint
Joseph Medical Center in Burbank and Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, are
certified to provide pediatric care. If necessary, young emergency patients arriving at Saint Joseph
and Holy Cross may be transported to Tarzana, a designated Pediatrics Medical Center, in a
specially equipped family-friendly ambulance for inpatient care.
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About Providence Health & Services
Providence Health & Services, Southern California, is a Catholic not-for-profit, mission-driven healthcare system.
Providence Southern California operates five award-winning hospitals and a comprehensive, fully-integrated network of
primary care clinics, urgent care centers, home care, TrinityCare and TrinityKids Care hospice as well as Providence High
School. Providence is anchored locally by Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, Providence Saint Joseph
Medical Center in Burbank, Providence Tarzana Medical Center and Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Centers
in Torrance and San Pedro. With more than 3,400 physicians, Providence provides coordinated primary and specialty care
through an array of physician groups and individual providers including Providence Medical Institute and physician groups
in the South Bay, the West Valley and Santa Clarita. Providence affiliate, Facey Medical Group, provides primary and
specialized care in the San Fernando, Santa Clarita and San Gabriel valleys. For more information, visit
California.providence.org.
About Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Children's Hospital Los Angeles has been named the best children’s hospital in California and among the top 10 in the
nation for clinical excellence with its selection to the prestigious U.S. News & World Report Honor Roll. Children’s
Hospital is home to The Saban Research Institute, one of the largest and most productive pediatric research facilities in
the United States. The Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Medical Group includes more than 540 physicians which provide
coverage for five clinical departments and 32 pediatric medical divisions. Children’s Hospital is also one of America's
premier teaching hospitals through its affiliation since 1932 with the Keck School of Medicine of the University of
Southern California. For more information, visit CHLA.org.
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