Serving 33 Counties

Our hospital and trauma center serves a 33-county, 65,000-square-mile area with the help of the most comprehensive children's critical-care transport team in Northern California. The program...

Insights on more effective – and less-invasive – testing in the peds ER

In 2001 UC Davis Department of Emergency Medicine and pediatrics professor Nathan Kuppermann helped to create the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network or PECARN, the nation’s only federally-funded pediatric...

Level I trauma care for 65,000 square miles

At the time of this writing our trauma center is one of three in California with level I verification in both pediatric and adult trauma care from the American College of...

Prevention component

Our Trauma Prevention and Outreach program was established in 1996 to help decrease preventable death and injuries through education, research and outreach. Recent focus areas...

Excellence in life support

UC Davis Children’s Hospital and UC Davis Medical Center received the Gold Level ELSO Award for Excellence in Life Support last summer for our extracorporeal life support program, which provides lifesaving support for failing...