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First
children's hospital in Orange County*
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First in Orange County
to open an emergency room for children
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CHOC surgeons are the first in the world to successfully complete
a
pulmonary resection in a child using a robotic system
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Nation's first and only
American Diabetes Association-certified pediatric diabetes
program
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First
in the nation to collaborate with the Boys & Girls
Club to have a pediatric health care clinic on site at the
club
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First in the nation to use the LICOX, a brain oxygen monitor,
in young children with traumatic brain injuries
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Largest baclofen
pump implant program in the nation for treatment of spasticity
and dystonia
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Conducted the nation's first balloon dilation of
a cardiac lesion, now a routine cardiac procedure
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Only US site
selected to evaluate the efficacy of a genetically engineered
recombinant factor XIII (for clotting disorders)
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The only dedicated
Neuroscience Unit in California
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First in California to test Strata
Valve for treatment of hydrocephalus in children
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First in Orange
County to perform fetal MRIs
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Only West Coast facility, and one
of a few in the nation, to serve as beta test site for Nanogen
technology
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Only West Coast facility, and one of only four in the
nation, to receive training grant from the National Heart Lung
and Blood
Institute
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One of only five facilities worldwide to receive NIH teaching
grant to share findings with international researchers
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First and
only facility in the nation to use high frequency ventilation
in transporting critically ill children
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First in the nation
to combine high frequency ventilation and nitric oxide in transporting
critically ill children
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First California children's hospital to
perform robotic surgery
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First in California to perform unrelated
cord blood transplants
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Performed the first bone marrow transplant
in Orange County
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Only facility in Orange County to perform pediatric
bone marrow transplantation
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The only Cord
Blood Bank in Orange
County & one of only a
few in the nation approved by the National Marrow Donor Program
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The
first and only to perform pediatric open heart surgery in Orange
County
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Orange County's first and only pediatric heart program
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First
to offer the complete unifoculization for Tetralogy of Fallot
and Pulmonary Atresia
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First in Orange County to perform the
Sano Procedure for cardiac patients
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First in Orange County to
perform Double Switch surgery for Congenital Transposition of
the Great Vessels
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First to offer single stage repair of the neonate
with Pulmonary Atresia and Ventricular Septal Defect
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Pioneered
the use of the Amplatzer device
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Performs the most fetal echocardiography's
in Orange County
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The only children's hospital on the West Coast
to offer the Vitalstim Therapy (with the most certified therapists)
for children
with swallowing disorders
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Only Orange County facility approved by the Department
of Health Services to teach EDAP (emergency department approved
for
pediatrics) conferences
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Orange County's only dedicated
pediatric hematology/oncology unit
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First in the nation to collaborate
with pool builders, designers and manufacturers to improve pool
safety through builder
education (as part of hospital's nationally recognized drowning
prevention program.
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Only hospital in the nation to have a mobile
safety house geared to providing home safety tips for parents and caregivers
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Provides
the only year-round fitting station in Orange County for child
passenger safety seats (as part of the hospital's
child passenger safety program)
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Offers the most certified child passenger safety
technicians/instructors in Orange County
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The first
and only mobile asthma
unit in Orange County
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Enrolls the highest
number of children in insurance programs in the state, increasing
access to medical care
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The first and only hospital in the country
to develop a respiratory care practitioner new grad residency
program and a LVN
new grad residency program in an effort to recruit and retain the best
in the field
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Helped develop first, nationally recognized nurse training
curriculum for hematology/oncology nursing
- First out-patient facility in Orange County to offer Reach
Out and Read
program on site: Purpose is to provide early literacy exposure
to
children as young as 6 months by offering a new book at each
visit,
anticipatory guidance by a pediatrician, and volunteer mentors
for
literacy.
*CHOC serves a pediatric population of approximately 1,156,190
children (0-18); Orange County is the 5th most populous county
in the United States.
