Children's Hospital Los Angeles serves over 700,000 children and adolescents each year in its emergency room, inpatient, outpatient, and specialty care programs.

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is ranked in the top 5 Children’s Hospitals in the United States.
Here, the most sick, most seriously injured children from all over the world are treated. As one of only five pediatric Level I Trauma Centers in California, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles serves over 62,000 patients each year in the emergency room alone.

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is a non-profit hospital which provides approximately $1.5 million annually in “charity care” – that is, losses incurred from patients who are under-insured or un-insured but still receive life-saving treatment.  The majority of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles’s patients are insured by the state of California under the MediCal or Healthy Families programs.  Research is showing that incorporating creative arts and expressive therapies in a medical environment can help with physical, mental, and emotional healing. HARK helps to make this even more possible with the services they provide.

The Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Artists Program provides art and music to the inpatient community , and at bedside. Most basic insurance covers medical necessities, but art therapy, music therapy, and other creative arts and alternative therapies are not paid for.