Emergency Department & Trauma Center

In collaboration with Long Beach Memorial, the children of the Long Beach community have access to leading pedaitric emergency and trauma care. The emergency department is an Emergency Department Approved for Pediatrics (EDAP), certified by L.A. County, treating more than 23,000 infants, children and adolescents each year. Board-certified emergency medicine pediatricians and the pediatric emergency care team are certified in Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS). Once a child becomes stable or needs further specialized care, the emergency department team smoothly transfers patients based on their acuity or needs to one of the specialized general pediatrics, NICU, PICU or hematology/oncology care centers.

The emergency department provides a 24-hour multi-disciplinary and multi-specialty approach for consultation, diagnostic testing and medical management of infants, children and young adults with urgent and emergent medical, surgical and traumatic conditions. The emergency department care team, are all specially trained in pediatrics, and a dedicated emergency department Child Life Specialist is on-hand to patients and their families to help lessen anxieties and explain what is often a first-time hospital experience.

There is a special kid-friendly section of the emergency department that is exclusively for kids and their families, designed specifically for emergency pediatric care.

Miller Children’s Stands Apart

• Miller Children’s Hospital is approved by LA County as a designated Emergency Department Approved for Pediatrics (EDAP), one of the few hospitals in the area to provide an exclusive area for kids, including resources such as 24-hour social services.
• Board-certified emergency medicine physicians trained in pediatrics, along with nurses trained in pediatric emergency care and a trauma response team, manage the emergency care of more than 23,000 children each year.
• Miller Children’s is the regional children’s hospital that trains the majority of Los Angeles County paramedics in pediatric emergency care through the paramedic training program.