Hospital Meets $25-Million Goal for New Center

Los Angeles Childrens Hospital has surpassed a $25-million fund-raising goal in a campaign to build a $55.9-million surgical center and operations plant, officials said Friday.

Since the goal has been met, the hospital’s board of directors has agreed to allocate the balance of the project cost from reserve funds. The new center will give the hospital a new face and a new entrance. It will include a main lobby, admitting area and blood donor rooms, as well as a new central plant. The second floor will include 14 state-of-the-art surgical suites.

“This successful fund-raising effort will serve to replace 30-year-old facilities, enhance world-class surgical teams and provide the space and equipment necessary to perform surgical procedures from the routine to the most complex on the same floor, and in the same building,” said Dr. Kathryn Anderson, the hospital’s chief of surgery.