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Life-Saving Care Close to Home

UC Davis Team Saved Piper’s Life

The pediatric gastroenterology team at UC Davis provided expert care and treatment for Piper, who was diagnosed with celiac disease.

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Why Choose UC Davis For Your Child

U.S. News ranked UC Davis Children’s Hospital among the nation’s best in five pediatric specialties in 2024-25, including neonatology, nephrology, pediatric pulmonology, pediatric and adolescent behavioral health and *orthopedics (*with Shriners Children’s Northern California).

It is the Central Valley’s only level I pediatric trauma center, level IV neonatal intensive care unit, level I ACS-verified children’s surgery center, and fetal care and treatment center providing care for children in 33 counties covering 65,000 square miles.

Comprehensive Range of Pediatric Services

UC Davis Children’s Hospital is the Sacramento region’s only nationally ranked comprehensive hospital for children, serving infants, children and adolescents with primary, subspecialty and critical care.

With physicians across more than 25 subspecialties, it provides the region’s greatest diversity of pediatric subspecialties.

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Pediatric patient getting a well care check-up

Pediatric primary Care Close to Home

UC Davis pediatric primary care is available for your child’s everyday health care needs. Find a pediatrician or family medicine physician in a clinic near you! 

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Children’s Miracle Network

UC Davis Children’s Hospital is one of the nation’s first hospitals to join the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals (CMN), an international nonprofit dedicated to raising funds for, and awareness of children’s hospitals. Donations create miracles by funding medical care, research, equipment and programs that save and improve the lives of our children.

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Ranked among the nation’s best children’s hospitals

U.S. News & World Report ranked UC Davis Children’s Hospital among the best in neonatology, nephrology, orthopedics*, pediatric & adolescent behavioral health, and pulmonology & lung surgery. (*Together with Shriners Children’s Northern California)

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Re-verified level I Children’s Surgery Center

Our hospital is verified as a level I Children’s Surgery Center by the American College of Surgeons. Level I centers have children’s surgeons in every discipline, with pediatric anesthesiologists and operating rooms available 24 hours a day.

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Hope for families with fetal syndrome diagnoses

A parent-founded nonprofit organization, providing information for families facing fetal syndrome diagnoses.

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Recognized for excellence in life support

UC Davis Medical Center has been recognized for exceptional commitment to evidence-based processes and quality measures, training, patient satisfaction, and clinical care.

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