 Philanthropists Earl B. and Loraine Miller had a dream for the children of Long Beach. They wanted to help build a hospital that would meet the needs of its tiniest patients. In 1967, they gave a gift that helped make this dream a reality and Miller Children’s Hospital (MCH) was born.
 Today, for the first time in 37 years, MCH is expanding to meet the growing needs of the community. In the City of Long Beach and the surrounding South Bay area live three million people, including nearly 900,000 children. Over the course of a year, approximately 8,000 children are admitted to MCH, 7,000 babies are born and the outpatient clinics log 100,000 visits.
Here are some
"fun facts" about the new Miller Children’s Hospital inpatient pavilion:
- When complete, the pavilion will contain nearly 985 tons of steel rebar. Laid end-to-end, the rebar would span approximately 150 miles!
- The new building will contain approximately 1,400 tons of structural steel, which is equivalent to the weight of about seven Boeing 747 airplanes, nine Statue of Liberty monuments or 93 big-rigs.
- Nearly 45,000 tons of soil was excavated to prepare the site of the new pavilion. That’s almost the weight of the Titanic.
- The new pavilion's foundation contains 5,000 cubic yards of concrete – the equivalent of 581,818,181 iPod Shuffles, 3,125 Hummer H2’s or 1,700 elephants. It took 560 truckloads of cement nearly 24 hours to pour.
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Ruben Cepeda filling the Building for Children bucket.
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