Peds Rehabilitation

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 special needs of our community’s tiniest patients. In 1967, they gave a gift that helped make this dream a reality and Miller Children’s Hospital (MCH) was born.

Today, three million people, including nearly 900,000 children live in Long Beach and surrounding communities – a dramatic increase since 1967. Now during the course of a year, MCH admits approximately 8,000 children, delivers more than 6,000 babies and logs 100,000 visits to the outpatient clinics.

One of only eight private, not-for-profit children’s hospitals in the state, MCH offers a complete range of primary and specialty-care services for children of all ages, as well as expectant mothers. It boasts more than 23 accredited specialty centers, including the Stramski Children’s Development Center and Bickerstaff Pediatric Family HIV Center, both supported in part by philanthropy.

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.