'CHLA promotes a culture of excellence and support. We’ve had amazing mentors and always had people who believed in us. They listened to our ideas and believed we could make a difference.'
Rocio Delgado, RN: "What’s amazing to me is that even now, nearly a decade after Camp CHLA, the hospital continues to support me in expanding my knowledge."
Judy Sherif has used her skills as a nurse, a pilot and a renegade to help build CHLA’s Emergency Transport Program into one of the largest in the nation.
Now celebrating its 20th anniversary, the RN Residency in Pediatrics debuted in January 1999 and quickly became the national model for new nurse graduate residency programs.
Two-year-old Gabriel Lopez had been hospitalized for more than a year, hooked up to a 200-pound machine. Then, on Christmas Eve, he got the gift of a lifetime.