Children's Hospital and Research Center Foundation

You can help save a child's life. Donations help sick kids with advanced medical treatment and find new cures to childhood cancer and other diseases.

Why do we exist?

Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland is 100% focused on kids. That’s what makes us so different from other hospitals. Contrary to common belief, kids are not just “little adults” – instead, their developing bodies and minds need highly specialized care.

With more than 30 pediatric sub-specialties, our experts are able to pinpoint problems quickly and design the most advanced and innovative treatments available. And we don’t stop there. Our internationally-renowned Research Institute investigates root causes of disease, pioneering new treatments and cures.

As the Bay Area’s only Level 1 Trauma Center, Children’s Hospital Oakland is where the most seriously injured kids go to be healed and made whole again.

Our expertise extends to our community’s most vulnerable kids. As the safety net hospital for thousands of children, Children’s Hospital Oakland has always been committed to providing the highest quality care to all kids, regardless of ability to pay.

At Children’s Hospital Oakland, we’re working to solve some of the world’s health problems through innovative treatments and research in areas such as childhood obesity, asthma, neurology, diabetes and cancer and prematurity.  And as a teaching hospital, we’re training the next generation of physicians, nurses and researchers that practice throughout the country and world. 

What have you accomplished?

At Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute we’ve pioneered treatmentsin  practically every pediatric specialty from adolescent medicine to urology.  Children's Hospital Oakland was the first to perform stem cell transplant in North America, curing sickle-cell anemia and thalassemia.. 

We cured Justine
Born with inherited blood disease alpha thalassemia, in 2001, Justine -- then just 4 years old -- was the first person in North America to be cured of the disorder following a bone marrow transplant at Children’s Hospital Oakland – a treatment that came out of research carried out by Children’s Research Institute. Since then, many more children have been given this life-saving procedure throughout the world. 

Christopher’s unexpected fall
One spring day, Christopher, a healthy and energetic 13 year old boy, was climbing trees with friends. A branch broke and Christopher crashed to the ground below. When paramedics reached the scene, they found him unresponsive and in grave condition. He was airlifted to Children’s Hospital Oakland where he underwent emergency surgery to relieve the pressure in his brain. Thanks to the care Christopher received at Children’s Hospital Oakland, he has now fully recovered, free to play and experience the joy of being a teen again. 

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