La Rabida Children's Hospital

The primary service provided by La Rabida is inpatient services to children with chronic illnesses and disabilities. In fiscal year 2024 we had 177 admissions and 11,260 patient days of care. La Rabida Children's Hospital serves these children regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, or ability to pay and is the most Medicaid dependent hospital in the State of Illinois, with more than 92% of its patient days of care rendered for Medicaid program beneficiaries. La Rabida Children's Hospital is a local expert and provides a site of training for residents and medical students. We train nearly 45 physician residents and medical students each year from the University of Chicago. La Rabida is also a training site for nursing, rehabilitation therapists, social work, psychology and respiratory therapy students. The hospital works to ensure that all hospital staff, both clinical and non-clinical, receives education on how to make the hospital a safe place for children. This includes quality initiatives for infection control, certification classes in CPR and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), running mock codes, classroom lectures for nurses, emergency preparedness training, and meetings on education and research. La Rabida also holds in-services as warranted for new products, policies and event-related occurrences.

The secondary services provided by La Rabida are various clinical outpatient services supportive of the special needs of our patients. These services include 6 treatment room visits, 13,631 physician clinic visits and 16,714 outpatient ancillary visits. The physician clinics are for children with chronic healthcare needs and their siblings. These services also include care coordinators, patient education, case management and numerous wrap around services such as nutrition and behavioral health. Included in the ancillary visits are physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy and infant development specialty visits.