During Your Stay

In Westwood, UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital is located on the third and fifth floors of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Depending on your child’s age, condition and the level of care required, he or she will be admitted to one of the following units:

  • Acute-care pediatrics unit (3F/5 West) — 3rd and 5th floors
  • Pediatric intensive care unit (PICU)/pediatric cardiothoracic intensive care unit (PCTICU) — 5th floor
  • Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) — 5th floor

In Santa Monica at UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center, your child will be admitted to one of the following units: 

  • Acute-care pediatrics unit (6NW) — 6th floor
  • Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) — 2nd floor, within Labor & Delivery

Contact Information

If you are a parent/guardian of a child cared for in acute-care pediatrics or the PICU/PCTICU, you may call your child’s room directly or call the nursing station and your call will be transferred to your child’s room. Parents of infants in the NICU may call the unit’s nursing station.

We are here to work as a team with you.

When you need to leave your child, feel free to call us at any time to check on his or her progress:

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center:

UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center: