Children's Hospital Central California is a 338 bed pediatric hospital located on the San Joaquin River

San Joaquin River

The San Joaquin River is the largest river of Central California in the United States. At over long, the river starts in the high Sierra Nevada, and flows through a rich agricultural region known as the San Joaquin Valley before reaching Suisun Bay, San Francisco Bay, and the Pacific Ocean...

 just north of Fresno, California

Fresno, California

Fresno is a city in central California, United States, the county seat of Fresno County. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 510,365, making it the fifth largest city in California, the largest inland city in California, and the 34th largest in the nation...

, USA. The hospital has a 45000 square miles (116,549.5 km²) service area covering most of California's central San Joaquin Valley

San Joaquin Valley

The San Joaquin Valley is the area of the Central Valley of California that lies south of the Sacramento – San Joaquin River Delta in Stockton...

. There are more than 500 doctors on the medical staff. It is a UCSF-affiliated teaching hospital. The hospital was the first children's hospital west of the Rockies

Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains are a major mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch more than from the northernmost part of British Columbia, in western Canada, to New Mexico, in the southwestern United States...

to receive Magnet Nursing Certification, the highest standard of nursing certification in America.

It is located at 9300 Valley Children's Place in Madera, California.