UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals, San Francisco and Oakland

Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford (LPCH) is a children’s hospital which is part of the Stanford University system. It is located adjacent to the campus at 725 Welch Road, Palo Alto, California. It was founded in 1991. It is staffed by over 650 physicians and 4,750 staff and volunteers.[1] It specializes in the care of babies, children, adolescents, and expectant mothers.[2]
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford was founded in 1991 after a $40 million donation in 1986 from David and Lucile Packard, and since then LPCH has become one of the nation’s most prominent children’s hospitals.[3] In 1996 LPCH merged with the Stanford University Medical Center, and the Lucile Salter Packard Foundation was established as an independent public charity to ensure a continued source of dedicated funding and support for the health and well being of children.
A Vox Media article in 2017 singled the hospital out for having among the least transparent billing practices in the United States after it unexpectedly charged a family $23,795.47 excess beyond insurance for a single MRI scan in 2016.[4] The average cost of an MRI scan is $1,119 in the United States and $215 in Australia.