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North Tower
South Tower
West Tower
Hospital General Knowledge
100

This CHOC location includes multiple towers — the North Tower, Bill Holmes Tower, West Tower,  and supporting buildings. 

What is the Rady's Main Campus?

100

If you’re feeling hungry or need a snack during your lunch, this is the best place to go in the North Tower.

What is the Cafeteria?

100

This floor of the South Tower is where you’ll find Seacrest Studios, the Family Resource Center, and the Pre-Teen & Teen Rooms.

What is the 2nd floor of the South Tower?

100

This area of CHOC’s West Tower is home to essential support departments like Materials Management, Central Distribution, Security, EVS, and even the Healthcare Career Academy — all working behind the scenes to keep the hospital running smoothly.

What is the West Tower lower level (basement)?

100

This essential team keeps the hospital clean, sanitized, and safe for everyone — and they’re based in the West Tower’s lower level.

What is Environmental Services (EVS)?

200

What should hospital staff and volunteers do when they hear a code announcement?

Pay attention to the code to ensure their safety and follow proper emergency procedures, such as avoiding elevators or knowing how to act in case of a fire.

200

Where in CHOC is the Sleep Lab located?

What is the Basement of the North Tower?


200

If you need your blood drawn for lab tests, you’ll head to this department located in the basement of the South Tower.

What is the Outpatient Laboratory?

200

 On which floor and in which tower at CHOC is the Healthcare Career Academy classroom located?

What is the lower level (Basement) of the West Tower?

200

This hospital unit’s acronym, PACU, stands for the place where patients recover immediately after anesthesia.

What is the Post Anesthesia Care Unit?

300

This tower at CHOC is divided into West and East sides, each housing different patient care units.

What is the North Tower?

300

f you need to locate the Inpatient Pharmacy at CHOC, which floor and tower should you go to?

What is the Basement of the North Tower?

300

This floor at the South Tower is home to Admissions, Customer Service, the Emergency Department, and Radiology.

What is the 1st floor of the South Tower?

300

You won’t find diagnostic imaging or a sleep lab here — instead, this floor provides inpatient treatment for mental and behavioral health.

What is the 3rd floor of the West Tower?

300

If you’re looking for the team that keeps the hospital stocked with supplies and equipment, you’ll need to head here.

What is Materials Management and Purchasing in the West Tower basement?

400

This nearby hospital is connected through the North Tower basement, allowing shared medical services and collaboration.

What is St. Joseph Hospital?

400

Parents visiting the 2nd floor, North Tower,  to see their newborns will most likely be heading to this unit.

What is the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)?

400

This tower, used internally by Rady’s staff and departments, connects to CHOC through underground tunnels and supports many behind-the-scenes hospital operations.

What is the Bill Holmes Tower – South Tower?

400

At CHOC, this institute is located in the West Tower on floors 4 through 6.

What is the Research Institute?

400

This special area within the NICU provides care for the smallest and most critical newborns.

What is the Small Baby Unit (SBU)?

500

This tower at CHOC houses the Emergency Department, Operating Rooms, Intensive Care Units like PICU and CVICU, as well as family amenities and patient rooms.

What is the Bill Holmes Tower (South Tower)?

500

This floor in the North Tower is home to both the East and West Medical Units.

What is the Fourth Floor of the North Tower?

500

If you’re looking for Starbucks coffee, the Gift Shop, or a quiet place in the Meditation & Prayer Center, you should head to this floor.

What is the 2nd floor of the South Tower?

500

On which floor and in which tower at CHOC is the Outpatient Infusion Center located?

What is the second floor of the West Tower?

500

This hospital unit’s acronym, PICU, stands for what?

What is Pediatric Intensive Care Unit?