Lara Khouri has taken over as chief executive of Miller Children\u2019s and Women\u2019s Hospital in Long Beach.<\/p>\n
Her new role at the medical center will have her focus on expanding specialized services and programs and the community\u2019s access to them. Khouri succeeds Blair Kent for the top job.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a former Long Beach resident,\u00a0this is a full circle moment for my family and me,\u201d Khouri said in a statement.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m excited for the future of\u00a0pediatric and women\u2019s\u00a0health care in Long Beach and\u00a0beyond.<\/p>\n
\u201cOperational excellence, innovation, and partnership will be critical to how we grow,\u201d she continued. \u201cBy leveraging advanced analytics, research, and emerging technologies \u2013 while keeping patients and families at the center \u2013 we can scale responsibly without losing what makes this organization exceptional.\u201d<\/p>\n
Khouri returns to Long Beach with a wealth of pediatric experience. She spent more than a decade with Children\u2019s Hospital Los Angeles in East Hollywood and worked with similar institutions in Boston and Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat distinguishes Miller Children\u2019s & Women\u2019s is not only the depth of clinical
expertise, but the intentional integration of pediatric and women\u2019s care under one model,\u201d\u00a0Khouri said.<\/p>\n
In addition to continuing Miller Children\u2019s role as a teaching hospital, Khouri plans to up transportation services that will give access to community hospitals in need of the medical center. She also hopes to develop artificial intelligence-based platforms to enhance the hospital\u2019s digital capabilities.<\/p>\n
\u201cLara brings a rare combination of strategic discipline, clinical understanding, and\u00a0mission-driven\u00a0leadership,\u201d said\u00a0David Kim, president of Miller Children\u2019s parent MemorialCare. \u201cHer ability to build nationally recognized programs while partnering with physicians and inspiring care teams positions Miller Children\u2019s & Women\u2019s for its next phase of growth in both pediatric and women\u2019s health.\u201d<\/p>\n
With a net patient revenue of $462 million in 2024, Miller Children\u2019s ranked No. 37 on the Business Journal\u2019s List of Hospitals by net patient revenue last year. Additionally, Miller Children\u2019s ranked No. 46 on the List of Hospitals by staffed beds last year, with 179 staffed beds out of a total number of 357.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lara Khouri has taken over as chief executive of Miller Children\u2019s and Women\u2019s Hospital in Long Beach. Her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132,101361],"class_list":["post-221785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-miller-childrens-and-womens-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}