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Background: Rapid Response Teams are activated in non-critical care settings to provide or expedite access to escalated care before patient condition rapidly deteriorates. Patients who undergo cardiopulmonary arrest may experience emergency “Code Blue” activation. However, in clinical situations where a patient’s condition is concerning but not yet deteriorating, an intermediary Rapid Response Team (RRT) may be activated to facilitate early detection and management of at-risk patients. Pediatric Rapid response team implementation is associated with “reduction in hospital-wide mortality rate and code rate outside of the pediatric ICU”. UC Davis Medical Center has had preexisting RRTs, but prior to Fall 2020 did not have a pediatricspecific RRT for its Children’s Hospital. UCDMC is unique in that it is one of few major academic medical centers that does not have structural separation between the children- and adult-side of the hospital, and are instead housed within the same medical center. The Pediatric Rapid Response Team at UC Davis Children’s Hospital was implemented September 2020.