About Cincinnati Children's
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center serves the medical needs of infants, children and adolescents from the local Tristate area, the region, nationally and internationally with family-centered care, innovative research and outstanding teaching programs.
Clinical procedures and treatments pioneered at Cincinnati Children's are used throughout the world. The impact of our medical research breakthroughs has improved pediatric health today and will for generations to come.
Cincinnati Children's, a private, non-profit institution, has a staff of more than 10,000, which is an increase of about 60 percent in the past five years. It is the home of the Department of Pediatrics of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, which includes almost 450 full- and part-time faculty members. Faculty in the Department of Pediatrics also participate actively in training and education, making us the third ranked pediatrics department and the seventh ranked pediatric hospital in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report.
Yet the institution is not standing pat.
Our mission
Cincinnati Children's will improve child health and transform delivery of care through fully integrated, globally recognized research, education and innovation.
For patients from our community, the nation and the world, the care we provide will achieve the best:
Today and in the future.
Overall, our goal is to Change the Outcome for children near and far.
Clinical Care
State-of-the-art medical facilities at Cincinnati Children's, including 475 licensed beds (with a plan to increase this number by about 50 in 2008), an array of diagnostic and therapeutic approaches and specialists in all areas of pediatrics allow us to provide innovative care and advanced treatment for pediatric patients. Family-centered care initiatives recognize, respect and support the family's critical role in caring for patients.
Cincinnati Children's has sixteen patient care sites through the region. Although services vary by location, Cincinnati Children's neighborhood locations offer frequently-used services, such as X-ray, laboratory testing, urgent care, specialty clinics and more. In fiscal year 2007, we had more than 26,000 admissions, 765,000 outpatient clinic visits, 93,000 emergency department visits, and almost 29,000 surgical cases.
We are working to continually improve the quality of our care. Cincinnati Children's was selected as the 2006 recipient of the McKesson Quest for Quality Prize from the American Hospital Association.
In addition, Cincinnati Children's is the only pediatric hospital chosen to participate in Pursuing Perfection: Raising the Bar for Health-Care Performance, a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation awarded to only seven health care organizations in the U.S. The goal of this initiative is to transform the health-care system in America.
Cincinnati Children's is the only Level 1 pediatric trauma center in Southwestern Ohio, Northern Kentucky and Southeastern Indiana, with the only pediatric cardiac intensive care unit in the region.
Research
Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation is one of the largest pediatric research programs in the nation. Translational research results in innovations that have a direct impact on improving patient care.
Arnold W. Strauss, MD, chairs the Department of Pediatrics and directs the Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation, which is the umbrella organization under which the Department of Pediatrics falls.
Our faculty currently conduct research in over one million square feet of state-of-the-art laboratory and office space, including a brand new twelve-story research building that houses the offices and laboratories of the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition.
Funding
Cincinnati Children's ranks second nationally among pediatric institutions in direct funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and receives about one-sixth of the total NIH support to children's hospitals. Total funding from the NIH in fiscal year 2006 was $90,947,409, which represents a doubling over the past 5 years.
Education
Cincinnati Children's offers one of the largest pediatric training programs within a single institution in the United States. In addition to residents in pediatrics, combined residency programs, dentistry and psychology and fellows in pediatric subspecialties, rotating residents in surgery and other fields learn the pediatric aspects of their fields at Cincinnati Children's. Further, we train medical and nursing students, PhD graduate students in Molecular and Developmental Biology and Immunobiology, post-doctoral fellows and many others.
