Cincinnati Children’s opens its first neighborhood location, Children’s Outpatient North, that is today known as Mason Campus. It represents the first of many subsequent extensions into the community and the first time we offer surgical services outside the main hospital.

Drs. William Balistreri and Fred Ryckman establish the Pediatric Liver Care Center and begin offering liver transplantation in 1986. Today, over 700 transplants later, the center is one of the busiest in the nation while still offering a median wait time less than half the national average.