Liberty Campus opens for patient care on August 11, at the intersection of I-75 and Ohio State Route 129. The 230,000 sq. ft. facility is designed with patient and family input, featuring interactive elements in waiting areas, warm colors and natural light. It boasts 12 short-stay beds, an Emergency Department, sub-specialty clinic space and eight operating rooms. On that same day, Surgical Services closes at Mason Campus and moves to Liberty Campus.

Cincinnati Children’s researchers discover that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke and childhood exposure to lead account for more than a third of all Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) cases among children in the United States.

Buckle Up for Life was founded at Cincinnati Children's by Victor Garcia, MD, in 2004. The outreach program partners with Toyota to provide passenger safety education to families and their children and has provided over 85,000 car seats to those in need.

The Sabin Education Center is dedicated in 2001 in honor of Albert B. Sabin, MD (1906-1993), who developed the oral polio vaccine to eradicate perhaps the greatest public health scare of the early 20th century. The center originally housed the Pratt Research Library, Rubinstein Library, Patient Services Library and Family and Professional Resource Center. Today the area around the Sabin Auditorium is a gathering space and home to the medical center’s broadcast studio, Seacrest Studios.

The Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children revolutionizes the approach to care for children who are victims of physical/sexual abuse and neglect. Its establishment helped the medical community acknowledge and address a problem that was not generally talked about at the time. The Mayerson Center provides a central location for patients and families to interact with law enforcement and medical and community personnel.