Children's Hospitals

What Defines a Children's Hospital?

A Children's Hospital is defined as a hospital that offers its services exclusivly to imfants, children, adolescents, and young adults!

Children's Hospitalsare also vital centers of eduacation in pediatric medicine, training and preparing the next generation of children and young adults to be pediatricians and family practice physicians.

Facts

There were more than 1.3 million visits to children's hospitals in 2020(because of covid plus other illnesses)
There were patients going to children's hospitals from 49 different u.s states and 43 foreign countries in 2020
Over 104,600 donors have raised more than $53 million dollars for u.s children’s hospitals
There are more than 250 children's hospitals (CH) in the US (about 1 for every 20 of adults), providing over 95% of transplantations, cancer programs, and tertiary cares (1). These hospitals also play a major role for disadvantaged children.
Children's hospitals deliver the highest quality of care. Because children's hospitals specialize in and recieve higher volumes of complex pediatric cases than other hospitals they provide safer and more effective care.

Children's Hospitals take care of children and sometimes very young adults they specialize in many things but one of they're main focus's to to make the child feel comfortable