A dynamic institution
- Children's Memorial Hospital is a top-ranking children’s hospital, a regional leader in 20 pediatric specialties and Illinois' only freestanding hospital exclusively for kids.
- In 2009, the hospital served more than 126,000 children from every state and 36 countries.
- Licensed for 270 beds, the hospital's medical staff includes 1,100 pediatric specialists and offers 70 pediatric specialties.
- Examples of some of our "firsts:" we are home to the world’s first pediatric center for Autonomic Medicine, and were the first pediatric hospital in Illinois to perform the Berlin Heart procedure, a breakthrough technology that helps children awaiting heart transplants.
- Our nurses have earned the most prestigious national honor, the Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence. We were the first children’s hospital in the nation to achieve such recognition, currently held by only 6 percent of the nation’s hospitals.
- Family Services plays a key role in healing. Dedicated professionals offer multiple creative and educational programs, activities and resources, helping hospitalized children and their families emotionally, socially and developmentally.
- Read more in the hospital's annual reports and stay connected with us online.
- Established in 1986, Children's Memorial Research Center is the research enterprise of Children's Memorial Hospital.
- The research center is also one of 29 interdisciplinary research centers and institutes of Northwestern Memorial's Feinberg School of Medicine, where principal investigators who are part of the research center are full-time faculty members.
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Also in 2009, the research center had 212 physician-scientists, 295 papers published in peer-reviewed journals and 581 proposals submitted, including 75 proposals submitted for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
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In 2008, we were the nation’s first pediatric hospital to acquire XenoBase, a unique bioinformatics system with a powerful capacity to integrate clinical and research data.
- Read more in the research center's 2008 annual report.
Intense education
- We are the pediatric training center of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, providing residencies in both Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery. Our highly skilled faculty, comprehensive clinical services, and innovative research programs all contribute to an exceptional training environment, demonstrating our commitment to continued excellence in pediatric medicine.
- Each year, the Department of Pediatrics trains approximately 200 physicians. Almost half are pediatric residents, and the remainder are fellows in various pediatric sub-specialties including cardiology, hematology/oncology and neonatology. The department ranked 17th nationally in the 2009 U.S.News & World Report’s "Best Medical Schools Specialty Rankings for Pediatrics."
- As the pediatric surgery training center of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, our Department of Surgery provides formal resident education in each of its ten divisions. Our surgeons also train rotating residents from Rush University, the University of Illinois, and the University of Chicago. In addition, we provide subspecialty programs approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education in Pediatric General Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, Congenital Cardiac Surgery, and Urology through the Feinberg School of Medicine.
Advocacy and Community
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Supporting our commitment to community, we invested more than $110.5 million in community benefit programs in 2008. These included charity care (losses due to reimbursement below cost of Medicaid services), and other uncompensated costs; resident and fellow training; family services including language assistance services, pastoral care, social work, art and music therapies, hospital volunteer services, transplant patient family housing; research funding; community clinic support and child advocacy programs.
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We focus on prevention and health promotion -- policies and programs to keep children healthy, reduce the need for hospitalization, support social development. Current initiatives focus on injury prevention; chronic illness; HIV/AIDS; school health, and; advocacy training.
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We care for children from every legislative district in Illinois, and have a long history of partnering with government and community leaders to improve the health and well-being of children.
Unless otherwise noted, sources for these statements include Illinois Hospital Association COMPdata, Pediatric Health Information System (both for the 12 months ending December 2008), internal data (for the fiscal year September 2008 to August 2009), the United Network for Organ Sharing and the Scientific Registry for Transplant Recipients.