Press Kit

Children’s National Medical Center is the only exclusive provider of pediatric care in the metropolitan Washington, DC area, and is the only freestanding children’s hospital between Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Norfolk, and Atlanta. Serving the nation’s children for more than 135 years, Children’s National is a proven leader in the development and application of innovative new treatments for childhood illness and injury.

Children’s National Medical Center includes:

• Children’s Hospital, which features 283 beds, 44 of which are level IV Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) bassinets; a Level I pediatric trauma center which serves three states (Washington, DC, Md. and Va.); and a critical care transport program via ambulance, helicopter and fixed-wing airplane;
• Seven Regional Outpatient Centers that provide specialty care around the Beltway;
• A primary care program that includes health centers with mobile medical units within the District of Columbia and owned practices throughout the metropolitan area;
• Children’s National Health Network with 400 affiliated pediatricians;
• Children’s Research Institute one of the largest basic and clinical research programs for pediatric health; and
• Other subsidiaries that focus on school health services, community partnerships and safety campaigns.

Children’s internationally recognized team of pediatric healthcare professionals care for more than 360,000 patients each year who come from throughout the region, nation and world. Serving as an advocate for all children, Children’s is the largest non-governmental provider of pediatric care in the District of Columbia, providing more than $50 million in uncompensated care. In addition, Children's serves as the regional referral center for pediatric emergency, trauma, cancer, cardiac, and critical care as well as neonatology, orthopaedic surgery, neurology, and neurosurgery.

Children’s National is proudly ranked among the best pediatric hospitals in America by US News & World Report.

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