Overview

As the pediatric hospital at Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center brings the collaborative multi-disciplinary might and expertise of this venerable institution to bear in treating every child that crosses its threshold.

Hopkins Children’s offers the best care available in modern pediatric medicine. U.S. News & World Report ranks Hopkins Children’s among the top ten children’s hospitals in the nation.

At a Glance:

• More than 8,400 pediatric patients admitted
• Average length of stay: 6.5 days
• 85 percent of patients are from Maryland
• More than 73,000 children treated as outpatients in FY08 in the Pediatric Emergency Department, and other specialiteis including Oncology.
• More than 25,000 kids treated in the Pediatric Emergency Department
• Injury was the number-one cause for Emergency Department treatment
• The only state-designated trauma center for children in Maryland
• The Pediatric Trauma Service treated 704 inpatients and 342 outpatients in fiscal 2008
• Designated Burn Center for pediatric patients in Maryland
• 45-bed regional neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), one of only two level 4 NICUs in Maryland
• Nearly 600 babies admitted to the NICU
• Only children’s hospital in Maryland offering ECMO (Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation): a sophisticated heart and lung bypass technique
• Maryland’s largest pediatric hospital with 180 beds

Updated August 10, 2009