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. Hopkins Children’s is among the top children’s hospitals in the nation.

At a Glance:

• More than 8,500 admissions
• Average length of stay: 6.3 days
• 85 percent of patients are from Maryland
• Nearly 93,000 outpatient visits in FY10 in the Pediatric Emergency Department, and other specialties including Oncology.
• More than 26,600 visits to 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 admitted 465 out of 814 children seen under the age of 15 in FY10
  
• 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
• More than 500 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 182 beds

Updated November 2, 2010