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 three children’s hospitals in the nation.

At a Glance:

• More than 8,000 pediatric patients admitted
• Average length of stay: 6.6 days
• 85 percent of patients are from Maryland
• More than 60,000 children treated as outpatients in FY07 in the Pediatric Emergency Department, Oncology, Primary, Adolescent and Intensive Primary Care, Pediatric Medical Specialties, Child Mental Heath, and Pediatric Clinical Research
• More than 24,500 kids treated in the pediatric emergency department
• Injury was the number-one cause for emergency department treatment
• Nearly 700 child abuse cases seen in the pediatric emergency department 
• The only state-designated trauma center for children in Maryland
• The Pediatric Trauma Service treated 704 inpatients and 342 outpatients in fiscal 2007
• 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) service: a sophisticated heart and lung bypass technique
• Maryland’s largest pediatric hospital with 176 beds