The Akron Children's Hospital is a children's hospital located in Akron, Ohio.
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Akron Children’s Hospital began as a day nursery in 1890. In 2010 it was the largest pediatric health care provider in northeast Ohio. Akron Children’s Hospital has 78 locations throughout the region, including a 253-bed campus in downtown Akron and a 32-bed campus in Boardman[1], Akron Children’s Hospital has approximately 3,900 employees and cares for more than half a million children and adults each year.
Akron Children’s offers a full range of services to its 25-county region, including well visits and trauma and intensive care to treatment of rare and serious childhood disorders. Children’s main campus in downtown Akron houses regional centers for genetics, fetal treatment, cancer and blood disorders, heart, palliative care, orthopedics, pediatric trauma, pediatric intensive care, and level III neonatal intensive care, among others. Children’s is one of two pediatric hospitals in the country that operates a burn center for both adults and children. Akron Children’s Paul and Carol David Foundation Burn Institute is among a few verified by both the American Burn Association and The Committee on Trauma of The American College of Surgeons.
Akron Children’s Beeghly Campus in Boardman includes a 32-bed pediatric inpatient unit; a pediatric ER; a center for childhood cancer and blood disorders; an infusion center, as well as EEG/ECHO/EKG, radiology, laboratory and rehabilitation services. Services based in the Mahoning Valley include a 33-bed neonatal special care nursery; child advocacy, community outreach and education center; and subspecialty practices for cardiology, orthopedics, nephrology, neurology, rheumatology, pulmonology and genetics. Children’s provides additional pediatric services at Akron General Medical Center, MedCentral Health System in Mansfield, Aultman Hospital in Canton, Fisher-Titus Medical Center in Norwalk and Robinson Memorial Hospital in Ravenna, as well as offices in Beachwood and Hudson.
Akron Children’s Hospital has earned the Gold Seal of Approval from the Joint Commission[2] and Magnet Recognition Status[3] from the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
Akron Children's Hospital is a clinical training site for undergraduate and graduate Registered Nurse (RN) students and Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) students from 12 affiliated nursing schools. The hospital is also a clinical training site for The University of Akron's Radiologic Technology (RT) program.
Akron Children's Hospital is affiliated with Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy (NEOUCOM), a community-based, public institution. The NEOUCOM educational consortium includes the Rootstown, Ohio, campus, eight teaching hospitals, 10 associated hospitals and two health departments. Akron Children's Hospital also offers several pediatric subspecialty fellowship programs. They include:
Housed at Akron Children's Hospital, the Cooperative Medical Technology Program of Akron is a joint educational effort among the three major hospitals in Akron. Akron Children's Hospital's American Heart Association (AHA) Community Training Center is one of the largest in Ohio. It offers advanced cardiac life support, pediatric advanced life support, CPR, AED and first aid courses.
It is approved as a "Pediatric Teaching Cancer Program" by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer.