About Children's

For All The Pride You'll Feel

A Leader in Pediatric Care

Renowned for its outstanding clinical services, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh has helped establish the standards of excellence in pediatric care. From Ambulatory Care to Transplantation and Cardiac Care, talented and committed pediatric experts care for infants, children and adolescents who make more than 400,000 visits to Children's and its ambulatory care centers each year.

Children's Hospital also has been named consistently to several elite lists of pediatric health care facilities, including ranking seventh among children's hospitals (FY 2005) in funding provided by the National Institutes of Health, and one of the top pediatric hospital in the country by Child magazine and US News and World Report.

Children's is the only hospital is western Pennsylvania dedicated solely to the care of infants, children and young adults. Care is provided by more than 700 board-certified pediatricians and pediatric specialists. Children's also provides primary care and specialty care at accessible locations throughout the Pittsburgh region, as well as clinical specialty services throughout western Pennsylvania at regional health care facilities.

With 260 beds, Children's delivers among the most technologically advanced procedures for rare, complex diseases as well as progressive treatments for common childhood ailments, such as ear infections and asthma. Children's health care professionals understand that sick and injured children deserved to be treated by those specially trained to care for them—rather than by adult specialists with limited pediatric experience.