University of Iowa Children's Hospital is dedicated to meeting the health care needs of children and their families. Our staff members provide care across a full spectrum -- from health promotion and well child care to the crisis of traumatic injury and life-threatening illness, to birth defects, chronic illness, and developmental disabilities.
Our dedication to children and families dates to 1898 when University Hospital was founded. In 1919, a facility devoted to the care of children - Children's Hospital - opened as the first building constructed on the west campus of The University of Iowa.
Today, UI Children's Hospital is a nationally recognized pediatric center of excellence, providing comprehensive health care for children from birth to young adulthood in our outpatient clinics, surgical treatment and diagnostic centers, and inpatient beds.
Our staff features more than 200 physicians and surgeons with special expertise and certification in the care of children. In addition, over 400 professional nurses with special education in pediatrics are part of the UI Children's Hospital team. They are joined by child life therapists, pediatric pharmacists, respiratory therapists, nutritionists, and other pediatric professionals to assure comprehensive, "state of the science" care for children.
Our pediatric outreach and satellite clinics provide primary and specialty care for children throughout Iowa. As a "hospital within a hospital," UI Children's Hospital benefits from the sophisticated services and comprehensive resources of University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics - consistently ranked as one of the Best Hospitals in America by U.S. News and World Report magazine.
University of Iowa Children's Hospital serves children and their families at its main campus in Iowa City and satellite clinics in communities throughout Iowa. A 190-bed "hospital within a hospital," University of Iowa Children's Hospital benefits from the sophisticated services and comprehensive resources of UI Hospitals and Clinics. Child magazine ranks University of Iowa Children's Hospital among the top 20 children's hospitals in the nation.
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