Inside Pediatrics Winter 2015

JUST THE FACTS

Children’s of Alabama is the only free-standing pediatric hospital in Alabama with nearly 5,000 employees across the state.

Our world-class cancer center treats more than 90 percent of all children diagnosed with cancer in Alabama.

Children’s of Alabama averages more than 650,000 outpatient visits and nearly 14,000 admissions every year.

Our Pediatric Heart Center is the first in the Southeast and one of only nine in the U.S. to be recognized as a Pediatric Heart Failure Institute by The Healthcare Colloquium, the highest level of accreditation for cardiovascular programs.

Children’s of Alabama is the first pediatric hospital in the world to earn ABRET Accreditation for Neurophysiologic Intraoperative Monitoring.

CHILDREN’S OF ALABAMA

15 • Has Alabama’s only state-designated Level 1 pediatric trauma center • Offers one of the largest pediatric cardiovascular programs in the Southeast • Has one of the largest pediatric rheumatology programs in the nation • Operates one of the largest pediatric kidney dialysis programs in the country and the only one in Alabama • Is home to the state’s only pediatric cleft and craniofacial center • Offers the only pediatric ECMO program in the state • Serves as the primary site of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) pediatric medicine, surgery, psychiatry, research and residency programs • Offers 60 sub-specialty clinical fellowships and 82 residencies • With UAB, Children’s has the only Level IV NICU in the state, with a combined 168 NICU/CCN beds • Registered more than 64,000 ER visits in 2014, making it the busiest pediatric emergency department in the Southeast • Is home to the state’s only pediatric bone marrow transplant facility • Is the site of Alabama’s only pediatric burn center, one of the largest in the Southeast