Akron Children's Hospital
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The Akron Children's Hospital is a children's hospital
located in Akron
, Ohio
.
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 and Magnet Recognition Status from the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
(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.
Children's hospital
A children's hospital is a hospital which offers its services exclusively to children . The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th century, as pediatric medical and surgical specialties separated from internal medicine and adult surgical specialties...
located in Akron
Akron, Ohio
Akron , is the fifth largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Summit County. It is located in the Great Lakes region approximately south of Lake Erie along the Little Cuyahoga River. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 199,110. The Akron Metropolitan...
, Ohio
Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
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History
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, 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 and Magnet Recognition Status from the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
Affiliations and programs
Akron Children's Hospital is a clinical training site for undergraduate and graduate Registered NurseRegistered nurse
A registered nurse is a nurse who has graduated from a nursing program at a university or college and has passed a national licensing exam. A registered nurse helps individuals, families, and groups to achieve health and prevent disease...
(RN) students and Licensed Practical Nurse
Licensed Practical Nurse
Licensed practical nurse is the term used in much of the United States and most Canadian provinces to refer to a nurse who cares for "people who are sick, injured, convalescent, or disabled under the direction of registered nurses and physicians. The term licensed vocational nurses is used in...
(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:
- Pediatric Emergency Medicine
- Pediatric Radiology
- Pediatric Sports Medicine
- Pediatric Pathology
- Pediatric Psychiatry
- Pediatric Palliative Care
- Developmental Pediatrics
- Pediatric Hematology/Oncology (July 2008)
- The Radiography School at Akron Children's Hospital is a two-year program teaching the art and science of general diagnostic radiography (formerly called X-ray technology).
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
American College of Surgeons
The American College of Surgeons is an educational association of surgeons created in 1913 to improve the quality of care for the surgical patient by setting high standards for surgical education and practice.-Membership:...
Commission on Cancer.