Dayton Children's Medical Center
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Dayton Children's Medical Center is a pediatric hospital located in Dayton, Ohio
. The Medical center is a multi-specialty hospital that saw 6,646 total admissions, 66,570 visits to the emergency department and 70,366 outpatient visits for the fiscal year of 2009-2010. In 2003, the hospital was ranked one of America’s top 25 children’s hospitals by Child (magazine)
. The hospital is staffed with 1,335 full-time employees, 291 part-time employees, and 248 physicians. Dayton Children's Medical Center is currently the only pediatric hospital in the Dayton region.
Dayton Children's Medical Center is also partered with Kohls a Minute for Kids. The Boonshoft School of Medicine
at Wright State University
is the affiliated university.
, Beavercreek
, Springboro
and Kettering
.
Dayton, Ohio
Dayton is the 6th largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County, the fifth most populous county in the state. The population was 141,527 at the 2010 census. The Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 841,502 in the 2010 census...
. The Medical center is a multi-specialty hospital that saw 6,646 total admissions, 66,570 visits to the emergency department and 70,366 outpatient visits for the fiscal year of 2009-2010. In 2003, the hospital was ranked one of America’s top 25 children’s hospitals by Child (magazine)
Child (magazine)
Child is a discontinued American parenting magazine founded by Jackie Leo and MaryAnn Sommers in 1986 and published through 2007. It was originally backed by Italian publishers, then sold to The New York Times Magazine Group which published it until 1995 along with its other women’s magazines,...
. The hospital is staffed with 1,335 full-time employees, 291 part-time employees, and 248 physicians. Dayton Children's Medical Center is currently the only pediatric hospital in the Dayton region.
Dayton Children's Medical Center is also partered with Kohls a Minute for Kids. The Boonshoft School of Medicine
Boonshoft School of Medicine
Boonshoft School of Medicine is the medical school at Wright State University...
at Wright State University
Wright State University
Wright State University is a comprehensive public university with strong doctoral, research, and undergraduate programs, rated among the 260 Best National Universities listed in the annual "America's Best Colleges" rankings by U.S. News and World Report. Wright State is located in Fairborn, Ohio,...
is the affiliated university.
History
The Dayton Children's Medical Center was founded in 1967 and was originally known as The Barney Children's Medical Center. In 1970, the hospital's name changed to be what it is today. Also that same year, Dayton Children's evolved into a 155-bed private, not-for-profit hospital for infants, children and adolescents. On February 1, 1980, The Ronald McDonald House was completed for the benefit of Dayton Children's patients and their families.Awards and recognition
Dayton Children's Medical Center received the following:- Dayton Children's was named Business of the Year in 2004 by the Dayton Business Journal.
- Dayton Children's is the 2004 Better Business Bureau Eclipse Integrity Award winner in the category of companies with more than 100 employees.
- Dayton Children’s was ranked one of America’s top 25 children’s hospitals in 2003 by Child (magazine)Child (magazine)Child is a discontinued American parenting magazine founded by Jackie Leo and MaryAnn Sommers in 1986 and published through 2007. It was originally backed by Italian publishers, then sold to The New York Times Magazine Group which published it until 1995 along with its other women’s magazines,...
for 2003-2004.
- Dayton Children's pharmacyPharmacyPharmacy is the health profession that links the health sciences with the chemical sciences and it is charged with ensuring the safe and effective use of pharmaceutical drugs...
was one of three in the country receiving the Award of Excellence in Medication Use Safety
- The Cancer Care program at Dayton Children's is one of only 11 accredited pediatric cancer programs in the country.
- The pediatric intensive care unit won the Ohio Patient Safety Institute Best Practices Award in 2009 for its record of decreasing the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP).
Accreditations
The hospital has received the following accreditations:- College of American PathologistsCollege of American PathologistsThe College of American Pathologists , is a medical society serving more than 17,000 physician members and the laboratory community throughout the world....
gave Dayton Children’s laboratory full accreditation in 2007. - American College of RadiologyAmerican College of RadiologyThe American College of Radiology , founded in 1923, is a non-profit professional medical association composed of diagnostic radiologists, radiation oncologists, interventional radiologists, nuclear medicine physicians, and medical physicists. It is based in Reston, Virginia, with offices in...
accredited the medical imagingMedical imagingMedical imaging is the technique and process used to create images of the human body for clinical purposes or medical science...
services at the hospital. - Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Echocardiography Laboratories accredited the hospital's echocardiographyEchocardiographyAn echocardiogram, often referred to in the medical community as a cardiac ECHO or simply an ECHO, is a sonogram of the heart . Also known as a cardiac ultrasound, it uses standard ultrasound techniques to image two-dimensional slices of the heart...
laboratory. - American College of Sleep Medicine accredited the Pediatric Sleep Center at Dayton Children's.
- Pediatric Residency Review Committee accredited the pediatric residency program at the hospital.
- The Comprehensive Cancer Care Center at Dayton Children's has been accredited by the American College of SurgeonsAmerican College of SurgeonsThe 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:...
. - Dayton Children's was accredited by JCAHO in June 2003.
- The Cystic Fibrosis Center is accredited by National Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
Locations
Dayton Children's Medical Center has several outpatient testing centers in the Dayton area. These centers are located in VandaliaVandalia, Ohio
Vandalia is a city in Montgomery County, Ohio, United States, and a suburb of Dayton. Its population was 15,246 during the 2010 census. The James M. Cox Dayton International Airport is located in the city...
, Beavercreek
Beavercreek, Ohio
Beavercreek is the largest city in Greene County, Ohio, United States, and is the second largest suburb of Dayton behind Kettering. The population was 45,193 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area...
, Springboro
Springboro, Ohio
Springboro is an affluent suburb of Cincinnati and Dayton located in Warren and Montgomery counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. It is in Warren County's Clearcreek and Franklin Townships and Montgomery County's Miami Township...
and Kettering
Kettering, Ohio
As of the census of 2000, there were 57,502 people, 25,657 households, and 15,727 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,077.4 people per square mile . There were 26,936 housing units at an average density of 1,441.6 per square mile...
.