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About University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital

University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital is a 244-bed, full-service pediatric hospital and academic medical center that is solely dedicated to the health care needs of children. A trusted leader in children’s health care for more than 125 years, UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital consistently ranks among the top children’s hospitals in the nation. Among the nation’s leading academic medical centers, University Hospitals Case Medical Center is the primary affiliate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, a nationally recognized leader in medical research and education.

Statistics (January – December 2010)

Operational Beds: 244
Medical Staff: 433
Inpatient Discharges: 7,575
Outpatient Visits: 554,076
Urgent Care Visits: 22,401
Emergency Department Visits: 29,009
Trauma Admissions: 433
Total Days of Care: 53,697
Average Length of Stay (Days): 7.0
Charity Care: $40 million (reflects total amount provided by University Hospitals in 2009)
Pediatric Specialists: 1,300 physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, social workers, child life and other pediatric specialists
Nurses: More than 500
Medical Divisions: 16, including Allergy/Immunology, Developmental/Behavioral Pediatrics, Cardiology, Critical Care/Pharmacology, Emergency Medicine, Diabetes/Endocrinology/Metabolism, Epilepsy, Gastroenterology and Nutrition, General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Hematology/Oncology, Infectious Diseases/Rheumatology/Global Child Health, Neonatology, Nephrology, Neurology, Pulmonology and Sports Medicine
Surgical Specialties: 12, including Anesthesiology; Cardiothoracic; Dentistry/Oral Surgery; General Surgery; Minimally Invasive Pediatric Surgery; Neurosurgery; Ophthalmology; Orthopaedic; Otolaryngology; Plastic Surgery; Trauma; and Urology
Rainbow Babies & Children’s Foundation: 35 trustees; with a legacy of donating millions of dollars to the hospital over the years, the Foundation is a highly visible volunteer organization of committed and creative individuals and entrepreneurs who generate financial, political, corporate and community support for the hospital through key partnerships, advocacy, fundraising, financial stewardship and venture funding.
UH Rainbow Care Network: More than 370 pediatric, family medicine and specialty providers at more than 60 pediatric practice locations in the region
Outpatient Surgery Centers: Prentiss OR on Main Campus; UH Mentor Health Center; UH Westlake Health Center; UH Zeeba Surgery Center (Lyndhurst); coming soon: outpatient pediatric surgery at St. John Medical Center
Rainbow Pediatric Specialty Centers: Pediatric primary and medical/surgical specialty care. Locations: UH Chagrin Highlands Health Center; UH Concord Health Center; UH Landerbrook Health Center; UH Medina Health Center; UH Mentor Health Center; UH Sharon Health Center (RBC/SCC); UH Twinsburg Health Center; and UH Westlake Health Center. Also available at Firelands Regional Medical Center.
Rainbow Urgent Care: Locations: UH Chagrin Highlands Health Center; UH Concord Health Center; UH Medina Health Center; UH Mentor Health Center; UH Twinsburg Health Center; and UH Westlake Health Center.
Pediatric Emergency Services: Marcy R. Horvitz Pediatric Emergency Center at UH Case Medical Center in Cleveland and UH Ahuja Medical Center in Beachwood; and pediatric emergency services at UH Twinsburg Health Center and St. John Medical Center in Westlake, Southwest General Health Center in Middleburg Heights and UH Geauga Medical Center in Chardon.

UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital Distinctions

  • One of America’s Best Children’s Hospitals: Nationally ranked in all 10 children’s specialties in 2011 by U.S.News & World Report, including: Neonatal Care (#4); Cancer (#22); Cardiology and Heart Disease (#41);Diabetes/Endocrinology (#13); Gastroenterology (#40); Kidney (#25); Neurology/Neurosurgery (#19); Orthopedics (#12); Pulmonology (#8) and Urology (#46).
  • One of the nation’s first Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Centers, the hospital’s continuing legacy of innovation and research has helped to more than triple the national average life expectancy of CF patients – increasing from 11 years as recently as 1970 to more than 38 years old today.
  • Among the first hospitals in the nation to take a multidisciplinary team approach to the treatment of childhood obesity.
  • The hospital’s pediatric surgical specialists – the most advanced in the region – have performed some of the nation’s first pediatric single-site surgeries and offer minimally invasive techniques across all surgical specialties.
  • Home to the Northern Ohio Poison Center – addressing the needs of 60,000 callers from 24 counties annually – and the Rainbow Call Center – the nation’s largest pediatric nurse triage telephone program, with 200,000+ calls from patients of 1,000+ subscribing physicians across the U.S. annually.

NICU

  • Babies in the hospital’s NICU have a survival rate of 96 percent – one of the nation’s best.
  • As one of the foremost divisions of neonatology in the U.S. – and possibly the world – UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital retains its prominence as a leader in research, education and clinical care.
  • Developed at UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, the first surgical operating table for newborns is standard equipment in our state-of-the-art NICU.
  • The NICU is connected via a short walkway to UH MacDonald Women’s Hospital, allowing maternal fetal medicine specialists to care for critically ill mothers while their equally ill newborns receive neonatal care just steps away.

Pediatric Hematology and Oncology

  • The Angie Fowler Child & Young Adult Cancer Institute at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital and UH Seidman Cancer Center is internationally recognized for basic, clinical and translational research, ensuring patients have access to the most advanced therapies FIRST. UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital's Blood and Marrow Transplant Program is the only FACT-accredited pediatric program in Northeast Ohio.
  • UH Seidman Cancer Center’s Stem Cell and Bone Marrow Transplant Program is the only fully FACT-accredited pediatric program in Northeast Ohio.

Emergency Medicine

  • Nearly 30,000 children visit the pediatric emergency room each year, with nearly 7,300 receiving trauma-related care in Northern Ohio’s only designated Level I Pediatric Trauma Center.
  • The Marcy R. Horvitz Pediatric Emergency Center opened in July 2011 at University Hospitals Case Medical Center’s new $45 million Center for Emergency Medicine (CEM). The pediatric center offers enhanced privacy for young patients and their families, specialized pediatric care and includes isolation and decontamination rooms for potential bioterrorism situations.