About Rainbow

Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital was founded more than 120 years ago with the desire to help children from Cleveland’s neighborhoods grow strong and healthy.

Since then we’ve grown into the region’s premier medical facility dedicated to the care of children and their families.

As a leading academic medical center, we offer cutting-edge therapies to area children long before they’re available nationwide.

• Rainbow is a 244 bed facility on the campus of University Hospitals of Cleveland.
• There are more than 850 pediatric specialists who are dedicated to the treating the unique needs of children.
• Rainbow is ranked as the #1 pediatric hospital in the Midwest by Child magazine and US News & World Report and a top 10 children’s hospital in annual surveys.
• Rainbow’s newborn nursery is the best in the country as reported in Child magazine in 2003. The survival rates for babies born at extremely low-birth weights or with complex medical problems are among the best in the world.
• Patient visits to Rainbow pediatricians are more than 200,000 with 28,000 patients per year.
• About 10,000 newborns, infants, children, and adolescents are hospitalized at Rainbow each year.
• About 22,000 children came into the emergency room last year. 700 of those children experienced serious trauma.
• The Orthopaedic Surgeons at Rainbow treated more than 12,000 kids throughout northeast Ohio.
• The Ireland Cancer Center is the only cancer center in northern Ohio designated a Comprehensive Cancer Center (the National Cancer Institute’s highest designation), which coordinates with children’s care physicians.
• As part of the Ireland Cancer Center, kids who have cancer at Rainbow receive the latest treatments FIRST.
• Rainbow will see more than 200 new cancer patients each year.
• There is an average of 180 hospitalized children each day at Rainbow.
• Rainbow’s outcomes for treating newborns with congenital heart defects are the best in the State.
• Rainbow’s surgical outcomes for treating brain and spine tumors are the best in the State.
• Rainbow has two of only 100 pediatric sports medicine specialists in the country.
• Rainbow with their academic affiliate, Case Western Reserve University, receives more than 52 million dollars each year in research funding.
• Rainbow has the first Cystic Fibrosis Center in the Country and has the longest-living survivors.
• Rainbow’s endocrinology division is known world-wide for its one-of-a-kind metabolic disease lab.

The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit cares for the sickest babies

Rainbow’s NICU, or newborn intensive care unit, is the best in the country for outcomes and follow-up care of premature babies born with complications.

Rainbow neonatologists, here in Cleveland, wrote the medical text books on caring for newborns. The doctors here trained the leading neonatologists around the world.

Rainbow’s NICU is one of the largest in the Country and has more admissions than any other neonatal intensive care unit.

There are about 1,200 admissions per year in Rainbow’s NICU including infants with birth weights under 1.5 kilograms or 3 pounds, 3 ounces.

With 82-level III beds, Rainbow’s NICU has among the best survival rates in the country.

Rainbow’s level III 44-bed Neonatal Transitional Care Unit is a national model.

 

The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, cares for the most complex cases

The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit has among the best survival rates in the Country.

Rainbow leads the country in drug therapy & research bringing kids in Cleveland the newest treatments first.

The 16-bed PICU cares for more than 1,500 critically ill children every year.