Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital

This article is about Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital. For other similarly named hospitals, see Children's Hospital (disambiguation).
Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital
Geography
Location Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Coordinates 41°30′16″N 81°36′21″W / 41.5044444°N 81.6058333°W / 41.5044444; -81.6058333Coordinates: 41°30′16″N 81°36′21″W / 41.5044444°N 81.6058333°W / 41.5044444; -81.6058333
Organization
Care system Medicaid, Private Insurance, BCMH
Hospital type Teaching, Tertiary Referral Center
Affiliated university Case Western Reserve University
Services
Emergency department Level I pediatric trauma center
Beds 244
History
Founded 1887
Links
Website http://www.uhhospitals.org/rainbow
Lists Hospitals in Ohio

Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital is a children's hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. It is a part of University Hospitals Case Medical Center, formerly University Hospitals of Cleveland. [1] In 2015-16, Rainbow ranked third in the country for neonatal care in the U.S. News & World Report rankings of pediatric hospitals.[2]

The hospital was founded in 1906. It has 244-beds, and is served by approximately 1,300 board certified pediatric specialists. It is the primary teaching hospital for students enrolled in Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.[3][4] It treats children with cancer, heart disease, cystic fibrosis and pulmonary specialties, sickle cell disease, kidney disease, immunology and endocrine and metabolic disorders. Its neonatologists specialize in the treatment of high-risk and premature newborns.

Rankings

U.S. Navy personnel visiting with patients

2015-16 U.S. News & World Report National Rankings'[5]

Child Specialty National Rank
Neonatal Care 3
Respiratory Disorders 11
Orthopedics 8
Neurology & Neurosurgery 22
Kidney Disorders 29
Digestive Disorders 50
Cancer 19
Urology 47

Rainbow Babies & CHildren's Hospital regularly conducts clinical trials in the treatment of pediatric health disorders including pediatric oncology, depression and lupus. It also offers services for medical professionals, including residency and fellowship programs, continuing medical education, a nursing program, and the Rainbow Center for Pediatric Ethics.

NICU

Rainbow's neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) cares for more than 1,300 premature and critically ill babies each year. It serves a 12-county area in Northeast Ohio with a pediatric population of nearly one million. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have designated it as a level III Neonatal Research Center – the highest available designation.[6]

The NICU is one of 21 units in the country deemed a National Research Center by the NIH. Its team of 22 NICU doctors and six neonatology fellows have authored medical textbooks and directed studies in research and clinical care of high-risk and low-birth weight babies. It admits approximately 1,000 newborns annually, and also serves as the ECMO referral center for Northeast Ohio.

In 2009 the NICU completed a renovation and expansion.[7] The 38-bed NICU now connects to a 44-bed neonatal transitional unit on the same floor, several feet away from the delivery rooms at MacDonald Women's Hospital. Improvements include more bedside privacy for parents, an increase in the number of diagnostic and imaging equipment, and the ability to provide extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) treatment without transporting the baby.

PICU

Rainbow's pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is a 23-bed combined medical-surgical unit which cares for more than 1500 critically ill children each year. An attending intensivist from the Division of Pediatric Critical Care coordinates care, in cooperation with children's primary pediatricians and medical and surgical subspecialists.

References

  1. ↑ Best Hospitals 2015-16 Specialty Search: Pediatrics U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved on 2016-3-31.
  2. ↑ Best Hospitals 2015-16 Specialty Search: Pediatrics. Retrieved on 2016-3-31.
  3. ↑ http://www.healthcare-administration-degree.net/50-most-amazing-childrens-hospitals-in-the-world/ Retrieved on 2016-3-31.
  4. ↑ "The Division and the Institution".
  5. ↑ Best Hospitals 2015-16 Specialty Search: Pediatrics. Retrieved on 2016-3-31.
  6. ↑ "Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)". University Hospitals of Cleveland.
  7. ↑ "Vision 2010: The UH Difference". University Hospitals of Cleveland. Archived from the original on 25 February 2012.
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