Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) is a hospital located in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is currently ranked the third-best pediatric medical center in the United States by US News and World Report. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center is home to the country's busiest pediatric emergency department, the second highest amount of surgical procedures at a children's hospital in the nation, and southwest Ohio's only Level 1 pediatric trauma center. Cincinnati Children's receives the second-most NIH funds of any pediatric institution in the United States.
History
In June 1883, a meeting of women from parish communities around Cincinnati established a mission to create a Diocesan Hospital for Children. In November of that year, the "Hospital of the Protestant Episcopal Church" of the Diocese of Southern Ohio was incorporated.
The original articles of incorporation are as follows: "This corporation is not created for profit, but will rely for its establishment and support on the voluntary gifts and contribution of the charitable and humane, and therefore is to have no capital stock."
In 1884 the initial building was a single three bedroom home in Walnut Hills, a community north of downtown Cincinnati, at the corners of Park Avenue and Kemper Street. This building provided for fifteen patients, and within eight months had admitted a total of 38 children. The only patients eligible for admission were aged 1-15, suffering from an acute or chronic disease (or convalescent from such), required medical or surgical treatment. The only restriction was that no child with an infectious disease may be admitted.
The original site admitted 157 patients over the next four years. On November 23, 1887, all patients were transferred from the Walnut Hills location to the site of the permanent location on Burnett Avenue in Clifton.
Originally endowed with a fund of $3,506.48 in November 1884, the hospital's endowment had grown to over $85,000 by the turn of the century.
In 1904, a new three story wing, connecting with the rear of the main building, was built. The addition cost over $20,000 at the time, and included provisions for a large play-room, a chapel, twenty beds on the second floor, and an isolation ward for contagious diseases on the third floor. A new operating room was installed on the top floor of the main hospital at this time, and various other improvements increased the capacity of the hospital at this time to 90 beds.
The hospital has been a significant player in a variety of historic medical breakthroughs, most prominently Dr. Albert Sabin's development of the oral polio vaccine, which went into use in the United States in 1960.
Today
The hospital reports roughly 917,204 patient encounters a year, mostly from Specialty Outpatient visits (703,859), Emergency Department Visits (93,416), and Outpatient Primary Care Visits (44,110). The hospital is not-for-profit, and of $1.160 billion in revenues in 2007, $1.136 billion was spent on hospital operations. The hospital employs 11,986, including 1,258 active medical staff.[1]
The vision statement for Cincinnati Children's is, "We will be the leader in improving child health." For research, Cincinnati Children's receives the second highest awards to a pediatric institution from the National Institutes of Health and is recognized as one of the top five pediatric training institutions in the United States.
Awards and Rankings
- American Hospital Association-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize for its leadership in improving outcomes through family-centered care and a dedication to transparency (2006).
- 2nd in the nation, among all pediatric medical centers in research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (2006)[2].
- 5th in the nation by Child Magazine (2007)
- 3rd in the nation of pediatric hospitals, U.S. News & World Report[3].
Leadership
- James M. Anderson, President, CEO, and Trustee
- Thomas G. Cody, Chair of Board of Trustees
- Scott J. Hamlin, Treasurer of Board of Trustees, CFO, Senior VP
- Diane White, Secretary of Board of Trustees
- Arnold W. Strauss, Physician-in-Chief, Chair of Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation, Chair of Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
External links
References
- http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/about/news/release/2006/9-nih-funding.htm
Coordinates: 39°08′28″N 84°30′07″W / 39.141°N 84.502°W / 39.141; -84.502
