Children's hospital is a hospital which offers its services exclusively to children. The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the last century, as pediatric medical and surgical specialties separated from internal medicine and adult surgical specialties. Children's hospitals are characterized by greater attention to the psychosocial support of children and their families. A physician visiting the sick in a hospital. ... A male toddler A child (plural: children) is a young human. ...
Children’shospitals are unique resources that benefit all children through clinical care, research, pediatric medical education and advocacy.
The Children’sHospital Association of Texas (CHAT) is a non-profit association whose mission is to ensure that Texas children have access to effective, high quality, comprehensive and appropriately funded health care.
The pediatric specialists and medical professionals working at children’shospitals are trained to understand the physical, emotional and developmental needs of children—whether that child is 15 ounces or 150 pounds.
The Tampa Shriners ChildrensHospital is a $30 million, 60-bed pediatric orthopaedic hospital serving children in Florida, southern Georgia and the Caribbean free-of-charge.
In a network of 22 hospitals, the Tampa Hospital is the 19th orthopaedic hospital as four facilities are burns institutes.
The hospital is designed to complement a "family centered care" concept which encourages the patient's recovery and treatment with family participation through fold- beds in patient rooms and motel-type rooms for parents staying over night.