About
Founded in 1869, Boston Children's is one of the largest pediatric hospitals in the U.S. and the only freestanding pediatric hospital in Massachusetts, with its main campus located in the Longwood Medical Area. Boston Children's provides access to safe, high quality health care services that meet the unique needs of our patients and their families, regardless of their ability to pay. Boston Children's has been and will continue to be the world leader in compassionate, equitable, family-centered care and science. Our vision and goal are to lead change in the care and well-being of children through cutting edge research, state of the art innovative clinical care and diagnostics and the development of new drugs, therapeutics and devices to treat and cure what is not currently treatable, and to solve the problems of tomorrow. Boston Children's serves a unique role in the pediatric landscape and adds value across our four mission pillars. -CARING for children we are uniquely able to serve, delivering superior outcomes in pediatrics relative to national peers, and caring for an increasingly complex pediatric population. -RESEARCH to develop new treatments and improve child health, running the world's largest pediatric research enterprise and leveraging our research to directly impact patient care. -TEACHING the next generation of leading pediatric care providers, serving as Harvard Medical School's primary pediatric teaching hospital, and filling a critical role in training sub-specialists. -Serving the COMMUNITY as a care provider, collaborator, investor, and economic contributor; offering the only large PICU and 24/7 pediatric intensivist care in New England, serving as a safety net hospital for Massachusetts Medicaid; keeping care local and lower cost by decreasing our inpatient admissions from local/regional areas and providing back-up support to other hospitals; investing in community education and support (collaborate with schools); attracting jobs and funding to the Boston and Massachusetts economies. In 2024, U.S. News & World Report ranked Boston Children's among the best in the nation, based on a wide range of factors, including reputation among pediatric specialists, medical outcomes, and care-related indicators of quality, such as nurse staffing and the availability of specialized services. This marks more than 20 years that we have earned our Top 10 spot on that esteemed list. This is also the first year that U.S. News has included Pediatric & Adolescent Behavioral Heath as a specialty, and Boston Children's is among the nation's best. In 2024, Boston Children's was also named the #1 pediatric hospital in the world by Newsweek on their list of the "World's Best Specialized Hospitals." In 2008, 2012, 2017, and 2022, Boston Children's achieved Magnet Recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. For the eighth year in a row, Boston Children's was selected as a Leader in LGBTQ Healthcare Equality by Healthcare Equality Index (HEI).
In care of Thomas Pellegriti
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