Phoenix Children's Hospital

See schedule o as Arizona's only licensed, freestanding, nonprofit Children's Hospital, Phoenix Children's Hospital (the Hospital) operates with the mission to provide hope, healing, and the best healthcare for children and their families, as well as the vision that the Hospital will earn national recognition for pediatric care, innovative research, medical education and advocacy. The Hospital has the goal of developing a pediatric-focused, integrated delivery system for maricopa county and Arizona. The Hospital provides care to the state's pediatric patients in more than 75 subspecialties and includes 7 centers of excellence offering interdisciplinary care: center for cancer and blood disorders and infusion center, Phoenix Children's heart center, barrow neurological institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital, center for pediatric orthopedics, level i pediatric trauma center, level iv newborn intensive care unit, and Phoenix Children's Hospital surgical programs. The Hospital is one of the country's largest and busiest Children's hospitals, with 435 licensed beds and a medical staff of over 1,400 practitioners. In addition to the Hospital's main campus near downtown Phoenix, Arizona, the Hospital provides clinical services through its network of integrated physicians in approximately 100 practice sites throughout maricopa county, the primary service area of the Hospital. The Hospital also provides specialty pediatric services in tucson, yuma, flagstaff, mesa, scottsdale, glendale, and avondale. Affiliates of the Hospital include the Phoenix Children's Hospital foundation (the foundation); Arizona Children's risk solutions (formerly cambridge Arizona insurance company) (the captive); Phoenix Children's care network (pccn); Phoenix Children's property development, llc (pcpd); and Phoenix Children's cardiology diagnostics, llc (pccd), collectively referred to as the company. As Hospital volumes have grown, pch has been able to provide more subspecialized care through investments in specialized medical staff and technology. Today the organization focuses investment on the seven centers of excellence ("coes") to improve access to care for the children in Arizona and the southwestern united states. Since 2011, the Hospital has been recognized annually as one of the top 50 pediatric hospitals in the united states, according to the u.s. news & world report survey of Children's hospitals and is currently ranked in all 10 specialties that are evaluated for pediatric hospitals. Pch began with four coes but has expanded to seven coes offering interdisciplinary care, each of which is described below. Additionally, in 2019, pch was designated by the american college of surgeons as a Children's surgery verification level 1 program. The Phoenix Children's heart center is one of only eleven programs in the nation to receive a three-star rating, the highest level of distinction, from the society of thoracic surgeons congenital heart surgery database. Since the program's inception, the heart team has performed over 115 heart transplants, including the youngest child ever to receive a total artificial heart transplant. The cvicu was recently expanded from 24 to 48 beds. In december of 2020, the Hospital became the only Arizona Hospital and one of only 38 in the nation to receive accreditation from the adult congenital heart association. The center for cancer and blood disorders and infusion center at pch is the largest pediatric provider of hematology and oncology services in Arizona with 15 private infusion rooms, 6 quick infusion rooms and 6 blood draw spaces. It is the only foundation for the accreditation of cellular therapy ("fact") accredited program in the state and the only free-standing pediatric Hospital in the state with a blood and bone marrow transplant program in partnership with the mayo clinic. The program is ranked in the top five percent of programs for one-year survival for patients with first allogeneic stem cell transplants. The center for cancer and blood disorders and infusion center is also the only location in Arizona where children living with cancer can participate in phase i clinical trials, giving them access to the latest breakthrough therapies. Barrow neurological institute at pch is the only program in the southwest, and one of the few in the country, to offer laser ablation surgery for epilepsy and brain tumors. Barrow neurological institute also maintains research labs, a level 4 epilepsy program and provides coverage for the only neuro-nicu in Arizona, which provides life-saving treatment to newborns who have suffered birth-related brain injury. The Phoenix Children's center for pediatric orthopedic surgery is a statewide referral center for child and adolescent musculoskeletal problems. These include spinal deformity and scoliosis, leg-length discrepancy, infections, musculoskeletal oncology and those related to muscular dystrophy and cerebral palsy. The pediatric spine surgery program is the premier program in the state, offering state-of-the-art electro-optical system imaging. Phoenix Children's Hospital level iv newborn intensive care unit has 33 licensed nicu beds. The nicu is the only level iv nursery in the state and pch cares for the most complex newborns. Many of the children in the nicu draw on the strength of other pch related programs. For example, the medical and surgical capabilities of the heart center for children born with serious congenital heart issues are often part of a person's care from the time they are admitted to the nicu until the patient has grown into adulthood. The neonatology program continues to grow as a result of the strategic expansion for mother-baby care. In 2020, pch began to employ neonatologists, expanding neonatology coverage and medical management from pch to dignity health hospitals, including mgmc, crmc, and most recently st. joseph Hospital and medical center. Pch manages 110 nicu beds for dignity health. When the new pch - ev Hospital opens, the nicu program at mgmc will transition to pch - ev and grow by 50 beds. Within four years, pch will have grown its neonatology program to service to 193 nicu beds. The program continues to build support through pch's nationally ranked Arizona fetal care network that provides multidisciplinary medical and surgical services and care coordination for mothers and their unborn babies. This gives pch a unique opportunity to begin providing support to families before their time in the nicu. The Phoenix Children's Hospital level i pediatric trauma center (which includes a state-of-the-art new emergency department) is the only level i pediatric trauma center in the state, and one of only 35 such centers in the united states. The approximately 42,000 square-foot center has 75 exam rooms and accommodates between 100,000 and 125,000 visits annually. It is also home to the only philips iqon spectral ct scanner approved for pediatric clinical use in the country. Phoenix Children's Hospital surgical program is one of 33 designated level 1 Children's surgery verification programs in the united states. The american college of surgeons, in collaboration with the task force for Children's surgical care, developed standards to improve surgical care for pediatric surgical patients. These standards have led the development of the Children's surgery verification program and are the nation's first and only multispecialty standards for Children's surgical care. The Hospital is nationally recognized for the high quality of its medical services in many other specialized practices as well. For example, the cystic fibrosis center at the Hospital was the first program in the state to be certified by the national cystic fibrosis foundation. In addition to the transplantation programs described above, the Hospital also has highly rated programs in liver and kidney transplantation. Pch's pectus program for chest wall reconstruction is the largest in the nation and one of the largest in the world. Doctors and nurses are vital components of the personalized care team Phoenix Children's provides each of its children. Equally important to the Hospital's philosophy of care is the family: mothers, fathers, siblings, grandparents and other members of a family's support system. It's those family members who are the primary caregivers and provide the strength and support required to help our young patients recover from illness and injury. They partner with the Hospital's team to help develop a plan of treatment that best fits their personal situations.