Boston Children’s Hospital

Boston Children's Hospital
Longwood Avenue main entrance
Geography
Location	300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Organization
Care system	Private
Hospital type	Teaching
Affiliated university	Harvard Medical School
Services
Emergency department	Level I Regional Pediatric Trauma Center
Beds	404 licensed beds (as of October 2016)
Speciality	Pediatrics and pediatric subspecialties
History
Founded	1869
Links
Website	www.childrenshospital.org
Lists	Hospitals in Massachusetts

Coordinates: 42°20′14″N 71°06′22″W / 42.33727°N 71.10600°W / 42.33727; -71.10600

Boston Children's Hospital is a 395-licensed-bed children's hospital in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area of Boston, Massachusetts. At 300 Longwood Avenue, Children's is adjacent both to its teaching affiliate, Harvard Medical School, and to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Dana-Farber and Children's jointly operate Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Care, a 60-year-old partnership established to deliver comprehensive care to patients and survivors of all types of childhood cancers. Children's was ranked #1 in 8 out of 10 clinical specialties by the U.S. News & World Report, and as the nation's number one pediatric hospital for 2014–15.

In 2012, for the 23rd year in a row, U.S. News & World Report rated Boston Children's Hospital one of the nation's top hospitals specializing in pediatric care. (Children's ranked in the top three of all pediatric specialty categories and number one in heart & heart surgery, neurology & neurosurgery, urology, nephrology and orthopedics.) Children's was the first stand-alone pediatric hospital in New England to be awarded Magnet status by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.