Boston Children's Hospital | |
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Longwood Avenue main entrance
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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 |
Lists | Hospitals in Massachusetts |
Coordinates: 42°20′14″N 71°06′22″W / 42.33727°N 71.10600°W
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.