Boston Children’s Hospital

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Boston Children’s Hospital is a 404-bed comprehensive center for pediatric health care. As one of the largest pediatric medical centers in the United States, Boston Children’s offers a complete range of health care services for children from birth through 21 years of age. (Boston Children’s Hospital services can begin interventions at 15 weeks gestation and in some situations they also treat adults.)

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Boston Children’s hospital has approximately 25,000 inpatient admissions each year and 200+ specialized clinical programs that schedule 557,000 visits annually. Last year, the hospital performed more than 26,500 surgical procedures and 214,000 radiological examinations.

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The research enterprise at Boston Children’s Hospital, comprising more than 3,000 researchers, is the world’s largest at a pediatric center. Their work is fueled by a deep understanding of disease coupled with world-class discovery platforms, including genetics and genomics, gene editing, bioinformatics, proteomics, bioengineering, image analysis, multiple animal models, biobanks and disease-specific stem cell lines. They have special expertise in rare disease discovery and see large, highly diverse patient populations.

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Boston Children’s is ranked as #1 on the U.S. News & World Report‘s Best Children’s Hospitals 2019-20 Honor Roll. It is nationally ranked in the following 10 pediatric specialties Pediatric Cancer (#1), Cardiology & Heart Surgery (#5), Diabetes & Endocrinology (#2), Gastroenterology & GI Surgery (#4), Neonatology (#2), Nephrology (#5), Neurology & Neurosurgery (#1), Orthopedics (#1), Pulmonology and Lung Surgery (#3) and Urology (#1).

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