Facts about Children’s Hospital
How many children does Children’s Hospital serve annually?
Hospital admissions - 5,200
Surgeries - 10,837
Emergency department visits - 56,500
Urgent Care visits - 50,200
Outpatient visits - 86,136
How many staff do you employ?
East Tennessee Children’s Hospital has more than 2,000 full-time and part-time staff members supporting hospital operations. We are East Tennessee’s 18th largest employer.
Children’s Hospital:
- Has services in more than 37 pediatric subspecialties.
- Has been the primary provider of pediatric care in East Tennessee for almost 90 years and has offered this care regardless of a family’s ability to pay.
- Has 152 licensed inpatient beds: 60 beds for neonatal intensive care patients, 13 for pediatric intensive care and 79 for a variety of medical/surgical conditions.
- Has partnerships with adult facilities in Knox County to provide on-site neonatal nurses to support newborns.
- Has a close relationship with all area hospitals to ensure they are prepared to care for children and provides education and supplies when needed.
- Is a regional referral center for East Tennessee. Children’s Hospital has a mobile state-of-the-art intensive care unit, LIFELINE, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to transport critically ill and injured newborns and pediatric patients from outlying hospitals.
- Has led efforts to improve the quality of pediatric care through Solutions for Patient Safety (SPS), a national collaborative of more than 80 children’s hospitals.
Because children are not just miniature adults, but individuals with special medical, physical and emotional needs, they deserve a specially trained staff. Children’s Hospital offers more pediatric subspecialties than any other hospital in East Tennessee. They include:
- Child abuse pediatrics
- Developmental-behavioral pediatrics
- Medical genetics
- Neonatology
- Pediatrics
- Pediatric allergy and immunology
- Pediatric anesthesiology
- Pediatric cardiology
- Pediatric dentistry and pedodontics
- Pediatric dermatology
- Pediatric emergency medicine
- Pediatric endocrinology
- Pediatric forensic medicine
- Pediatric gastroenterology
- Pediatric and adolescent gynecology
- Pediatric hematology and oncology
- Pediatric infectious diseases
- Pediatric intensive care
- Pediatric nephrology
- Pediatric neurology
- Pediatric neurosurgery
- Pediatric ophthalmology
- Pediatric orthopedics
- Pediatric otolaryngology
- Pediatric pain and palliative care
- Pediatric pathology
- Pediatric perinatology
- Pediatric plastic & reconstructive surgery
- Pediatric pulmonology
- Pediatric radiology
- Pediatric rheumatology
- Pediatric sedation
- Pediatric sleep medicine
- Pediatric sports medicine
- Pediatric surgery
- Pediatric urology
- Physical medicine, rehabilitation and physiatry
Children’s Hospital provides:
Treatment for acute illnesses and injuries in the Pilot Emergency Care Center 24 hours a day, seven days a week.- Care for critically ill and injured patients in the Goody’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), which is staffed with doctors and nurses trained and experienced in the acute care of children.
- Board-certified neonatologists, in-house, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Haslam Family Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) specializes in the care of critically ill or premature newborns.
- Diagnostic services including: clinical lab, endoscopy, EEG, ECHO, EKG, nuclear medicine, pulmonary function, MRI, ultrasound and CT scan. In addition, Children’s Hospital provides multidisciplinary outpatient clinics for children with chronic conditions that include cystic fibrosis, chest wall deformities, diabetes, cancer, blood diseases, infectious diseases, obesity, diseases of the skin, metabolic diseases and cleft lip/palette.
- Additional services including our Rehabilitation Center, Home Health Department and Sleep Medicine Center.
- Pediatric clinical training to more than 70 hospitals, universities and institutions. Children’s Hospital is one of only four state designated Comprehensive Regional Pediatric Centers (CRPC) in Tennessee.
- Community outreach. The Healthy Kids program provides injury prevention, education and safety information to families throughout East Tennessee.
- Four Urgent Care Centers for non-emergencies, open on nights and weekends when pediatricians’ offices are typically closed.
2018 Clinch Ave. Knoxville, TN 37916
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