In 2014 Cleveland Clinic Children's entered into a collaboration with Akron Children's Hospital to open up a pediatric and adult congenital heart program.[6]
In 2017 administrators from Cleveland Clinic announced the construction of a new $20 million, 120,000-square-foot, pediatric outpatient center.[7] While the new facility will join children's primary and specialty outpatient care in one location, inpatients would still be housed at the M Building.[8] The new building was constructed by firm Turner Construction, designed by HKS and consists of 50 exam rooms, 20 pediatric infusion rooms, and four operating rooms.[9] The building opened to patients in 2018 and is now known as the R Building.[10][11]
In 2019 it was announced that Akron Children's Hospital and the Cleveland Clinic would be expanding the pediatric and adult congenital heart program that was started 2014.[12] The expansion consisted of two new centers, located at Akron Children's and Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital. In addition, five-more-years was added to the agreement.[13]
About
The hospital has an American Academy of Pediatrics verified level III neonatal intensive care unit that has a capacity of 17 bassinets.[14] The hospital also has 38 bed pediatric intensive care beds for critical pediatric patients age 0-21.[15]
The hospital does not have a level I pediatric trauma center and transports all pediatric trauma patients to the nearby Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital.[16]
The hospital is a few blocks away from the Ronald McDonald House of Cleveland, while also having a family room on the third floor of the M Building.[5]
Awards
In 2018 the hospital ranked nationally as #23 in pediatric cancer, #26 in pediatric cardiology and heart surgery, #39 in pediatric diabetes and endocrinology, #23 in pediatric gastroenterology and gi surgery, #50 in neonatology, #49 in pediatric nephrology, #24 in pediatric neurology and neurosurgery, #50 in pediatric orthopedics, #32 in pediatric pulmonology, and #42 in pediatric urology on the 2018-19 U.S. News & World Report.[17]
2021 U.S. News & World Report Rankings for Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital[20][21]
Specialty
Rank (In the U.S.)
Score (Out of 100)
Neonatology
#14
85.8
Pediatric Cancer
#17
80.0
Pediatric Cardiology and Heart Surgery
#15
81.4
Pediatric Diabetes & Endocrinology
#44
65.9
Pediatric Gastroenterology & GI Surgery
#12
86.1
Pediatric Nephrology
#35
69.2
Pediatric Neurology & Neurosurgery
#25
79.7
Pediatric Orthopedics
#26
73.2
Pediatric Pulmonology & Lung Surgery
#32
73.6
Pediatric Urology
#23
67.5
Facilities
Rehabilitation hospital
Named the "Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital for Rehabilitation," the hospital was originally founded 1889, and features 52-beds for pediatric rehabilitation.[22][23] The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric rehabilitative services for children with disabilities caused by trauma, birth defects, brain and spinal-cord injury, respiratory, orthopedic and developmental disorders.
Main hospital
Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital is considered as a "hospital within a hospital" as their main inpatient hospital is located within the M Building of the Cleveland Clinic campus.[24]
Fairview campus
Cleveland Clinic Children's includes a 24-bed pediatric inpatient unit at Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital.[25] In 2019, the hospital announced that they would open a new child and adolescent psychiatry unit made up of 13 private rooms.[26] The hospital also announced the opening of the new 16-bed pediatric emergency department to reduce the stress for children who are treated at the hospital.[27]
