CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (COLUMBUS)

'Columbus Children’s Hospital' has been caring for sick and injured children and adolescents for more than 115 years.
In recent years, the hospital has been ranked as one the best hospitals in the United States by US News & World Report and Child Magazine.
As well as, in 2006, being named as one of the top three “Best Places to Work” in Columbus by Business First’s Best Places to Work Program.
Children’s Hospital is also the pediatric teaching hospital for The Ohio State University School of Medicine.
Today, Children’s Hospital is a primary pediatric health care provider in Ohio,
with more than 950 medical staff members and 5,822 total employees who provide expert
care to children regardless of ability to pay.

Contents

Clinical Services

Family-Centered Care

Education

Research

Awards and Recognitions

History

Clinical Milestones

Research Milestones

Education Milestones

Future

External Link

Clinical Services

In 2006, Columbus Children’s Hospital had 14,931 inpatient discharges, performed 16,527 surgeries and saw 695,992 outpatient visits.
Columbus Children’s Hospital has 124 specialties within its downtown campus, where the main hospital and research center is located, and
its 28 outpatient care centers throughout the central Ohio area. These outpatient care centers are part of Children’s ''Close To Home^SM''
network, to offer the care and experience of Children’s in your community. Each ''Close To Home'' care center offers different services
and are divided into
Urgent Care Centers,
Health Care Centers,
Physician Care Centers, and
Behavioral Health Centers.
Then there are outpatient locations that
specialize in the services they offer, such as
the Homecare Center,
the Autism Center,
the Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Center,
the Orthopedic Center and
the Northwest Medical Center.
The main hospital is the only
Level 1 pediatric trauma center
in the region, that features service lines for the
Center for Child and Family Advocacy,
the Center for Healthy Weight and Nutrition,
Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition,
the Heart Center,
Hematology/Oncology/BMT,
the Jeune’s Information Center,
Neonatal Medicine,
Neurosciences, and
Sports Medicine.
Also onsite at the main hospital is the
Outpatient Care Center(OCC)
which is home is home to dozens of subspecialty ambulatory clinics,
an outpatient lab and outpatient pharmacy, as well as pediatric and surgical specialists’ private offices.
The OCC also has an Urgent Care Center that is open in the afternoon, evenings, and weekends to offer treatment for
illnesses and injuries that need immediate attention, but do not need to be handled by the hospital emergency department.

Family-Centered Care

The main ideal for all employees at Columbus Children Hospital is the concept of
family-centered care.
Family-centered care means they are there to care about the family’ needs as well as the child’s. Children’s recognizes
the family plays a valuable role in child’s care - the family’s support and attention are essential and the hospital wants
to partner with each family on the care for their child. Since CHI staff understands the importance of the family, they realize each
child treated is a member of a unique family with varied values, needs, environments, cultures, resources and strengths.
Columbus Children’s Hospital believes a seamless experience is based upon effective communication and coordination,
which is an essential part of family-centered care. Services are viewed as a means to promote and maintain the
health of the child in the context of the family and community with attention to physical, emotional, developmental and
spiritual needs. The reflection of the ideals of family-centered care is seen in everyday
interaction with patients from all Children’s employees. The idea of family-centered care can also be seen in the
physical facility with 93% of the inpatient rooms having sleeping arrangements for the parents. Beside the physical facility,
the main hospital has several services that are offered with the
Sibling Support (Children’s Clubhouse) and
The Columbus Blue Jackets Foundation Family Resource Center.
The Children’s Clubhouse is a place for parents to take brothers and sisters of sick patients so they can play
with other children their age while their sibling is being cared for by the medical staff.
The Family Resource Center is available for families during their time at Children's Hospital both inpatient
and outpatient and provides services including showers, laundry facilities, a kitchen, and fitness area.

Education

Columbus Children’s Hospital houses the Department of Pediatrics for The Ohio State University School of Medicine.
Children’s is a teaching hospital offering high quality, nationally-recognized pediatric residencies and fellowships
in medical and surgical specialties. The residency programs offered are a
dual residency with OhioHealth’s Doctors Hospital,
Internal Medicine and Pediatric Residency,
Genetics Residency,
Pediatric Neurology,
Pediatric Pharmacy,
Pediatric Research Pathway,
Pediatric Residency, and
Pediatric Surgery. Fellowships are available in
33 areas of patient care,
including Cardiology, Child Abuse and Maltreatment,
Critical Care, Gastroenterology, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Ophthalmology, and Surgical Critical Care.

Research

Columbus Children’s Research Institute
is one of the fastest growing pediatric research centers in the United States.
Research at Children’s Hospital can be traced back to the start of the hospital, but back in those early days,
pediatric medicine was in its infancy, so it was not until after the Second World War that Children’s saw the beginning
of organized research. The first significant investigations were the recognition of E. coli III as a source
and cause of epidemic diarrhea, and the development of a successful treatment for histoplasmosis by Warren Wheeler, MD.
Fast forward to today, research at Columbus Children’s has grown to receive $41.7 million in external funding.
This was a record for the Research Institute and was a 29% increase in National Institute Health(NIH) funding for them.
Among free-standing children’s hospitals, The Research Institute ranks 9th based on NIH funding and amongst all other
pediatric research organizations they rank 18th based on NIH funding. Columbus Children’s Research Institute is organized into
Centers of Emphasis
that allow traditional academic boundaries to be crossed and merged and each of the Centers has a thematic focus,
ranging from the most basic molecular biology to applied, patient-oriented research.
The following are the Centers that the Research Institute operates
Biobehavioral Health,
Cardiovascular Medicine,
Cell and Developmental Biology,
Childhood Cancer,
Clinical and Translational Research,
Gene Therapy,
Injury Research and Policy,
Innovation in Pediatric Practice,
Microbial Pathogenesis,
Molecular and Human Genetics,
Perinatal Research,
Quantitative and Computational Biology, and
Vaccines and Immunity.
With 111 principal investigators on staff, 51 research fellows, 52 graduate students and a total of 725 employees
working at the Research Institute, there were more than 500 IRB-approved protocols in progress in 2006. Some of those notable studies
include the first human gene therapy trail directed as Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, which was launched under the direction of
Dr. Jerry Mendell as well as work on a vaccine to prevent ear infections.

Awards and Recognitions

In 2007, Columbus Children’s Hospital is…

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★ Ranked 6th on Child Magazine’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” List

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★ Ranked 1st by Child Magazine for Emergency Services were
In 2006, Columbus Children’s Hospital was…

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★ Ranked 22nd on U.S. News & World Report America's Best Hospitals List

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★ Named as one of the top three "Best Places to Work" in Columbus Business First's Best Places to Work Program

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★ Named to the first Leapfrog Top Hospitals list based on results from the Leapfrog Hospital Quality and Safety Survey

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★ Recognized in the Philanthropy 400 for the Foundation

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★ Successful in performing a "domino" heart transplant involving the youngest living heart donor

History

Columbus Children’s Hospital broke ground in 1892 and since then has grown into a place that occupies more than six square city blocks
with 1.5 million square feet of space at its downtown hospital and research campus. It is regarded as the nation’s 5th largest free-standing
children’s hospital and is among the top ten in National Institutes of Health-funded freestanding pediatric research centers.

Clinical Milestones

The hospital opened in 1894 with nine patient beds and that number quickly grew to fifteen beds. In 1923, the cornerstone for the
new hospital was laid; and in 1924, the new hospital opened accommodating 75 patients with the ability to expand to 150 beds immediately
and eventually to 300 beds. It was in 1931 that the hospital began taking private patients for $4 per week. Jumping ahead to 1954,
construction began on the Sellers Wing, which was a physical therapy building used to house polio patients. The federal government
granted money to be used for the establishment of C&Y (Children & Youth) Clinics throughout the city, in 1965. These clinics grew
into the Close To HomeSM network of clinics since government funding decreased and the hospital continued to privately support them.
The first successful kidney transplant in central Ohio was performed at Children’s in 1966, on an 11 year-old boy. Also in 1966 a
new infant intensive care service opened, specializing in the care of the seriously ill infants and was operated independently of the
regular intensive care unit. It was in 1999 that Children’s and OhioHealth announced a relationship to operate the Neonatal Special
and Intensive Care units at OhioHealth Central Ohio hospitals, which are Doctors Hospital West, Grant Medical Center, and Riverside
Methodist Hospital. In 2003, Children’s began an $80 million, 160,000 square-foot clinical expansion and started renovating 100,000
square-feet of existing space. Children’s becomes the first freestanding children’s hospital in Ohio to receive “Magnet Recognition”
in 2004, which is the highest honor for excellence in nursing. In 2005 Children’s performed its first lung transplant and in 2006,
a “Domino” and double lung transplant was performed at Children’s involving the world’s youngest living heart donor. The transplant
was performed successfully, by the Children’s Heart Center team lead by Dr. Mark Galantowicz.

Research Milestones

Children’s Hospital Investigative Laboratory Division, CHILD, was created in the 1950s when the hospital realized
a separate organization was needed to manage research. The first medical science research building at Children’s Hospital,
Ross Hall was completed in 1961. CHILD evolved into Children’s Hospital Research Foundation, a non-profit corporation that
was incorporated on May 12, 1964. Two years later in 1966, research expenditures exceeded $1 million for the first time.
And in 1987, the new Wexner Center for Pediatric Research opened. In 2003, Children’s Hospital Research Foundation was renamed
the Columbus Children’s Research Institute. Also that year, the Research Institute not only began a human testing phase for a new
HIV/AIDS vaccine, but they finished the year with $34 million in external research awards. A new 160,000 square-foot research building
opened in 2004. In 2006, the Nationwide Foundation donated a 10-year, $50 million gift supporting child safety and injury prevention,
neonatal intensive care, and the heart center at Columbus Children’s Hospital.

Education Milestones

In 1931, the Pediatric residency program began at Children’s Hospital. Six years later, in 1937, the teaching of pediatrics was moved
from the Starling Loving Hospital at The Ohio State University to Children’s Hospital. Dr. Earl H. Baxter became the first chairman of
The Ohio State University Department of Pediatrics in 1943. The Pediatric Pathology residency program begins in 1953 and followed by
the Pediatric Dentistry program in 1954. Dr. Bruce Graham became chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at OSU and Medical Director of
the hospital in 1964 and was the first to combine these two positions. Dr. Grant Morrow III becomes chairman of the Department of
Pediatrics at OSU and Medical Director of the hospital 1978. The Internal Medicine-Pediatrics residency program began in 1983, followed
by the Neonatology fellowship in 1984 and the Pediatric Hematology/Oncology fellowship in 1985. In 1990, construction began on the new
$18.3 million Education building that opened in 1992. Dr. Thomas N. Hansen was named as the chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at
OSU and Medical Director of the Hospital in 1995. The Department of Pediatrics was awarded the prestigious Ohio State University
Departmental Teaching Excellence Award in 1999 and the Educational Building was renamed the Ann Isaly Wolfe Education Building in
recognition of her enormous support. In 2003, new fellowship programs begin in Pediatric Nephrology, Pediatric Ophthalmology, and
Pediatric Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. A year later, another new residency program in Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery began.
In 2006, Columbus Children’s Hospital host, the inaugural
International Symposium on the Hybrid Approach to Congenital Heart Disease (ISHAC).

Future

In 2006, the Nationwide Foundation donated a 10-year, $50 million gift supporting child safety and injury prevention, neonatal
intensive care, and the heart center at Columbus Children’s Hospital. It was one of the largest philanthropic gifts ever from a
corporate foundation in the U.S. and also one of the top five largest single gifts ever given to a children’s hospital nationally or
internationally, based on data from 2006. In commemoration of Nationwide Foundation’s gift and the enormous impact it will have on
the delivery of world-class pediatric health care in central Ohio and beyond, the hospital’s Trustees voted to re-name the hospital to
Nationwide Children’s Hospital. The name change will go into effect on September 24, 2007. Along with the new name the hospital will
see the launch of a new logo which is the third logo change for the hospital in its 115 year history.
Columbus Children’s Hospital is looking forward to the future. They are working hard to position themselves as not just a leader
in the Midwest, but as a National leader for pediatric care. They are currently implementing the
“The Roadmap to Our Future,”
this strategic plan is best defined by their own words. “Our mission is to provide the highest quality care to all children regardless
of ability to pay. To attract top-notch talent and funding that will allow us to serve our mission; we aspire to set the standard for
quality care and patient experiences for our children. We will realize our vision by focusing on the three priorities of our strategic
plan: enhancing the patient experience, discovering new treatments and cures, and improving performance and capacity.”
Along with the strategic plan, the hospital is undergoing a huge building campaign that encompasses the construction of a new tower
for the main hospital building. It will have all-private patient rooms and will be designed with enhanced sleeping accommodations
for parents, hidden medical equipment and expanded personal space for use by patients and their families. Before construction can
begin, a new, state of the art power plant must be built, which is in its beginning phase construction, and should be completed in 2010.
There are also plans for a third research building in the existing complex that should begin in 2008 and will add 150,000 square feet to
the complex. A three-story facility, referred to as J-West Building, is already under construction and it will house Gastroenterology
services, Psychology and Clinical Sciences (diagnostics and Clinical studies). Construction has also already started on the new
1,500-space parking facility located across the street on Livingstone Ave. and is expected to open in early 2008. Unfotunatly this new design dissolves the residents who currently live in the area that is outlined. Moreover the homes set to be demolished carry a significant historical value to the predominantly African American Community of Driving Park. The plan had already removed a vibrant school from the neighborhood and will continue to move low income families and the project progresses.

External Link

Official Website
The CEO of Columbus children's is none other than the great Steven J. Allen.