OSF HealthCare Children’s Hospital of Illinois: Making an Impact in So Many Ways

It's not.

It's incredibly complex and an investment from OSF Healthcare as an organization and the Children's Hospital with our mission partners and our physicians as well.

Yeah, I think for the neonatology, I mean, American Academy of Pediatrics has had those levels for some time.

Illinois will be adopting those levels hopefully over this next one to two years as they pivot to the most complex with a congenital heart center versus, you know, yes, we take care of small babies, but if they need surgery or let alone congenital, heart surgery, they can't happen here.

So for a level four nursery, that's all encompassing for any age, gestation, or health condition child could stay here.

So I think that's very important for parents maybe who are expecting if there's ever a diagnosis that they get They know it can be cared for here locally.

I think from a trauma designation, we're state designated.

There's two designation sort of pathways.

They're American College of Surgeons designation as well as state designation.

But I think for level one, it's that no matter what happens to your child in accidents, injuries are the leading cause of death in children.

And that's, we're fortunate, right? Kids aren't getting a lot of things that we deal with on the adulthood spectrum.

but that we have the full complement of anesthesia, surgery, surgical subspecialties, ICU care to take care of the children.

Just to run through a few stats for those listening, more than 7,000 inpatient admissions a year, 75,000 outpatient specialty visits.

So while we think of the inpatient world, there's a lot of clinics and we take the clinics to them, which also helps.

2,400 newborn deliveries, 18,000 emergency department visits each year.

So to your point, that's a lot of kids coming through the doors that you may not think it happens.

And there's a separate entrance.

There's a separate everything for the children who are coming in because it's scary.

Nobody wants to go to the hospital, let alone come into an emergency department.

It's not.

It's incredibly complex and an investment from OSF Healthcare as an organization and the Children's Hospital with our mission partners and our physicians as well.

Yeah, I think for the neonatology, I mean, American Academy of Pediatrics has had those levels for some time.

Illinois will be adopting those levels hopefully over this next one to two years as they pivot to the most complex with a congenital heart center versus, you know, yes, we take care of small babies, but if they need surgery or let alone congenital, heart surgery, they can't happen here.

So for a level four nursery, that's all encompassing for any age, gestation, or health condition child could stay here.

So I think that's very important for parents maybe who are expecting if there's ever a diagnosis that they get They know it can be cared for here locally.

I think from a trauma designation, we're state designated.

There's two designation sort of pathways.

They're American College of Surgeons designation as well as state designation.

But I think for level one, it's that no matter what happens to your child in accidents, injuries are the leading cause of death in children.

And that's, we're fortunate, right? Kids aren't getting a lot of things that we deal with on the adulthood spectrum.

but that we have the full complement of anesthesia, surgery, surgical subspecialties, ICU care to take care of the children.

Just to run through a few stats for those listening, more than 7,000 inpatient admissions a year, 75,000 outpatient specialty visits.

So while we think of the inpatient world, there's a lot of clinics and we take the clinics to them, which also helps.

2,400 newborn deliveries, 18,000 emergency department visits each year.

So to your point, that's a lot of kids coming through the doors that you may not think it happens.

And there's a separate entrance.

There's a separate everything for the children who are coming in because it's scary.

Nobody wants to go to the hospital, let alone come into an emergency department.