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Founded by a determined group of women in 1892, Nationwide Children's Hospital began as a local charity to serve a dozen very ill children. Throughout the following century, this tiny community-funded mission matured into a health care system that today spans the Midwest as one of its preferred providers of pediatric health care. Nationwide Children's today is ranked as one of the nation’s ten largest children’s hospitals and pediatric research centers.

On September 24, 2007, Columbus Children's Hospital officially became Nationwide Children's Hospital in honor of a transformational gift from Nationwide Foundation and the landmark impact it will have on the delivery of world-class pediatric health care in central Ohio and beyond.

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