About Nationwide Children's Hospital
At Nationwide Children’s Hospital, our vision remains unchanged. We aspire to create the best outcomes for children everywhere. This means families come to Nationwide Children’s from around the globe knowing they will get the highest quality care. It means we will reach to cure rare diseases. It means we will sequence a child’s tumor to select the best care pathway. It means we will strive to make an entire population healthier, not just through their physical health, but also in their mental health. It means we will redefine the role of the children’s hospital in the achievement of optimal health.
There is Something Remarkable Happening Here
Nationwide Children’s began in 1894 with nine beds and a commitment to care for every child in need. Today, with more than 65 sites and over one million patient visits per year, it’s still meeting that promise – from Columbus to Cairo.
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Did You Know?
Nationwide Children's is America's Second Largest Pediatric Hospital with more than 1.7 million patient visits each year. Families travel from around the nation and around the globe to access life-saving treatments – many unavailable anywhere else. We are 68 facilities extending out across Ohio and beyond. Here, we have the pediatric expertise every child needs. Here, the future health and potential of all children, is being shaped.
Redefining the Future of Pediatric Care
Nationwide Children’s Hospital is revealing the future of child health because it’s helping define it. Health care that is family-centered and child-focused. Accountable in quality and cost. Equating behavioral and mental health equally with physical health. And dedicated to translating our research discoveries into practice.
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Everyone Matters: Our Commitment to Diversity & Health Equity
Our hospital made a promise to not only acknowledge, but foster and celebrate the diversity of each other, our patients, families, visitors, and many physician and community partners. Why? Because being inclusive and welcoming makes us better-suited to take care of those who need our help.
Our Commitment to Diversity
Working Together to Achieve Best Outcomes
Collaboration is a critical part of Nationwide Children's Hospital strategy to improve the lives of children everywhere. Programs such as access to healthcare through schools, education of clinical teams, neighborhood safety and healthy home environments are all robust initiatives and cannot happen without strong partnerships.
We know it takes extensive resources to treat children locally, regionally and from all around the world. Our mission is best served when we work together with other organizations to help the future of our children and our own community.
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Clinical Partnerships
We are proud to collaborate and lend our pediatric expertise to several children’s as well as adult hospitals in the state of Ohio and beyond. We work in partnership with Heart Services, Urology, emergency services and various NICU’s in and around central Ohio. By coming together, we add to the power of knowledge and expertise of medical care for children all over the state.
Education & Training
Learning is a part of everything we do. Together, with our partners, our learning programs range from those that help patients and families understand their diagnoses and treatments, enhancing the skill and competence of current pediatric providers to training future generations of clinical and research experts.
Research Partnerships
Our partnerships are a defining piece of our culture at Nationwide Children's Hospital. Our collaborations lead to discoveries meant to help children worldwide, not limiting our reach to only one part of the state or country.
Philanthropy
When you give to Nationwide Children’s Hospital, you change lives. Generous partners from across the country play an enormous part in enabling Nationwide Children’s to change the future of pediatric research and care. These supporters make stories of hope possible.
Community and Advocacy
Achieving best outcomes for all children requires working with governmental leaders and community advocates at all levels – local, state and national. So much of the health care conversation is focused on adults. And it’s often conducted by people who don’t have front-line experience helping children. It’s up to us, as members of the child health and well-being community, to stand up for those who need our care.
