Becker's Hospital Review Names 50 Hospitals with Innovation Programs

October 3, 2016

NOTE TO EDITOR:  The Center for Innovation in Pediatric Practice in The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital is one of the 50 programs listed

CHICAGO (October 3, 2016, 10 a.m. CDT) — Becker's Hospital Review is pleased to release the 2016 edition of its list of 50 Hospitals with Innovation Programs.

While some hospitals on this list have a specific center dedicated to innovation and others have an established commercialization arm with its own governing board, they all demonstrate a commitment to bettering healthcare by tackling the biggest challenges facing patient care and care delivery.

Becker's Hospital Review has published a version of this list since 2015, and this is the first time it has featured 50 hospitals.

The Becker's Hospital Review editorial team considered nominations and conducted editorial research to select the hospitals included on this list.

The full list features individual profiles of all hospitals on the list.

The full list can be read here: http://bit.ly/2dgSM5Q

Note: This list is not an endorsement of included hospitals, health systems or associated healthcare providers, and organizations cannot pay for inclusion on this list. Organizations are presented in alphabetical order.

About Becker’s Hospital Review
Becker's Hospital Review is a monthly publication offering up-to-date business and legal news and analysis relating to hospitals and health systems. Articles are geared toward high-level hospital leaders, and we work to provide valuable information, including hospital and health system news, best practices and legal guidance specifically for these decision-makers. Each issue of Becker's Hospital Review reaches more than 18,000 people, primarily acute care hospital CEOs, CFOs and CIOs.

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About Nationwide Children's Hospital

Named to the Top 10 Honor Roll on U.S. News & World Report’s 2024-25 list of “Best Children’s Hospitals,” Nationwide Children’s Hospital is one of America’s largest not-for-profit free-standing pediatric health care systems providing unique expertise in pediatric population health, behavioral health, genomics and health equity as the next frontiers in pediatric medicine, leading to best outcomes for the health of the whole child. Integrated clinical and research programs, as well as prioritizing quality and safety, are part of what allows Nationwide Children’s to advance its unique model of care. Nationwide Children’s has a staff of more than 16,000 that provides state-of-the-art wellness, preventive and rehabilitative care and diagnostic treatment during more than 1.8 million patient visits annually. As home to the Department of Pediatrics of The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Nationwide Children’s physicians train the next generation of pediatricians and pediatric specialists. The Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital is one of the Top 10 National Institutes of Health-funded free-standing pediatric research facilities. More information is available at NationwideChildrens.org.