Celebrating 20 years of healing, hope and miracles with 20 things to love about Children’s Hospital of Georgia
- Children’s Hospital of Georgia opened December 8, 1998
- It’s the only facility in the area dedicated exclusively to children and is home to the region’s only Pediatric Cancer and Blood Disorder Clinic and pediatric tertiary care referral hospital
- Children’s is home to the area’s only pediatric trauma care, with a Level I Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and a Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, complete with pediatric and neonatal air and ground transport teams
- Provides ground and air transportation for patients in 159 Georgia counties and neighboring states
- Children’s has the region’s only dedicated 16-bed pediatric emergency room with pediatric trauma surgeons available 24/7
- More than 25,000 kids come through the ED each year
- Developed Georgia’s first ECMO program, earning six international excellence awards
- Region’s only hybrid pediatric heart catheterization suite and only pediatric heart surgeons
- In-house pediatric research unit on the fifth floor
- Provides couplet care – mom and baby cared for under one roof inside the children’s hospital
- Our specialists have been recognized by prestigious organizations such as Best Doctors and America’s Top Doctors
- Our physicians examine 90,000 children in our clinics each year
- Nearly 4,000 children a year are admitted to this hospital
- Only local hospital with onsite Ronald McDonald House: home-away-from-home for families of hospitalized children
- Largest team of local child life specialists to explain care and put patients and families at ease
- Interpreter services for families in virtually every language
- Dedicated children’s chapel and full-time chaplains
- Visits from Nugget, a full-time facility dog, who works exclusively for Children’s Hospital
- There’s a huge indoor playground for patients and siblings, as well as two smaller inpatient playrooms
- Roary, the Children’s mascot, was born June 25, 2015
