University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina's Children's Hospital

Children's Hospital is a comprehensive health care facility for the care of sick and injured infants and children.

Services provided include care for children with a wide variety of problems and illnesses such as prematurity, heart disease, cancer, cystic fibrosis, trauma from accidents, asthma, nutritional problems, genetic disabilities, emotional and social problems, rehabilitation needs, infections and others.

Children's Hospital was formed in February, 1986, to unify and identify all children's services. While each of the units and services have unique aspects, all are linked by their commitment to the concept of a family-centered, multi-disciplinary approach to care. Care of the family is as much a part of treatment as are medications, machines, surgery, etc. Each patient and his/her family is cared for by a team that includes physicians, nurses, social workers, respiratory therapists, lab technicians, occupational therapists, physical therapists, child life specialists, pharmacists, school teachers, discharge planners and a wide variety of other specialists.

Children's Hospital offers a pediatric/neonatal transport service throughout the 29 counties in eastern North Carolina that the hospital serves. Transport can be done both by the ground transport unit and helicopter, bringing sick children and infants to the hospital. It also returns some of those children, who are well enough, to go to their local hospitals.

Children's Hospital is a division of Pitt County Memorial Hospital and a part of the University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina and is closely affiliated with the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. It was established as a division of Pitt County Memorial Hospital under a "hospital within a hospital" concept. Although the Children's Hospital is not in a building separate from Pitt Memorial, it does have its own entrance and newly designed visitors' lobby. All pediatric services are unified under a single organizational umbrella and with a single purpose.

Children's Hospital has seven inpatient units: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Neonatal Intermediate ICU, Newborn (well baby) Nursery, Pediatrics, Pediatric ICU, Pediatric Rehabilitation. There are also a variety of outpatient ambulatory care units providing care to children. Some of these are Ambulatory Surgery, Ambulatory Medicine, Observation-Holding Unit, Emergency Department, Surgicenter and Ambulatory Radiology Unit. Over 6,500 children under the age of 17 were treated at Children's Hospital last year.