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- Construction is underway on the new 252,000-square-foot Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital. The five-story building with an additional floor below ground will be built adjacent to the Medical Center’s main entrance. The facility will include pediatric surgical suites, private pediatric and adolescent patient rooms, outpatient clinics for children with cancer, and a new pediatric radiology unit.
- The Children’s Hospital is the region’s only children’s hospital and only Level 1 pediatric trauma center. Children’s Hospital also performs the region’s only bone marrow stem cell and kidney transplants for pediatric patients.
- The Children’s Hospital consists of more than 150 pediatric medical and surgical specialists renowned in disciplines such as cancer, cardiology, and critical care.
- The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is the only fully equipped and staffed academic level IIIC (highest level possible) NICU between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.
- The Children’s Hospital was selected as one of Aetna’s Institutes of Excellence™ Pediatric Congenital Heart Surgery facilities.
- The Children's Hospital was ranked by US News & World Report as one of America’s Best Children’s Hospitals in 2008.
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