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Children’s National Medical Center (formerly referred to as DC Children’s Hospital), is the only exclusive provider of pediatric care in the Washington, D.C., area and the only freestanding children’s hospital between Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Norfolk, and Atlanta.〔(US News ), Best Hospitals - Children's National Medical Center.〕 Located just north of the McMillan Reservoir and Howard University, it shares grounds with Washington Hospital Center, National Rehabilitation Hospital, and the DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center. It is a not-for-profit institution that holds 303 beds, 54 of which are level III C NICU bassinets. Children’s National cares for patients through more than 360,000 visits each year and is the regional referral center for pediatric emergency, trauma, cancer, cardiac, and critical care as well as neonatology, orthopaedic surgery, neurology, and neurosurgery. 〔(About CNMC ), Children's National Medical Center.〕 Children's National is ranked among the best pediatric hospitals in the United States by U.S. News & World Report and The Leapfrog Group.〔http://www.emediawire.com/releases/ChildrensNational/best_pediatric_hospitals/prweb2551674.htm〕 Business Week featured the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit in July 2008.〔http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_25/b4089046084131.htm〕 Children's National is a teaching hospital of The George Washington University School of Medicine. == Services and Programs == Division of Oncology: The Division of Oncology at Children’s National Medical Center strives to cure cancer and minimize the side effects of treatment. Children’s National has access to Children’s Oncology Group’s Phase I trials and Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium protocols.〔 Children’s National Heart Institute: The Institute is made up of the departments of Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery, Cardiac Intensive Care, and Cardiac Anesthesia. Cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, interventionalists, cardiac intensivists, anesthesiologists, and fetal heart specialists care for a wide range of congenital heart problems.〔 Children's National Division of Neurosurgery: The neurosurgery team tackles complex cases using image-guided surgery, gamma knife, and minimally invasive approaches. The Division of Neurology at Children’s National treats a range of pediatric conditions, including autism, brain tumors, epilepsy, headaches, learning disabilities, migraines, movement disorders, neonatal neurology, neurogenetic diseases, neuromuscular diseases, stroke, and white matter diseases.〔 Children's National Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU): The 54-bed NICU is the region’s only level III C and is housed in new facilities with private patient rooms. The NICU provides care for premature infants, and premature and term infants with respiratory distress/failure and sepsis or septic shock.〔 Children’s Research Institute: Children’s Research Institute is a top ranked pediatric research institution in terms of overall National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding. Principal investigators and physicians work side by side.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Children's National Medical Center」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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