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The hospital treats infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21 [2] [3] [4] and even some adults who require pediatric care. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] CHKD is a 206-bed hospital and serves the medical and surgical needs of children throughout the greater Hampton Roads metro area, the Eastern Shore of Virginia and northeastern North Carolina .
Affiliated with Eastern Virginia Medical School: Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU: Richmond: 208 [21] Virginia Commonwealth University: CHoR has 168 dedicated (staffed) inpatient pediatric beds and VCU Medical Center offers an additional 40 beds in specialized inpatient units that provide care for both children and adults.
The idea gained the support of the Virginia General Assembly and the city councils of Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk and Virginia Beach. March 31, 1964, the General Assembly authorized the formation of what was then known as the Norfolk Area Medical Center Authority. [6]
The hospital has multiple patient care units to care for a variety of pediatric patients from age 0-21. [22] 38-bed Pediatric and Adolescent units [22] 20-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit [23] 54-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit [24]
Booth Memorial Hospital is the name of any of the hospitals affiliated with The Salvation Army (TSA); the latter was "founded by William Booth in 1878." The first of these "opened Booth Memorial in Manhattan in 1914 and its center in Flushing in 1957." [1] [2] Salvation Army Booth Memorial Hospital is a longer name used for some of them. [3]
Sentara Norfolk General Hospital (SNGH) is a large academic hospital, which serves as the primary teaching institution for the adjacent Eastern Virginia Medical School. Located in Norfolk, Virginia , in the Ghent neighborhood and adjacent to Downtown, the hospital serves as the Hampton Roads region's only Level I trauma center . [ 1 ]
Miller Children's and Women's is one of only eight free-standing children's hospitals in California — treating more than 14,000 children each year — and has become a regional pediatric destination for more than 84,000 children, who need specialized care in the outpatient specialty and satellite centers.
Pediatric nurse practitioners are capable of performing many tasks other pediatricians and physicians perform. These tasks include developmental screenings, physical assessments (vision, hearing and dental), school and sport physicals, vaccines and diagnosing common childhood illnesses such as allergies, ear infections and skin conditions. [6]