North Carolina Children's Hospital at UNC

Protecting the health of North Carolina's children

The faculty of the UNC School of Medicine's Department of Pediatrics offers complete inpatient and outpatient care at N.C. Children's Hospital's state-of-the-art facility at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill and at more than 25 satellite outpatient subspecialty clinics throughout North Carolina.

N.C. Children's Hospital protects the health of North Carolina's 2.1 million children by aligning premier health care practitioners, world-class medical education, and innovative research to provide the highest quality care, regardless of a family's ability to pay.

As a major referral center for children with complex conditions,
N.C. Children's Hospital has more than 100 pediatric subspecialists who, working hand-in-hand with community hospitals and pediatricians all across the state, provide specialty care to more than 70,000 children from all 100 counties throughout North Carolina each year.

Medical specialties:

• All pediatric and pediatric surgical subspecialties represented.
  • More than two dozen pediatric subspecialties
  • 10 pediatric surgical specialties
• Ranked in 10 of 10 U.S. News Media Group's "America's Best Children's Hospitals" ranking categories, including a Top 10 ranking in pulmonology—the only top 10 ranking achieved by any children's hospital in North Carolina.
  • One of the country's most experienced hospitals in invasive bronchoscopy, a diagnostic procedure to look inside a child's lungs with a special instrument.
• More children have surgery at N.C. Children's Hospital than anywhere else in the state.
• Only children's hospital in North Carolina with dedicated, centralized pediatric operating suite.
  • All six pediatric operating rooms specially designed and decorated for children.
• 30 percent of children's surgeries use minimally invasive techniques for less pain and discomfort and faster recovery.

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