Children's Hospitals

All children need children’s hospitals. Why? Children are not small adults. Constantly growing and changing, their health care needs are very different from adults. Children require more in specialized nursing, medications, and monitoring.


And children’s hospitals do more than provide inpatient care for children with severe and complex conditions

Children’s hospitals are “safety-net” providers for children who are uninsured or depend upon Medicaid

• Medicaid accounts for more than 55% of inpatient care and close to 50% of outpatient specialty care provided by children
• Children’s hospitals, particularly teaching hospitals, provide general pediatric services to many low-income children

Children’s hospitals train tomorrow’s pediatricians and pediatric specialists

• Three South Carolina children’s hospitals have pediatric residency programs and specialist training programs.

Children’s hospitals are instrumental in conducting research.

• South Carolina's children's hospitals generate millions of funding every year - a "win-win" for children and South Carolina's economy.
• MUSC operates the Charles P. Darby Children’s Research Institute, a state of the art research facility dedicated to basic and translational research in children’s health.

Children’s hospitals are actively engaged in community outreach and advocacy programs.

For more information about children’s hospitals, visit the National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions.