Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota
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Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota is one of the largest children’s health care
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 organization in the U.S.A, with 326 staffed beds at its two hospital campuses in St. Paul and Minneapolis. An independent, not-for-profit
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 health care system
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, Children’s of Minnesota provides care through over 13,000 inpatient visits and more than 200,000 emergency room and other outpatient visits each year.

Children's has a full range of pediatric specialty services
Pediatrics
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, critical care
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, and clinics to serve premature infants
Premature birth
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 through older teens. While Children's serves thousands of the region's sick children each year, the organization also strives to keep children well and to prevent illness and injury. Children's of Minnesota also includes Children’s Clinics - Woodwinds, specialty and rehabilitation clinics in Woodbury; Children's - Roseville, a rehabilitation clinic in Roseville; and Children's West, an outpatient surgery
Outpatient surgery
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, diagnostic center, and rehabilitation clinic in Minnetonka.

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