Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital
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Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital is a 244-bed children's hospital located in Cleveland, Ohio
. It is a part of University Hospitals Case Medical Center, formerly University Hospitals of Cleveland
. It is consistently ranked as one of the top three pediatric hospital in the Midwest and a top 10 children's hospital by U.S. News & World Report
. In 2008, Rainbow ranked #2 in the country for neonatal care.
Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital is over 120 years old, and has over 850 physicians, nurses, child life specialists, social workers, and other professionals dedicated to the unique care of children. Rainbow is a world leader in the treatment of children with cancer, heart disease, cystic fibrosis and pulmonary specialties, sickle cell disease, kidney disease, immunology and endocrine and metabolic disorders. Its neonatologists specialize in in the treatment of high-risk and premature newborns. As an academic medical center, the primary affiliate of Case Western Reserve University
, Rainbow offers children emerging therapies before they become widely available.
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(NICU) cares for more than 1,300 premature and critically ill babies each year. It serves a 12-county area in Northeast Ohio with a pediatric population of nearly one million. The National Institutes of Health
have designated it as a level III Neonatal Research Center – the highest available designation.
Rainbow's NICU is one of only 21 units in the country deemed a National Research Center by NIH. Its team of 22 NICU doctors and six neonatology fellows have authored medical textbooks and directed innovative studies in research and clinical care of high-risk and low-birth weight babies.
(ECMO) treatment without transporting the baby.
Rainbow's NICU admits approximately 1,000 newborns annually and also serves as the ECMO referral center for Northeast Ohio. The last major renovation of the NICU occurred over 16 years ago.
(PICU) is a 16-bed combined medical-surgical unit which cares for more than 1500 critically ill children each year. An attending intensivist from the Division of Pediatric Critical Care coordinates care, in close cooperation with children's primary pediatricians and medical and surgical subspecialists.
and music therapy
, animal-assisted therapy
, a multimedia
library, on-site school teachers who make sure children stay up-to-date on homework, and The Rainbow Channel, the hospital's own commercial free, interactive, television channel geared toward children and families.
Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
. It is a part of University Hospitals Case Medical Center, formerly University Hospitals of Cleveland
University Hospitals of Cleveland
University Hospitals is a major not-for-profit medical center in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Case Medical Center is the primary affiliate hospital of Case Western Reserve University - a relationship that was first established in 1896...
. It is consistently ranked as one of the top three pediatric hospital in the Midwest and a top 10 children's hospital by U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report is an American news magazine published from Washington, D.C. Along with Time and Newsweek it was for many years a leading news weekly, focusing more than its counterparts on political, economic, health and education stories...
. In 2008, Rainbow ranked #2 in the country for neonatal care.
Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital is over 120 years old, and has over 850 physicians, nurses, child life specialists, social workers, and other professionals dedicated to the unique care of children. Rainbow is a world leader in the treatment of children with cancer, heart disease, cystic fibrosis and pulmonary specialties, sickle cell disease, kidney disease, immunology and endocrine and metabolic disorders. Its neonatologists specialize in in the treatment of high-risk and premature newborns. As an academic medical center, the primary affiliate of Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA...
, Rainbow offers children emerging therapies before they become widely available.
Rankings
2009 US News and World Report National Rankings| Child Specialty | National Rank |
|---|---|
| Neonatal Care | 2 |
| Respiratory Disorders | 10 |
| Diabetes & Endocrine Disorders | 13 |
| Orthopedics | 13 |
| Neurology & Neurosurgery | 18 |
| Kidney Disorders | 19 |
| Digestive Disorders | 25 |
| Cancer | 30 |
- Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, is ranked #2 nationally for Neonatal Care by U.S. News & World ReportU.S. News & World ReportU.S. News & World Report is an American news magazine published from Washington, D.C. Along with Time and Newsweek it was for many years a leading news weekly, focusing more than its counterparts on political, economic, health and education stories...
.. - In biomedical research, Case Medical Center ranks among top 15 centers in the United States with approximately $75 million in annual extramural research funding and a further $10 million in various clinical trials.
- University Hospitals of Cleveland also includes MacDonald Women's Hospital, Ohio's only hospital for women; and Ireland Cancer Center, which holds the nation's highest designation by the National Cancer Institute of Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Clinical trials
Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital regularly conducts clinical trials to continue to improve upon existing treatments and therapies and discover new breakthroughs in the treatment of pediatric health disorders including pediatric oncology, depressionClinical depression
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NICU
Rainbow's neonatal intensive care unitNeonatal intensive care unit
A Neonatal Intensive Care Unit —also called a Special Care Nursery, newborn intensive care unit, intensive care nursery , and special care baby unit —is an intensive care unit specializing in the care of ill or premature newborn infants.The problem of premature and congenitally ill infants is not a...
(NICU) cares for more than 1,300 premature and critically ill babies each year. It serves a 12-county area in Northeast Ohio with a pediatric population of nearly one million. The National Institutes of Health
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health are an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and are the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. Its science and engineering counterpart is the National Science Foundation...
have designated it as a level III Neonatal Research Center – the highest available designation.
Rainbow's NICU is one of only 21 units in the country deemed a National Research Center by NIH. Its team of 22 NICU doctors and six neonatology fellows have authored medical textbooks and directed innovative studies in research and clinical care of high-risk and low-birth weight babies.
Renovation plans
Rainbow's NICU has completed a large-scale renovation and expansion. The 38-bed NICU now connects to a 44-bed neonatal transitional unit on the same floor, several feet away from the delivery rooms at MacDonald Women's Hospital. Improvements include more bedside privacy for parents; an increase in the number of advanced diagnostic and imaging equipment; and also the ability to provide extracorporeal membrane oxygenationExtracorporeal membrane oxygenation
In intensive care medicine, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation is an extracorporeal technique of providing both cardiac and respiratory support oxygen to patients whose heart and lungs are so severely diseased or damaged that they can no longer serve their function...
(ECMO) treatment without transporting the baby.
Rainbow's NICU admits approximately 1,000 newborns annually and also serves as the ECMO referral center for Northeast Ohio. The last major renovation of the NICU occurred over 16 years ago.
PICU
Rainbow's pediatric intensive care unitPediatric intensive care unit
A pediatric intensive care unit , usually abbreviated to PICU , is an area within a hospital specializing in the care of critically ill infants, children, and teenagers....
(PICU) is a 16-bed combined medical-surgical unit which cares for more than 1500 critically ill children each year. An attending intensivist from the Division of Pediatric Critical Care coordinates care, in close cooperation with children's primary pediatricians and medical and surgical subspecialists.
Family and child life services
Rainbow's Family and Child Life Services Department employs a team of professionals whose responsibility is to ensure the best physical and mental care for patients, families and others involved in the child's care. Child life specialists provide individual consultations to help patients and families manage stress and understand various medical procedures. The department also gives patients access to artArt therapy
Because of its dual origins in art and psychotherapy, art therapy definitions vary. They commonly either lean more toward the ART art-making process as therapeutic in and of itself, "art as therapy," or focus on the psychotherapeutic transference process between the therapist and the client who...
and music therapy
Music therapy
Music therapy is an allied health profession and one of the expressive therapies, consisting of an interpersonal process in which a trained music therapist uses music and all of its facets—physical, emotional, mental, social, aesthetic, and spiritual—to help clients to improve or maintain their...
, animal-assisted therapy
Animal-Assisted Therapy
Animal-assisted therapy is a relatively new field of study, although the human-animal bond has existed for thousands of years. AAT is a type of therapy that involves animals as a form of treatment. The goal of AAT is to improve a patient’s social, emotional, or cognitive functioning...
, a multimedia
Multimedia
Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...
library, on-site school teachers who make sure children stay up-to-date on homework, and The Rainbow Channel, the hospital's own commercial free, interactive, television channel geared toward children and families.