Erie Avenue at Front Street
Philadelphia, PA
215-427-5000
St.
Christopher’s Hospital for Children, is a 161-bed hospital that
provides a wide range of pediatric medical and surgical specialties through
its affiliation with Drexel University College of Medicine. It includes major
centers of clinical excellence in organ transplantation (heart, liver and
kidney), neonatal intensive care, ECMO program, burn treatment, cystic fibrosis
and pulmonary disease, cardiology, dialysis, neurosciences, ambulatory surgery;
emergency medicine; cleft lip and palate, craniofacial surgery, dentistry,
child psychiatry, radiology and laboratory medicine.
A brief glance at some vital statistics:
Beds: 161 licensed beds
Rooms: 44 single rooms, 33 double rooms
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: 30 beds
Transplant/Oncology Unit: 7 beds
Cardiac Care Unit: 8 beds
Intensive Care Unit: 8 beds
Special Care Unit: 12 beds
Operating Rooms: 6 operating rooms, 9 recovery rooms
Short Procedure Unit: 10 beds
Burn Center: 5 beds
Emergency Department: 20 examining rooms
Specialties
Our comprehensive continuum of departments and clinical sections enable us
to cover a wide range of pediatric medicine. From heart or lung conditions
to diseases of any other organs; from conditions involving genetics, birth,
or physical problems to those related to the immediate environment, as well
as those involving family or other social factors; from afflictions involving
pain to those involving impairment of senses or mental capacity; and all manner
of routine healthy-child care - we respond with the confident know-how of
practitioners and teams specially focused on treating children in each of
these areas.
