The Department of Pediatrics is an outstanding resource for the primary, specialty and critical care of children. Our mission focuses on excellence in clinical care, research and education.
We are responsible for 142 inpatient beds -- 106 at University Hospital (32 general inpatient, 14 intermediate care, 10 PICU, 30 NICU, and 10 NICU stepdown) and 36 at Mercy Medical Center, our community affiliate as well as two full-term nursery practices -- There are approximately 4,500 admissions annually. Ambulatory visits total over 100,000 annually -- 75,000 at University and 25,000 at Mercy. Our services range from primary care to highly specialized treatment programs that attract patients from the entire mid-Atlantic region.
Our Mercy Medical Center operation, staffed by full-time faculty, is an integral part of our program. It affords housestaff opportunities which complement the University Hospital experience. The Community Practice Program allows our residents to develop a longitudinal one-on-one relationship with a community pediatrician. They gain insight into the role that the practicing pediatrician plays in the community, with families, and in child advocacy.
Active working relationships exist with virtually all clinical departments in the hospital. Especially strong are the department’s linkages with psychiatry, OB/GYN, internal medicine, emergency medicine, and surgery.
The department has over 130,000 square feet of space in the Medical Center. All inpatients are on two floors, creating a "hospital within a hospital" dedicated to pediatrics. A new state of the art pediatric emergency department is now contiguous with the new adult emergency department.
All inpatient rooms are private or semi-private and afford rooming-in for family. On-call rooms, convenient for housestaff, are in all inpatient areas and in the emergency room. A pediatric pharmacy and a NICU lab are also located in the central inpatient area.
Our department ranks in the top ten among all state university pediatric departments in federal research grant awards. Overall, grants and contracts total more than $19 million.
Our commitment to research is strong, and residents devote some time to a research interest. A research project, bench or clinical, is required, and a prize is awarded for the outstanding research effort.
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