Triangle Hospital & Birthing Center Profiles

UNC Children's Hospital

Overview

The North Carolina Children’s Hospital meets the health care needs of North Carolina’s 2.1 million children by aligning premier health care professionals, quality medical education, and innovative research to provide high-quality care regardless of a family’s ability to pay.

The UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics faculty offers complete inpatient and outpatient care at N.C. Children’s Hospital’s state-of-the-art facility at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill and at more than 25 satellite outpatient clinics throughout North Carolina.

Number of Children Treated

As a major referral center for children with complex conditions, N.C. Children’s Hospital physicians work with community hospitals and pediatricians across the state to provide specialty care for more than 70,000 children from all 100 counties each year.

Specialties

N.C. Children’s Hospital’s specialty-trained physicians, nurses and clinical staff offer expert care in the following pediatric subspecialties: allergy, anesthesiology, cardiology, critical care, dentistry, dermatology, developmental-behavioral medicine, emergency medicine, endocrinology, gastroenterology, general pediatrics/adolescent medicine, genetics-metabolism, hematology-oncology, immunology, infectious disease, neonatal-perinatal medicine, nephrology, ophthalmology, psychiatry/psychology, pulmonology, radiology, rehabilitation, and urology.

Pediatric surgery specialties include general surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, neurosurgery, oral surgery maxillofacial surgery, orthopaedic surgery, otolaryngology surgery head/neck surgery, and plastic surgery.

Specialty Care Units

N.C. Children’s Hospital’s inpatient services include neonatal intensive care, pediatric intensive care, cardiac intensive care, and general medical and surgical care for children. The Children’s Hospital also has a Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center.

Patient and Family Care

N.C. Children’s Hospital has 136 inpatient beds. These include: a 64-bed inpatient unit, an 8-bed intermediate cardiac care center, a 48-bed newborn critical care center and a 16-bed pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). The hospital also has an 8-bed short stay unit for children requiring less than 24 hours of inpatient care.

All inpatient rooms are private, featuring private bathrooms with tubs and showers and convertible sofas to accommodate parents staying with children. Specialty-units offer family sleep rooms. Inpatients have access to supervised play facilities, including a two-story indoor play atrium, a music room, and a teen activity center where children can relieve the stress associated with hospitalization.

The Children’s Hospital also offers a state-accredited Hospital School for children in grades K-12.

Outpatient Care

N.C. Children’s Hospital’s outpatient center in Chapel Hill includes general and primary pediatric care clinics and subspecialty care in the above pediatric subspecialties. Satellite outpatient sites include the N.C. Children’s Specialty Clinic on the Rex Healthcare campus in Raleigh, and an extension of the N.C. Children’s Hospital’s outpatient clinic in Chapel Hill. In addition, more than two dozen remote clinics offer care in Alamance County, Asheville, Cary, Charlotte, Fayetteville, Greensboro, Lumberton, Rutherfordton, Wilmington and other locations.