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2023

Care

For the first time, Cincinnati Children’s is ranked #1 in the nation in the 2023-24 list of Best Children’s Hospitals published by U.S. News & World Report.

For more than a decade, U.S. News has ranked us among the top three overall in the nation. We have also consistently placed in the top 10 in all 10 pediatric specialty categories. In 2023 we ranked #1 in four areas: cancer care, diabetes & endocrinology, neonatology and urology.

The Mental Health Trajectories Program.
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Cure

Cincinnati Children’s invests more than $10 million to support the initial research to develop The Mental Health Trajectories Program led by John Pestian, PhD, MBA, and colleagues in collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratories. The program uses Artificial intelligence (AI) to identify kids at greatest risk of developing a mental illness with 75-80% accuracy.

The William K. Schubert, MD Mental Health Center in College Hill.
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Care

The William K. Schubert, MD Mental Health Center in College Hill opens. The new College Hill mental health facility has 83 private treatment rooms, intake space, a cafeteria and an enhanced educational center. The facility was designed around the concept of patients moving throughout the space during the day, like they would in school.

The Employee Time To Give program.
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2022

Culture

The Employee Time To Give program allows non-clinical staff to directly connect with the mission of Cincinnati Children’s. Employees can step out of their usual duties and share their time helping our clinical teams. Employees receive their regular pay for up to four hours of service per year to the health system during their regular work schedule.

2020

Pursuing Our Potential Together expresses Cincinnati Children’s shared 150th birthday aspirations. Through 2033 and beyond, we are on a journey to become an even stronger organization and to attain ambitious goals for our patients, our people and our community. We will accomplish this by focusing on the four C’s: Care, Community, Cure and Culture.

When Cincinnati Children's asked local musicians to collaborate for an uplifting project to make people feel good during the COVID-19 pandemic, dozens came through. They performed Bill Withers’ "Lean On Me" from their living rooms.
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Community

As One Cincinnati Children’s, our employees successfully respond to the coronavirus — providing the very best care to children and rallying around the families that need it most. Cincinnati Children’s is one of four U.S. sites participating in clinical trials of the global BNT162 vaccine program to prevent COVID-19.

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Cincinnati Children’s employees “take a knee” to decry racial injustice. #whitecoats4blacklives
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Community

For eight minutes and 46 seconds on Juneteenth, employees across Cincinnati Children's observe a period of silence to reflect on racial injustice and how we can make our workplace more diverse, inclusive, respectful, and equitable. Systemic racism is not only an ethical and political issue; it is also a public health threat.

The Peer2Peer program (P2P).
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Culture

The Peer2Peer program (P2P) enables a trained Cincinnati Children’s clinician-peer to informally and confidentially debrief with, and provide emotional support to, a colleague who is struggling due to an adverse event, patient death, unexpected outcome, personal circumstance or other situation. It is designed to help foster a culture change away from one reliant solely on individual resilience to one of caring, shared experience and solidarity.