About Our Medical Center

Cincinnati Children’s is a full-service, not-for-profit academic medical center with a rich history of excellence in pediatric healthcare that stretches back to 1883.  

We’re the home of major developments and discoveries, including the science of teratology (birth defects), the Sabin oral polio vaccine, artificial blood, the heart-lung machine, new lung surfactant replacement and the rotavirus vaccine.  

Today, we’ve grown to become one of the largest children’s hospitals in the United States, with more than 670 registered beds and 1.3 million patient encounters, 92,000 Emergency Department visits and nearly 32,000 surgical procedures a year.  

Our treatment of rare and complex conditions drew children from 61 other countries in 2016.  

Cincinnati Children's is ranked one of the best children's hospitals in the nation by U.S. News & World Report for more than 15 years. We're also in the Top 10 for all 10 ranked pediatric subspecialties. We dedicate a world-class team to every child, provide answers to the most challenging medical conditions and deliver the best possible outcomes.

In addition to world-class clinical care, we are a leader in research that leads to better treatments for children. We are the third-highest recipient of grants from the National Institutes of Health for pediatric research.  

Our international research collaborations include work in China, Bangladesh, Nepal, United Arab Emirates, Mexico, Israel, Honduras, Malawi and Brazil. 

Researchers and clinicians from around the world have come to be part of our team. We have faculty and staff members from 85 countries. And more than 240 physicians, nurses, scientists and hospital leaders from other countries visited for training and education in 2016.