Children´s National Medical Center

Children’s National Medical Center is the only exclusive provider of pediatric care in the metropolitan Washington area and is the only freestanding children’s hospital between Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Norfolk, and Atlanta. Serving the nation’s children for more than 130 years, Children’s National is a proven leader in the development and application of innovative new treatments for childhood illness and injury.

Children’s internationally recognized team of pediatric healthcare professionals care for more than 360,000 patients each year who come from throughout the region, nation and world. Serving as an advocate for all children, Children’s is the largest non-governmental provider of pediatric care in the District of Columbia, providing more than $50 million in uncompensated care. In addition, Children's serves as the regional referral center for pediatric emergency, trauma, cancer, cardiac and critical care as well as neonatology, orthopaedic surgery, neurology, and neurosurgery.

Children’s National is proudly ranked consistently among the best pediatric hospitals in America by US News & World Report.

Children's Mission Statement
Children's National Medical Center will:

Improve health outcomes for children regionally, nationally and internationally.
Be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems.
Excel in Care, Advocacy, Research, and Education to meet the unique needs of children, adolescents and their families.
Children’s Vision Statement
Children's National Medical Center will set the standards of excellence for the care of children.

We will serve as the voice for the most vulnerable among us: our children.
We will lead the quest to cure some of childhood's most devastating diseases.
We will prepare the nation's future leaders in child health.
We will be the children's hospital against which all others are measured.
Children’s Child-Centered Vision
By incorporating feedback from our families, we have developed our first child-centered vision, which looks at the hospital experience through a child's eyes. Healing a child's body, mind and spirit takes more than medicine: it takes a team to fulfill a family's dream.

My hospital is a bright and happy place that feels like home.
My providers, my family and I are a team, and everyone’s job is important.
The way my hospital works was built around me.
My providers don’t all look alike.
My hospital is my family’s connection to everything I need for my health, whether they provide it or blaze a trail to it.