Our Hospital

North Carolina Children's Hospital, newly built in 2002, is designed to meet the physical and psychological needs of sick or injured children and their families. The architecture is bright and colorful, with interactive gizmos, interesting sculptures and playful art.

And because many of our patients have conditions that cause frequent or long-term hospital stays, the Children's Hospital has several specialty areas that offer places to escape and "just be a kid." Places like the Jason Clark Teen Activity Center, complete with a teen lounge, several video gaming systems, and arcade-style entertainment such as air hockey. Or the Sigma Sigma Sigma Foundation Robbie Page play atrium, a two-story indoor park. These and other areas like the Recreational Therapy Room and the Charles Goren Music Room provide countless hours of entertainment and fun for our patients.

The hospital has 140 inpatient beds and a comprehensive Children's Outpatient Center located in the same building, a first for North Carolina.

Key features of N.C. Children's Hospital include:

• Large, all private rooms with their own baths and built-in sleeping accommodations for parents.
  
• Attractive waiting areas and family lounges.
  
• Centralized and convenient children's clinics.
  
• A 48-bed Newborn Critical Care Center.
  
• A Pediatric Intensive Care Unit with 20 beds.
  
• An 8-bed Children's Intermediate Cardiac Care Unit.
  
• An 8-bed Children's Short Stay Unit made for children requiring observation or procedures necessitating less than 24 hours stay.
• The state's only accredited K-12 hospital school to help children keep up with their classroom studies during their hospital stays.
  
• An indoor, two-story, park-like recreation center for patients staying overnight. The recreation center includes a play area for toddlers as well as a lounge and music room for teens.
  
• A café next to the balcony that overlooks the lobby.
  
• A wireless phone and pager system that allows nurses throughout the hospital to respond more quickly to patients and to communicate more efficiently with physicians.
  
• A state-of-the-art monitoring system that digitally stores data for up to 72 hours, enabling health caregivers to check previous results. A Parent's Resource Room with printed material, instructional videos and an Internet-connected computer for online information searches.
  
• Children's pre-op and post-op areas, where both the décor and the staff are child friendly. Parents can accompany their children to pre-op and, in many cases, stay with them until they are given anesthesia.
  

The hospital houses expanded radiology services for both children and adults, as well as a pathology laboratory, pharmacy and outpatient physical / occupational therapy services.

N.C. Children's Hospital stands between N.C. Memorial Hospital and the N.C. Women's Hospital.