Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital
Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital is a pediatric acute care children's teaching hospital located in Cleveland, Ohio. The hospital has 244 pediatric beds and is affiliated the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine The hospital is a member hospital of University Hospitals and is the only children's hospital in the network. The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21 throughout northern Ohio. Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital also sometimes treats adults that require pediatric care. Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital also features the only ACS verified Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center in the region. The hospital is one of the largest providers of pediatric health services in Ohio. The hospital is attached to University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and a few blocks away from the Ronald McDonald House of Cleveland.
About
Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital regularly conducts clinical trials in the treatment of pediatric health disorders including pediatric oncology, depression and lupus. It also offers services for medical professionals, including residency and fellowship programs, continuing medical education, a nursing program, and the Rainbow Center for Pediatric Ethics.It treats children with cancer, heart disease, cystic fibrosis and pulmonary specialties, sickle cell disease, kidney disease, immunology and endocrine and metabolic disorders. Its neonatologists specialize in the treatment of high-risk and premature newborns.
Awards
In 2015-16, Rainbow ranked #3 for neonatal care, #11 for pulmonology, #8 for orthopedics, #22 for neurology, #29 for nephrology, #50 for gastroenterology, #19 for oncology, and #47 for urology in the U.S. News & World Report rankings of pediatric hospitals.As of 2020 Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital has placed nationally in 7 ranked pediatric specialties on U.S. News and World Report.
| Specialty | Rank | Score |
| Neonatology | #7 | 82.2 |
| Pediatric Cancer | #37 | 74.5 |
| Pediatric Diabetes & Endocrinology | #31 | 69.4 |
| Pediatric Gastroenterology & GI Surgery | #40 | 65.1 |
| Pediatric Orthopedics | #11 | 82.6 |
| Pediatric Pulmonology & Lung Surgery | #14 | 75.9 |
| Pediatric Urology | #32 | 69.5 |
Facilities
NICU
Rainbow's neonatal intensive care unit cares for more than 1,300 premature and critically ill babies each year. It serves a 12-county area in Northeast Ohio with a pediatric population of nearly one million. The National Institutes of Health have designated it as a level III Neonatal Research Center – the highest available designation.The NICU is one of 21 units in the country deemed a National Research Center by the NIH. Its team of 22 NICU doctors and six neonatology fellows have authored medical textbooks and directed studies in research and clinical care of high-risk and low-birth weight babies. It admits approximately 1,000 newborns annually, and also serves as the ECMO referral center for Northeast Ohio.
In 2009 the NICU completed a renovation and expansion. The 38-bed NICU now connects to a 44-bed neonatal transitional unit on the same floor, several feet away from the delivery rooms at MacDonald Women's Hospital. Improvements include more bedside privacy for parents, an increase in the number of diagnostic and imaging equipment, and the ability to provide extracorporeal membrane oxygenation treatment without transporting the baby.