• 390 beds (~50% medical)
• 29 bed multidisciplinary ICU
• 24 bed cardiac ICU
• 24 bed neonatal ICU
• 12 bed medicine ICU
• 13 bed stem cell transplantation unit
• 6 bed clinical research center
• 22,600 inpatient admissions
• 22,400 surgical procedures
• 472,000 outpatient visits
• >100 outpatient programs
• 55,000 emergency department visits
• 900 medical and dental staff
• 1,100 nurses

There are 390 inpatient beds distributed on five floors in the Main hospital building and in the new, state-of-the-art clinical expansion building (Main South), which opened in July 2005. With the opening of the new clinical building, the hospital now houses a 24-bed multidisciplinary intensive care unit, 24-bed neonatal intensive care unit, 24-bed cardiac intensive care unit, 12-bed bone marrow transplantation unit, and six-bed clinical research center. Children's has physician services agreements for inpatient pediatrics, emergency and newborn medicine at Winchester Hospital, Winchester, Mass., South Shore Hospital, Weymouth, Mass., and MetroWest Medical Center, Framingham, Mass.

There are more than 100 outpatient programs ranging from primary care to a wide variety of specialty programs. Outpatient facilities include an 11-story building for ambulatory services, the Adolescent/Young Adult Program, Children's Hospital Primary Care Center, and Martha Eliot Health Center, an affiliated neighborhood health center. In addition, outpatient services are provided at Children's satellite centers in Lexington and Peabody, Mass., as well as through affiliations with Beverly Hospital, MetroWest Medical Center, South Shore Hospital, Winchester Hospital, and hospitals in the Caritas Christi system, including Carney, Good Samaritan, Norwood and St. Elizabeth's. And, Children's has recently opened opened a new satellite hospital in Waltham, MA.

During the next decade Children's plans to expand to almost 500 beds, adding a new entrance, another clinical building and an additional, 21-story research building. Read more.....

The green-domed Hunnewell building is the architectural signature of Children's Hospital Boston

This famous "green-domed" building with its classic columned facade on Longwood Ave was built in 1914 and is the oldest building in the Children's complex. To many it is the symbol of the institution. Today, it mostly houses administrative offices, including the Dept. of Medicine, which is moving from the 3rd to the 2nd floor. The copper dome, which covers an internal atrium, was re-clad about a decade ago and is only beginning to recover its verdigris hue.

Main entrance of the new Main South Building

Last year Children's opened an 11-story state-of-the-art clinical building. An extension of the hospital's existing Main Building, Main South will give clinicians access to cutting-edge technology while carving out more room for patients and families. Floors six to 10 include 48 new cardiac and medical/surgical ICU beds, a cardiac catheterization lab, inpatient echocardiography, and medical and surgical patient beds. Floors one to three include eight operating rooms, interventional radiology space and two floors of administrative office space. A description of the many features of the new building is shown here.

This 12 story building sits in the middle of the Children's campus, between the Hunneywell building and the Main Hospital, and houses Children's ambulatory programs and many clinician's offices.

The Gamble Room

The library is a beautiful building that lies adjacent to the Prouty Garden and was designed to blend into its surroundings. Besides the usual books and journals, the building contains a reading space overlooking the garden stocked with daily newspapers, private study carrels, computer graphics facilities, and the Gamble Room-a recreation of a century old, cherry paneled doctor's study, including a marble trimmed, bluestone hearth fireplace.

The Prouty Garden fountain with azaleas blooming in the background

The Prouty Memorial Garden is nestled between the Wolbach and Farley buildings and the Library. It is a quiet and colorful oasis at the heart of the hospital. Designed by the famous Olmstead landscape architects, it is modeled after the terrace and garden at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and is filled with specimen plants and trees surrounding a grassy lawn and fountain. The garden provides a respite on a hectic day. A stone patio with tables and umbrellas extends into the garden and is a great place to have lunch, or coffee after rounds. The garden is also a wonderful spot for children and their families to enjoy the outdoors on a nice day.

Enders Research Laboratory and the Karp Family Research Laboratory

The 13-story John F. Enders Laboratories for Pediatric Research, named for the Nobel Prize recipient who cultured the polio and measles viruses, and the new, 12-story state-of-the art Karp Family Research Laboratories add up to more than 680,000 square feet of research space and contain basic scientists and physician investigators in virtually every specialty. The hospital faculty includes 8 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 11 members of the Academy's Institute of Medicine, 13 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 13 members of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute of Medicine and a level of research that rivals the very best research institutes in the world. Funding for research at Children's Hospital Boston totals approximately $135 million. Children's Hospital Boston is also a leader in clinical research and has recently doubled clinical research space with the acquisition of a new building near the hospital. The clinical research program has extensive support services, including biostatisticians, epidemiologists, database programmers, data coordinators and clinical research coordinators who provide consultation to clinical investigators. The hospital also has one of the oldest and largest NIH-funded Clinical Research Centers in the country.