Boston Children’s Hospital

Front entrance of Boston Children’s Hospital's curved parking area at night with cars parked out front, showing off the glowing green lights overhead.
Front entrance of Boston Children’s Hospital

Statistics
•  478 beds 
   ▻ 40 bed medical-surgical ICU
   ▻ 40 bed cardiac ICU
   ▻ 30 bed neonatal ICU
   ▻ 22 bed medical ICU
   ▻ 24 bed pediatric intermediate care unit
   ▻ 13 bed stem cell transplantation unit
   ▻   6 bed clinical research center   
•  25,603 inpatient admissions and observation discharges
•  32,114 surgical procedures (IP and OP)
•  5,753 endoscopies
•  775,000 outpatient visits
•   68,033 emergency department visits
•  1,444 active medical and dental staff

Boston Children’s Hospital is one of the largest pediatric hospitals in the United States, and a major teaching facility of Harvard Medical School. Founded in 1869 as a 20-bed hospital for children, it is now a comprehensive medical center for infants, children, adolescents and adults with congenital diseases, dedicated to excellence in patient care, teaching and research.

There are 478 inpatient beds distributed on five floors in the Main hospital building, Main South, the Mandell building and the Hale Tower .  The hospital contains a 40-bed multidisciplinary intensive care unit, 22-bed medical intensive care unit, 30-bed neonatal intensive care unit, 40-bed cardiac intensive care unit, 24-bed pediatric intermediate care unit, 13-bed bone marrow transplantation unit and six-bed clinical research center.

On July 1, 2022, Tufts Children’s Hospital closed its pediatric program including its inpatient beds, PICU, and Oncology and Stem Cell Transplant Units. Children’s assumed care for those patients at its main facility and for the Tufts NICU and ambulatory general and specialty pediatric practice.Children’s has physician services agreements for inpatient pediatrics, emergency medicine and/or newborn medicine at Beverly Hospital,  Cape Cod Hospital, Charlton Memorial Hospital, Milford Hospital, St. Luke’s Hospital at SouthCoast Health, South Shore Hospital, Tobey Hospital and Winchester Hospital.  In addition, Children’s is now coordinating pediatric care with the Tufts Medical Centers affiliated sites at Lowell General Hospital, Lawrence General Hospital and Brockton Hospital.

There are several hundred 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 at Longwood, and Martha Eliot Health Center, an affiliated neighborhood health center. In addition, outpatient services are provided at Children’s satellite centers or physician offices in Brookline, Brockton, Lexington, Milford, Needham, North Dartmouth, Peabody, Waltham, Weymouth and Worcester Massachusetts.

Hunnewell Building

Crowned with the signature green dome, the Hunnewell building serves as an architectural signature of Children's Hospital Boston. With small trees at the front of the building, and the shadow in the background on the building, it shows the historical significance.
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 Department of Pediatrics, which is located on the 2nd floor. The copper dome covers an internal atrium. It was re-clad about a 35 years ago and has not fully recovered its verdigris hue.

Main South

Entrance of the Main South Building in a multi-story building. Housing surgical, imaging, and inpatient services in one of the primary clinical spaces.
Entrance of the Main South Building

This 11-story clinical building is an extension of the hospital’s existing Main Building.  The building includes cardiac, medical and multidisciplinary ICU beds, a medical intermediate care unit, a cardiac catheterization lab, inpatient echocardiography, medical and surgical patient beds, operating rooms, interventional radiology space and administrative office space.

Mandell Building

The Mandell Building is a high-rise building that brings together emergency, surgical, imaging, and neurological services in a modern clinical setting.
Mandell Building

This 10-story state-of-the-art clinical building contains  space for the Emergency, Radiology, Surgery, Neurology, and Pharmacy services. There are four floors of single bed inpatient rooms that align with floors in the existing hospital, and a neuroimaging suite.

Fegan Building

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

Enders Research Laboratory, Karp Family Research Laboratory, Center for Life Sciences Building, Warren Alpert Building, 2 Brookline Place, 421 Park St, 201 Brookline Ave and the Autumn Street Building for Clinical Research.

The Enders Research Laboratory and the Karp Family Research Laboratory, supporting a strong cast of researchers that drive innovation across clinical care. Each building is multiple floors with smaller buildings in the surrounding area, with Boston streets at the bottom.
The 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, the 12-story Karp Family Research Laboratories; and portions of the neighboring buildings: Center for Life Science Boston, Harvard Institute of Medicine, the Autumn Street Building, 2 Brookline Place, 421 Park St, 201 Brookline Ave, and the Warren Alpert Building at HMS, add up to more than 1,300,000 square feet of research space. These buildings contain basic and clinical researchers in virtually every specialty, more than 1,100 in all. The hospital faculty includes 17 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 43 members of the National Academy of Medicine, 14 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, 25 Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and 13 members of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a level of research that rivals or exceeds the very best research institutes in the world. Funding for research at Boston Children’s Hospital equals $610 million and is greater than all other pediatric hospitals in the United States.

Boston Children’s Hospital is also a leader in clinical research. 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 NIH-funded Clinical Research Centers in the country.

Hale Family Building

The Hale Family Building enhances patient care with expanded bed capacity, advanced cardiovascular services, and specialized surgical programs within Boston Children's Hospital. This building has large glass windows with streets and a parking are underneath. The bright blue sky and clouds cast above the building on a sunny day.
The Hale Family Building

The Hale medical tower houses a state-of-art cardiovascular institute, including outpatient clinics, inpatient unit intensive care unit, catheterization labs, and dedicated operating suite. Other programs in the new tower include a 30-bed neonatal intensive care unit, a surgical floor dedicated primarily to transplantation, operating rooms, and imaging facilities.