Facts about Children’s Hospital
East Tennessee Children’s Hospital in Numbers: 2024
- Licensed Beds - 152
- Average Daily Inpatient Census - 90
- Physicians - 402
- Employees - 2,118
- Volunteer Hours - 37,736
- Surgeries - 15,957
- PICU Patients - 544
- NICU Patients - 1,030
- Critical Care Transports - 1,124
- Outpatient Visits - 73,637
- Visits to Emergency Department - 52,844
- Behavioral Health Encounters in ED - 3,305
- Primary Care Visits - 143,676
- Urgent Care Visits - 42,162
- Rehab Visits - 49,216
- Lab Tests - 467,724
- Sleep Studies - 1,337
- Visits with Patients by Child Life Specialists - 18,654
- Home Health Visits - 24,754
Because children are not just miniature adults, but individuals with special medical, physical and emotional needs, they deserve a specially trained staff. Children’s Hospital offers more pediatric subspecialties than any other hospital in East Tennessee. They include:
- Child abuse pediatrics
- Developmental-behavioral pediatrics
- Medical genetics
- Neonatology
- Pediatrics
- Allergy and immunology
- Anesthesiology
- Cardiology
- Dentistry and pedodontics
- Dermatology
- Emergency medicine
- Endocrinology
- Forensic medicine
- Gastroenterology
- Hematology and Oncology
- Infectious diseases
- Intensive care
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Neurosurgery
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopedics
- Otolaryngology
- Pain and Palliative Care
- Pathology
- Perinatology
- Plastic & reconstructive surgery
- Pulmonology
- Radiology
- Rheumatology
- Sedation
- Sleep medicine
- Sports medicine
- Surgery
- Urology
- Physical medicine, rehabilitation and physiatry
Children’s Hospital provides:
Treatment for acute illnesses and injuries in the Pilot Emergency Care Center 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
- Care for critically ill and injured patients in the Goody’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), which is staffed with doctors and nurses trained and experienced in the acute care of children.
- Board-certified neonatologists, in-house, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Haslam Family Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) specializes in the care of critically ill or premature newborns.
- Diagnostic services including: clinical lab, endoscopy, EEG, ECHO, EKG, nuclear medicine, pulmonary function, MRI, ultrasound and CT scan. In addition, Children’s Hospital provides multidisciplinary outpatient clinics for children with chronic conditions that include cystic fibrosis, chest wall deformities, diabetes, cancer, blood diseases, infectious diseases, obesity, diseases of the skin, metabolic diseases and cleft lip/palette.
- Additional services including our Rehabilitation Center, Home Health Department and Sleep Medicine Center.
- Pediatric clinical training to more than 70 hospitals, universities and institutions. Children’s Hospital is one of only four state designated Comprehensive Regional Pediatric Centers (CRPC) in Tennessee.
- Community outreach like The Healthy Kids program provides injury prevention, education and safety information to families throughout East Tennessee.
- Four Urgent Care Centers for non-emergencies, open on nights and weekends when pediatricians’ offices are typically closed.
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