Facts about Children's Hospital Boston

Based in Boston. Serving the World

Since 1996, Miles for Miracles Team Boston has raised more than $11.8 million to support the areas of greatest need at Children’s Hospital Boston. Here at Children’s, life-changing care and worldchanging research come together to fuel breakthroughs that improve the lives of children and adults everywhere.

The following are examples of the impact Children’s has had, and continues to have, on Boston and around the world.

Life-Changing Care

Named among the top two children’s hospitals nationwide for 20 years, Children’s breadth and depth, and its ability to solve medical problems no other hospital will attempt draws patients from around the globe.

-World-leading programs in cardiology, gastroenterology, neurology, orthopedic surgery, cancer,
advanced fetal care and neonatal care.

-Delivered life-saving care to more than 3,000 patients from beyond Massachusetts in 2007, including hundreds from abroad; Interpreter Services aided patient families 80,000 times, translating into 35 languages.

-Achieved Magnet status for nursing excellence—among only 5 percent of hospitals nationwide.

World-Changing Research

The nation’s premier pediatric research facility, Children’s receives more NIH funding than any other pediatric hospital and ranks fifth in NIH funding among all hospitals.

-World-class research team includes 13 Howard Hughes Medical Institute appointees, 7 Institute of Medicine members and 9 members of the National Academy of Sciences.

-Two Children’s scientists have won Nobel Prizes—John Enders, PhD, for culturing the polio virus, and Joseph E. Murray, MD, for the first successful organ transplant.

-Founded the world-changing field of angiogenesis, which holds promise for treating more than 60 diseases; drugs to control angiogenesis are now extending life for cancer patients and reversing blindness for macular degeneration patients.

-World leaders in stem cell research. In 2008 our scientists reprogrammed mature human cells to simulate embryonic stem cells, creating 10 disease-specific cell lines that will shed light on root causes of disease; all Children’s cell lines are available to the international research community.

-Home to top pediatric obesity experts whose groundbreaking studies have directly influenced public health policy.

Training

-Children’s is one of nation’s most competitive pediatric residency program: 1,000 applicants vie for 35 resident positions annually.

-Many of the nation’s division chiefs, department chairs and top academic researchers trained at
Children’s—we are an incubator for the star practitioners of the future.