Ranked in all 10 specialties on U.S.News & World Report’s 2013-14 “America’s Best Children’s Hospitals” list, Nationwide Children’s Hospital is one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit freestanding pediatric healthcare networks providing wellness, preventive, diagnostic, treatment and rehabilitative care for infants, children and adolescents, as well as adult patients with congenital disease. Nationwide Children’s, also ranked among the Top 10 on Parents magazine’s 2013 “Best Children’s Hospitals” list, has a medical staff of 1,100 and 9,400 employees that provide state-of-the-art pediatric care for one million patient visits annually. Nationwide Children’s remains true to the original mission since its founding in 1892 of providing care regardless of a family’s ability to pay.
Through its Primary Care Network, Nationwide Children’s offers community-based physician services at 12 centers for children ages birth to 21 year of age to keep pediatric patients healthy with regular physical exams, vision, hearing and general development checks, and childhood diseases immunizations. The Nationwide Children’s Primary Care Network is one of the largest hospital-owned pediatric primary care networks in the U.S. and has received recognition as a Patient Centered Medical Home by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). The NCQA Patient Centered Medical Home standards emphasize the use of systematic, patient-centered, coordinated care that supports access, communication and patient involvement.
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