Kosair Children's Hospital: A hospital 'Just for Kids'

• The second successful infant heart transplant in the country was performed at Kosair Children's Hospital in 1986.
• Kosair Children's Hospital is home to the region's only Level 1 pediatric trauma center.
• With a 97-bed unit, Kosair Children's Hospital is home to the fifth largest neonatal intensive care unit in the country, caring for more than 1,000 premature babies a year.
• Kosair Children's Hospital is the teaching facility for medical students in the University of Louisville School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics.
• Kosair Children's Hospital performs more than 10,000 surgeries a year.
• Kosair Children's Hospital offers kidney, heart and bone marrow transplant services.
• Kosair Children's Hospital is home to the country's oldest continuously accredited pediatric oncology program by the American College of
• Surgeons Commission on Cancer (accredited since 1959).
• Last year, appraisers from the American Nurses Credentialing Center recognized Kosair Children's Hospital for nursing excellence by awarding it
• Magnet designation. Kosair Children's is the only Magnet-designated hospital in Louisville and one of only 20 Magnet-designated children's hospitals in the country.
  

Support to the Children's Hospital Foundation directly benefits Kosair Children's Hospital and more than 109,000 children who are cared for there each year. On behalf of each and every child you are helping, thank you for answering their cries.