St. Louis Children’s Hospital

Consistently rated one of America’s best children’s hospitals. 

Providing inpatient and outpatient medical care across more than 50 specialty areas, the hospital offers education, wellness education and injury-prevention programs, all aimed at improving the health and lives of children. 

A perennial leader across categories in U.S. News and World Report’s survey of America’s Best Children’s Hospitals, St. Louis Children’s is consistently noted for high performance across multiple specialty categories.  

Providing comprehensive, high-quality care—and serving as an advocate for children—has been St. Louis Children’s commitment since our founding in 1879. Today, the hospital makes an impact across a wide swath of Missouri and well beyond, serving patients and families from all 50 states and more than 80 countries. 

St. Louis Children’s is the sole pediatric teaching hospital for the renowned WashU Medicine. This academic partnership creates an environment in which advanced research is quickly translated into care. A top institution in the U.S. and beyond for clinical science, the WUSM Department of Pediatrics is recognized by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a Child Health Research Center—one of only a handful of centers nationwide with this status.

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