Children's National Hospital: Devoted to Excellence

Children’s National Hospital is devoted to improving patient and staff safety. (Photo provided by Children’s National Hospital)

Since its founding in 1870 with just 12 beds for displaced youth after the Civil War, Children’s National Hospital of Washington, D.C. has established itself as one of the most distinguished pediatric medical centers in the United States.

In addition to numerous national and regional awards, Children’s National is ranked as one of the top 10 pediatric hospitals in the country by U.S. News & World Report for the fifth year in a row. It boasts the No. 1 ranked neonatology program in the United States, and it has earned top 10 honors in neurology and neurosurgery, cancer, nephrology, orthopedics, pulmonology and lung surgery, and diabetes and endocrinology.