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Riley Hospital for Children: Residency Experience

James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children

The James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children is a 240-bed pediatric facility on the Medical Center Campus. This is the only truly comprehensive Pediatric Center in the state. The hospital contains a 50-bed neonatal intensive care facility (NICU), 38-bed older child PICU, a children's burn unit (the only pediatric burn unit in the state) and childhood clinics for all surgical specialties. A 30-bed childhood cancer unit opened in the summer of 1994 that has hematopoietic stem cell transplantation capability. This is the only stem cell transplantation center for children in the state. There are 14 in-patient operating rooms and six ambulatory operating rooms that processed more than 13,000 patients during the past year.

Contemporary programs include an extracorporeal life support program, [ECMO] ((>500 cases), the development of the nation's second Kiwanis-supported Trauma Life Center for Children (approved as a Level-I Pediatric Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons), the Children's Cancer Center, organ transplantation (kidney, liver, heart, bone marrow), and a pediatric minimally invasive surgery program (laparoscopy/thoracoscopy). A small bowel transplantation effort was initiated in July, 2003. Riley Children's Hospital is one of 29 approved postgraduate residency training centers for Pediatric Surgery in the country. A wide spectrum of neonatal, traumatic, oncologic and other surgical conditions are seen annually. Expansion of ambulatory activities and establishment of a heliport was facilitated by construction of the new Riley Outpatient Center (ROC) which opened in 2000. This state of the art facility houses a new ambulatory surgical suite and dedicated surgical clinic for the Department of Surgery as well as outstanding conference capabilities. The Riley Children's Hospital has its own self-contained diagnostic imaging center which includes nuclear medicine, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and one of the prototype electronic digital radiology units in the country and recently installed a PACS system to digitally review images in the NICU, PICU, emergency room, operating rooms and clinics and on all wards. There are 33 children's surgical specialists and 18 pediatric anesthesiologists that are based at this facility. Construction has begun on the new Riley Towers that will expand pediatric critical care, the neonatal intensive care units and operating rooms. Plans also include space for development of a high-risk maternal fetal center. The project will have state-of-the-art technological innovations and computer systems in a first-class family-centered care design