|
You
are here: Home >
Programs & Services > Pediatric
Services
Pediatric
Services
Loyola
University Health System (Loyola) is nationally recognized
for its specialty care in pediatrics. Our pediatricians
offer a complete array of consultative, outpatient and
inpatient medical services for infants, children and
adolescents. Each year, the physicians have more than
103,000 outpatient visits for general and subspecialty
care and 6,600 admissions to the Ronald McDonald®
Children’s Hospital of Loyola University Medical
Center. More than 14,000 children annually receive evaluation
in the pediatric emergency department, the Chicago suburbs’
only round-the-clock pediatric trauma program. Also,
15,000 needy children receive care on the Ronald McDonald®
Children’s Hospital Mobile Medical Unit.
Pediatricians
work closely with health-care providers from many other
Loyola departments who specialize in the evaluation
and treatment of children. In addition to the 12 pediatric
subspecialties listed below under Specialty Services
and general pediatrics and child psychology, the department
provides a unique complementary and alternative medicine
program targeted to children.
Specialty
Services
Adolescent Medicine
Allergy/Immunology/Pulmonology
Cardiology
Critical Care
Developmental Behavioral Services
Endocrinology
Gastroenterology
General Pediatrics
Genetics
Hematology/Oncology
Infectious Disease
Neonatology
Nephrology
Research
The
department participates in clinical trials involving
malignancies, including leukemia, lymphoma, brain tumors,
neuroblastoma, Wilms' tumor, rhabdomyosarcoma and other
soft-tissue sarcomas, and bone tumors. Other clinical
trials are attempting to improve supportive care of
patients with cancer, such as use of growth factors
to alleviate neutropenic fever and recombinant erythropoietin
to alleviate anemia due to chemotherapy. Other research
includes growth and development in infants with BPD,
effectiveness of grief counseling after neonatal death,
rapid sequence intubation in premature babies, markers
of neonatal sepsis, and controlled management of neonatal
ventilation.
Faculty members are studying risk factors of gastroesophageal
reflux disease (GERD) in children and adolescents, the
relationship between burns and skeletal fractures, physician,
social work and DCFS perceptions of medical neglect,
validation of a pediatric trauma/child treatment form,
obesity in underserved populations, and the safety of
growth hormone.
Locations
and Contacts
A full spectrum of pediatric services is available
in Maywood at:
Ronald
McDonald® Children’s Hospital of Loyola University
Medical Center
Loyola Outpatient Center
Services
also are offered at the following Loyola sites:
Loyola
Center for Health at Elmhurst
Loyola
Center for Health at Hickory Hills
Loyola
Center for Health at Oak Park
Loyola
Center for Health at Orland Park
Loyola
Family Health Center at LaGrange Park
Loyola
Family Health Center at North Riverside
Loyola
Primary Care Center at Darien
Loyola
Primary Care Center at Glendale Heights
Loyola
Primary Care Center at Oakbrook Terrace
Loyola
Primary Care Center at Wheaton
Oakbrook
Terrace Medical Center
If you would like to make an appointment or need assistance
to find an appropriate physician, please call us at
(888) LUHS-888.
Related
Links
Reading,
Writing & Recovery School Program at The
Ronald McDonald® Children’s Hospital of Loyola
University Medical Center
Chair
Jerold M. Stirling, MD, FAAP
|
