The
Ronald McDonald Children's Hospital of Loyola
provides special services in the health care of children,
ranging from inpatient to outpatient care in general
pediatrics to pediatric subspecialties.
Who We Are
Nearly 100 full-time
pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists are part
of the hospital and teach at Loyola
University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.
Pediatricians also can see patients at our primary
care centers in several suburban locations.
Located in Maywood, Ill.,
as a hospital within a hospital, the 100-bed Ronald
McDonald Children's Hospital of Loyola consists of:
- A 50-bed Level III
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
- A 16-bed Pediatric
Intensive Care Unit designed with the latest technology
and family amenities
- 34 general pediatric
beds
- A monitored unit for
infants and toddlers
Our Special Services/Programs
- The
Pediatric and Neonatal Home Care Program
– developed in 1993
to enhance the continuum of care provided to children
and their families in their own homes.
- The
Hospital School Program
– the only such program in Chicagoland to employ
a full-time teacher to assist hospitalized children
with their school work, during their hospital stay.
- An active Family
Advisory Council
– one of the few in the United States where parents
provide monthly feedback to clinicians and managers
on the care provided to children in Loyola's health
system.
Community Outreach
The first pediatric
mobile clinic in the Midwest was launched in the
fall of 1998 by Loyola to reach medically underserved
children. The mobile clinic primarily offers school-age
children routine medical examinations; immunizations;
hearing and vision tests; asthma care; treatment and
prevention of common childhood disorders; and health
education, among other services. Initially, the clinic
is serving families within a five-mile radius of Loyola.
National/State Leadership
- The Neonatal Intensive
Care Unit (NICU), which serves as a national model,
consistently has produced some of the best infant
survival rates in Illinois. In 1998, the overall
survival rate of infants on the NICU was 92.24 percent.
For infants weighing 1500 grams (about 3 pounds,
5 ounces) or more, survival is 95.8 percent.
- The NICU offers the
only integrated home care program for premature
or sick infants in the United States.
- Ronald McDonald Children's
Hospital of Loyola offers one of the few programs
in the United States to reconstruct hands of children
born with defects or abnormalities.
- Our Spasticity Management
Clinic is offered in partnership with DuPage County
Easter Seal in Illinois.
- The children's hospital
at Loyola was the first and the only to receive
the Ronald McDonald House Charities name--Ronald
McDonald Children's Hospital of Loyola.
- Two of the three smallest
surviving infants in the world were cared for at
Loyola. The world's smallest baby ever to survive
was born at 9.9 ounces in 1989 at Loyola. That child
is now a healthy 10-year-old girl. The hospital
also delivered and cared for the third smallest
baby (12 ounces) to be born and survive in the United
States.
Also Recognized For:
- Multidiscplinary Spina
Bifida & Cystic Fibrosis Centers.
- Pediatric kidney transplantation
program.
