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Children's Hospital Profiles
This service allows you to search for your local children's hospital or find a hospital with a specific program, pediatric specialist or area of expertise that your child needs.

Best Hospitals in Pediatrics
The annual US News and World Report ranking by reputation of the best Childrens Hospitals.

UCP-Net: United Cerebral Palsy Afilliates: Find the United Cerebral Palsy Center or Afilliate in your area. Simply enter your State or ZipCode.

Mayo Clinic - Rochester, Minnesota
Mayo Clinic has a specialized Cerebral Palsy Clinic that includes a coordinated, comprehensive multidisciplinary medical and surgical team that provides all necessary services to diagnose and treat cerebral palsy.

Children's Hospital - Boston, MA
The Cerebral Palsy Program at Children`s Hospital Boston provides interdisciplinary, state-of-the-art evaluation and treatment of children with a variety of neuromuscular conditions.

Children's Hospital - Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Child Development Center
The Child Development Center is dedicated to the care of children with developmental disabilities from infancy through adolescence. Services are provided directly or in collaboration with other pediatric specialists to provide high-quality, family-centered patient care, education, prevention, research and advocacy.

University of Iowa Health Care - Center for Disabilities & Development
As the only tertiary program of its kind in Iowa, the CDD is a resource for people of all ages who have disabilities of all kinds. In addition to serving people from Iowa, they are a resource for people from neighboring states and beyond.

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Developmental Disabilities provides services for infants, children, and adolescents, from birth to age 21, who are experiencing developmental problems, including Cerebral Palsy. Their team of highly qualified specialists determines the needs of each child and develops unique and total care plans.

Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare - St.Paul, Minnesota
The Center for Cerebral Palsy at Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare offers comprehensive, coordinated care for children, teenagers and adults with cerebral palsy.

Children's Hospital - St.Louis, Missouri

Ability Camp: A year round facility established in 1995 that provides Conductive Education as well as Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy sessions for children with motor disorders such as Cerebral Palsy, Hydrocephalus, Brain Injury, etc. Located near Picton, in Ontario, Canada.

Center for Cerebral Palsy Spasticity: St. Louis Children's Hospital: Of all the surgical procedures currently performed on patients with cerebral palsy, selective dorsal rhizotomy has undergone more thorough scientific scrutiny than any other (including orthopaedic). Accumulated evidence and the Center's experience indicate that SDR is an excellent option for selected patients with spastic CP.

Opelousas Area Cerebral Palsy Clinic
Helps children and adults with CP achieve independence by providing physical therapy treatments free of charge in LA.

Futures Unlimited
Describes outpatient physical therapy and rehabilitation services in Minnesota.
 


NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS

Children's Hospital Boston
The primary pediatric teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. Ranked number one pediatric hospital by US News and World Reprot.

Children's Hospital Denver
Because 'Kids Need a Kids' Hospital,' this Children's Hospital aims to "improve the health of children in Denver, in Colorado, and in the region, through the provision of high quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy. "

Children's Hospital Los Angeles
'Solving the Puzzles of Childhood Illness,' Children's Hospital of Los Angeles has a mission to 'advance the health and well-being of children and adolescents by integrating medical care, preventive services, medical education and research in response to the needs of our community and in an atmosphere of love, compassion and respect for people.'

Children's Hospital of Michigan
Children's Hospital of Michigan is the only freestanding hospital in Michigan dedicated exclusively to caring for children. Take a 'kids view' online tour to prepare your child for his next visit.

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
The first hospital in the US devoted exclusively to the health care of children. Their web site includes an extensive Vaccine Education Center.

Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh is the 'only free-standing hospital in western Pennsylvania dedicated solely to the care of infants, children and young adults,' providing health care for children from the regions of Ohio, West Virginia and western Pennsylvania.

Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center
Because 'No one know children like Children's,' this hospital located in Seattle, Washington, is the premier pediatric referral center for the Pacific Northwest.

Children's Medical Center of Dallas
'for the love of children,' Children's Medical Center of Dallas provides complete health care for the children of North Texas. Features include a pediatric intensive care unit, a pediatric cardiac intensive care unit, a pediatric trauma intensive care unit, a psychiatric unit, nearly 50 outpatient clinics and a state-of-the-art emergency center designed specifically for children."

Children's Memorial Hospital Chicago
'Where Kids Come First,' this Children's Hospital in Illinois includes a Center for Transplantation, Cancer and Blood Diseases, Clinical Neuroscience, Neonatology, and Heart Disease for kids in the Chicagoland area.

Children's National Medical Center
This Children's Hospital in Washington, D.C., provides 'health care services that enhance the health and well-being of children regionally, nationally and internationally.' Their international programs take care of children from around the world.

John Hopkins Children's Center
Located in Baltimore, John Hopkins is Maryland's most comprehensive, acute-care hospital for children.

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Associated with Stanford University Medical Center between San Jose and San Francisco in California. Includes Centers of Excellence for mothers and babies, a children's heart center, transplantation program and a wide range of other patient and family support services.

Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA
This Children's Hospital cares for 'children from neighborhoods throughout Southern California and beyond,' and includes a 'children’s cancer treatment and research, pediatric heart, kidney, lung, and liver transplant programs, the nationally recognized Child Life/Child Development Program, and the Pediatric Pain Management Program.'

Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital
Located in Cleveland, Ohio, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital of University Hospitals of Cleveland is a 'nationally renowned university affiliated pediatric medical center dedicated to excellence in family-centered care' providing medical care for children in the midwest.


Your Legal Concerns
While most doctors, nurses, midwives, and hospital technicians provide a high standard of care for their patients, unfortunately, many families are harmed by medical mistakes. A physician may have misread fetal monitoring equipment, failed to diagnose fetal distress during labor, waited too long to perform a C Section, administered too much Pitocin, or failed to act in a timely manner. Parents of a child suffering with cerebral palsy should contact an experienced cerebral palsy lawyer to research the cause of their child’s condition.

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Of congenital disorders, CP has the highest life-term costs per new case, averaging $503,000 in 1992 dollars (approx. $650,000 in 2003 dollars).
59% of families with a CP child have an income of less than $30,000 per year. The child's medical care costs are assisted by Medicaid in 63% of families.
84.5%  of children with cerebral palsy receive physical therapy 6 times a month, 50% receive occupational therapy about 5 times a month and 37% see a speech therapist about 5 times a month.
 

 
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