Blythedale Children's Hospital is a specialty
children's hospital in
Valhalla, New York, United States. It is the only independent children's hospital in
New York State
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. The hospital is dedicated to the diagnosis, care and rehabilitation of children with complex medical and rehabilitative needs.
The hospital opened a new, 56,000 square-foot inpatient hospital in December 2011. The new inpatient facility accommodates 94 patients
in single or double rooms and includes a 46-bed Infant & Toddler and Post Neonatal/Post-Pediatric Intensive Care Unit for medically fragile patients, many of whom require weaning from mechanical ventilation. The new building also includes a 30-bed Pediatric & Adolescent Unit, and a (expanded, 2021) 18-bed Traumatic Brain Injury Unit.
The hospital also has its own on-site public school district, the Mount Pleasant Blythedale Union Free School District.
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Hospital buildings completed in 1922
Hospital buildings completed in 2011
Hospitals in New York (state)
Hospitals in Westchester County, New York
Mount Pleasant, New York
Rehabilitation hospitals
Children's hospitals in New York (state)
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