Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU (CHoR) is a nationally ranked pediatric acute care
children's hospital located within VCU Medical Center in
Richmond
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,
Virginia. The hospital has 144 pediatric beds. It is affiliated with The
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
The Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine is the medical school of Virginia Commonwealth University, a public research university in Richmond, Virginia. It is the largest and oldest continuously opera ...
, and is a member of
VCU Health. The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21 throughout eastern Virginia. CHOR also has a helipad to transport critically ill pediatric patients. Children's Hospital of Richmond features the only pediatric
Level 1 Trauma Center in the region and the state.
The hospital is rated as the second best children's hospital in Virginia on the 2020-21
U.S. News & World Report.
History
Origins of the hospital date back to 1920 when the original Crippled Children's Hospital was incorporated as a hospital to provide pediatric orthopedic services.
In 1928 Crippled Children's Hospital opened a campus on Brook Road that still operates as the Children's Hospital of Richmond Brook Road campus.
Pediatric services at VCU have historically been based in the adult hospital, on dedicated pediatric units known as a "hospital within a hospital," under the name Children's Medical Center at MCV. In 1973, VCU doctor, Dr. Barry Kirkpatrick established the first neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in Richmond at Children's Medical Center at MCV, which was the first one in Virginia.
In 1980, Crippled Children's Hospital changed their name to Children's Hospital to better reflect the variety of services offered.
On June 30, 2010, Children's Hospital and Children's Medical Center at MCV merged to become a full-service hospital under the new name Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU.
On November 7, 2011, doctors from Children's Hospital of Richmond performed a 20-hour-long surgery to separate
conjoined twins,
Maria and Teresa Tapia
Maria and Teresa Tapia (born April 8, 2010) are formerly conjoined twins born in the Dominican Republic
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.
The twins were separated successfully and returned to CHoR a year later for a follow-up appointment.
In 2012, VCU broke ground on a new $168 million, 640,000-square-foot outpatient children's pavilion. The plans called for 72 exam rooms, two operating rooms, and areas for testing and imaging. In addition, plans called for an attached underground parking garage. The architect was
HKS and construction was handled by Swedish firm
Skanska. The new facility opened on March 21, 2016.
In 2013 VCU Health entered into an agreement with
Bon Secours Health to form the Virginia Children's Hospital Alliance. The goal of the alliance was to build a $1 billion independent, freestanding children's hospital in the Richmond area. Later that year, In 2015, both VCU and Bon Secours both dropped out of the alliance due to the disapproval of the agreement forcing each system to migrate their pediatric services to the new freestanding system.
In February 2019, VCU officials announced plans to build an 86-bed, $350 million children's hospital adjacent to its outpatient children's pavilion in downtown Richmond. The new building will replace the existing inpatient pediatric units at VCU's nearby adult hospital. The new hospital also will contain shell-space for future growth and is planned to open in 2022.
In March 2020, the hospital implemented strict visitor limitations to help stop the spread of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Restrictions allowed for patients on pediatric units to be limited to two visitors and emergency room visits limited to one parent.
Awards
Along with VCU Medical Center, the hospital was designated as a magnet hospital by the
American Nurse Credentialing Center in 2011, 2016, and 2020.
In 2020-21 the hospital was ranked as the #2 best children's hospital in Virginia (behind
UVA Children's Hospital
UVA Children's Hospital is a nationally ranked, acute care children's hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia. It is affiliated with the University of Virginia School of Medicine. The hospital features 112 pediatric beds. The hospital provides compr ...
) by
U.S. News & World Report.
See also
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VCU Medical Center
The VCU Medical Center is Virginia Commonwealth University's medical campus located in downtown Richmond, Virginia, in the Court End neighborhood. VCU Medical Center used to be known as the Medical College of Virginia (MCV), which merged with the ...
*
UVA Children's Hospital
UVA Children's Hospital is a nationally ranked, acute care children's hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia. It is affiliated with the University of Virginia School of Medicine. The hospital features 112 pediatric beds. The hospital provides compr ...
*
Bon Secours Health
*
VCU School of Medicine
References
External links
* https://www.chrichmond.org/
{{Hospitals in Virginia
Children's hospitals in the United States
Teaching hospitals in Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth University
Pediatric trauma centers
Hospitals in Virginia
Hospital buildings completed in 2016