M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital (formerly known as Amplatz Children's Hospital) is a

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pediatric Pediatrics (American English) also spelled paediatrics (British English), is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, pediatrics covers many of their youth ...

acute care

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located in

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. The hospital has 212 beds and is affiliated with

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. The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to pediatric patients aged 0–21 throughout Minnesota and the Midwest United States. Masonic Children's Hospital is also a state designated Level III Trauma Center.

History

The history of a

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pediatric program went as far back as the 1930s when the first pediatric cardiology unit was opened. In 1951, this unit later expanded into a 40-bed pediatric unit at Variety Club Heart Hospital along with a playroom and classrooms. In 1986, pediatric services were brought together in a new general university hospital. The new hospital included 3 pediatric units: a

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, a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), and a pediatric

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unit. The new facility was named University-Variety Hospital for Children. On the other side of town, Fairview Health (before merge) first opened its own dedicated pediatric unit in 1955. In 1997, M Health merged with Fairview. The modern day children's hospital first opened in 2011 at a cost of $25 million and was initially named University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital. In 2014, the hospital was renamed to University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital after a large donation from the Minnesota Mason's Charities. The hospital is 6 stories tall and includes multiple different inpatient units.

Services

Masonic Children's Hospital also features a level 4

. It provides pediatric programs including pediatric general surgery, imaging, and neonatal and pediatric intensive care to cardiac and

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services, blood and marrow transplant,

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, and

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. The hospital also includes Minnesota's only children's behavioral inpatient unit and programming that focuses on children ages 12 and younger.

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