Norton Children's Hospital, formerly Kosair Children's Hospital, is a pediatric acute care

children's hospital A children's hospital is a hospital that offers its services exclusively to infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In certain special cases, they may also treat adults. The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th ...

located in

Louisville, Kentucky Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border ...

and affiliated with the

University of Louisville School of Medicine The University of Louisville School of Medicine at the University of Louisville is a medical school located in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Opened as the Louisville Medical Institute in 1837, it is one of the oldest medical schools in Nor ...

. The hospital has 300 pediatric beds, providing comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, young adults, age 0-21 throughout Kentucky and the surrounding states. Established in 1892 as Children's Free Hospital, it is part of

Norton Healthcare Norton Healthcare is a Kentucky health care system with more than 40 clinics and hospitals in and around Louisville, Kentucky. The hospital and health care system is the Louisville area's third largest private employer, located at more than 140 l ...

. Norton Children's Hospital also features the region's only Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center and Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. In 2016, actress Jennifer Lawrence, a Louisville native, donated $2 million to the Norton Children's Hospital in Louisville to set up a cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) named after her foundation.

History

After a devastating tornado hit Louisville, activists decided to create a place where kids could receive specialized care. The hospital first incorporated in 1890 as Children's Free Hospital. In 1892, the Children's Free Hospital officially opened, becoming the #10 children's hospital to open in the United States. In 1910 a new $60,000, 75-bed hospital was opened to take the place of the original building. In 1930, Children's Free Hospital affiliated with the

. In 1946, Children's Free Hospital renamed their hospital to Children's Hospital. In 1986 the modern day hospital opened at current location on East Chestnut Street. In 1988 the regions first pediatric trauma center opened in the hospital. In 2016 The Kosair Children's Hospital rebranded as Norton Children's Hospital.

Awards

In 2014 Norton Children's Hospital ranked among the top 50 children's hospitals in the country and nationally ranked in six categories including #21 in cancer care, #24 in orthopedics, #24 in pulmonology, #29 in neurology and neurosurgery, #31 in urology, #40 in cardiology and heart surgery, and #51 in nephrology. In 2020 Norton Children's Hospital ranked nationally in 3 specialties by the U.S. News & World Report. The ranked specialties were #42 in neonatalogy, #49 in diabetes and endocrinology, and #35 in urology. The hospital has the highest ratings of any children's hospital in Kentucky.

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