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Penn State Health Children's Hospital (PSCH) is a nationally ranked women's and pediatric acute care
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located in Hershey,
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. The hospital has 134 pediatric beds. PSCH is affiliated with the
Penn State College of Medicine Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine (PSCOM), known simply as Penn State College of Medicine is the medical school of Pennsylvania State University, a public university system in Pennsylvania. It is located in Hershey near the Penn ...
and is located at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21 throughout central Pennsylvania and surrounding regions. Penn State Health Children's Hospital also sometimes treats adults that require pediatric care. PSCH also features an
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designated Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center, 1 of 4 in the state. It maintains the region's only Level IV (highest level), state-of-the-art
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(NICU) and Level I (highest level) pediatric trauma center. It is staffed by 200 pediatric medical and surgical specialists.


History

Penn State Health Children's Hospital is the sole beneficiary of charity, Four Diamonds which was started in 1972 to provide monetary support to childhood cancer patients at PSCH. Four Diamonds is the sole beneficiary of the annual Penn State IFC/ Panhellenic
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(THON) event at Penn State University's University Park campus. It is the largest student run charity in the world. Since 1977, THON has raised more than $190 million. It is probably named after a short story by Christopher Millard. He was 14 years old when he died of cancer in 1972. Shortly before losing his battle, Chris wrote a story about a great knight named Sir Millard who sought out the four diamonds of Courage, Wisdom, Honesty and Strength in order to be released from the grips of an evil sorceress. These diamonds symbolized the attributes that Chris believed were necessary to overcome cancer. There is a 1995 movie based on this story. In October 2006, Penn State Health Children's Hospital's trauma center was one of the receiving hospitals' for victims of the
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in
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, treating three of the pediatric victims from the shooting. Originally, Penn State Health Children's Hospital was housed in a five-story building opened in 2013. In Spring, 2018 Penn State began a $148 million, 126,000-square-foot vertical expansion to the building. In Fall 2020 a vertical expansion on the building was completed adding three floors and moving the Women and Babies Center, a 56-bed Level IV neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and the state's only Small Baby Unit from the former location in the main hospital. In July 2020, grocery store company,
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donated $1 million to the hospital to help support the three-floor expansion, expand the pediatric trauma and injury prevention program, and to expand the "Penn State PRO Wellness Healthy Champions program."


Awards

The hospital was selected by insurance company
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as an "institute of excellence" in pediatric congenital heart surgery. In 2008 and 2011, Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital was listed on the '' U.S. News & World Report'' as one of America's Best Children's Hospitals. For the 2013–2014 year, The Penn State Health Children's Hospital was ranked in 3 specialties including: Cancer (#42), Orthopedics (#34) and Diabetes and Endocrinology (#46). On the 2019-20 U.S. News & World Report the hospital was ranked as #48 in pediatric cancer and #27 in pediatric cardiology and heart surgery. The hospital was ranked nationally in five pediatric specialties and as the third best children's hospital in Pennsylvania on the 2020-21 U.S. News & World Report: Best Children's Hospitals rankings.


See also

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Penn State College of Medicine Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine (PSCOM), known simply as Penn State College of Medicine is the medical school of Pennsylvania State University, a public university system in Pennsylvania. It is located in Hershey near the Penn ...
* Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center


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