M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital (formerly known as
Amplatz Children's Hospital) is a
non-profit
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pediatric
Pediatrics ( also spelled ''paediatrics'' or ''pædiatrics'') is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, paediatrics covers many of their youth until the ...
acute care
hospital located in
Minneapolis
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,
Minnesota
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. The hospital has 212 beds and is affiliated with
University of Minnesota Medical School
The University of Minnesota Medical School is the medical school of the University of Minnesota. It is a combination of two campuses situated in Minneapolis and Duluth, Minnesota.
The University of Minnesota Medical School is also part of one of ...
. The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to pediatric patients aged 0–21 throughout Minnesota and
midwest United States. Masonic Children's Hospital is also a state designated
Level III Trauma Center.
History
The history of a
University of Minnesota
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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 building. The new hospital included 3 pediatric units, a
neonatal intensive care unit, a
pediatric intensive care unit (PICU),and a pediatric
bone marrow transplant
Hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT) is the transplantation of multipotent hematopoietic stem cells, usually derived from bone marrow, peripheral blood, or umbilical cord blood in order to replicate inside of a patient and to produce ...
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.
The modern day children's hospital first opened up in 2011 at a cost of $25 million and was named Amplatz Children's Hospital. In 2014, the hospital was renamed to University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital. In 1997, M Health merged with Fairview and the hospital is now known as M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital after a large donation. The hospital is 6 stories large and includes multiple different inpatient units.
Services
Masonic Children's Hospital also features a level 4 neonatal intensive care unit.
It provides pediatric programs including pediatric general surgery, imaging, and neonatal and pediatric intensive care to cardiac and
oncology
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services, blood and marrow transplant,
bone marrow, and
organ transplantation
Organ transplantation is a medical procedure in which an organ is removed from one body and placed in the body of a recipient, to replace a damaged or missing organ. The donor and recipient may be at the same location, or organs may be transpor ...
. The hospital also includes Minnesota's only children's behavioral inpatient unit and programming that focuses on children ages 12 and younger.
See also
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M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center
M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center (UMMC) previously known as University of Minnesota Medical Center, is an 1700-bed non-profit, tertiary, research and academic medical center located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, servicing the ...
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Shriners Children's
References
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Hospitals in Minnesota
Hospitals established in 1986
Buildings and structures in Minneapolis
Children's hospitals in the United States