Children's Hospital Colorado - Clinical Services

Clinical Services

Children's Hospital Colorado treats pediatric patients with childhood illnesses, conditions and disorders such as:

• Allergy
• Asthma, Breathing & Lung
• Behavior & Development
• Brain, Spinal Cord & Nervous System
• Cancer & Blood Disorders
• Dental
• Diabetes, Endocrine & Growth
• Digestive, Liver & Pancreas
• Ear, Nose & Throat
• Eye
• Genetics & Inherited Metabolic Diseases
• Gynecology
• Hearing, Speech & Learning
• Heart
• Immune System & Infectious Disease
• Kidney, Bladder & Urinary
• Newborn
• Orthopedic
• Psychology & Psychiatry
• Rehabilitation & Therapy
• Skin
• Sleep
• Sports Medicine
• Teen Health
• Weight Management

Noteworthy Programs

• It is the only Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center in Colorado.
• It has a Level IIIC Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, the highest distinction granted by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Children’s Hospital Colorado NICU treats nearly 750 infants each year from a 10-state area, and is the only NICU in the region with the experience and technology to treat virtually any medical condition affecting newborns.
• Children’s Hospital Colorado Heart Institute is recognized as an international leader in pediatric cardiac care and it is one of only eight stand-alone pediatric research centers in the nation. Children’s Hospital Colorado Heart Institute is the only full-service, pediatric cardiac care center in the seven-state region.
  • Children’s Hospital Colorado Heart Institute Transplant Program has been a world leader in Heart Transplantations of infants and children for the last 15 years.
• Children’s Hospital Colorado offers leading pediatric weight management programs, including the SHAPEDOWN Clinic, the nation’s leading weight program for adolescents and children.
• Children’s Hospital Colorado Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders provides the region’s only Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Program for brain tumor diagnosis and treatment; the only program for teen-aged children with cancer; the only Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Program; and the only pediatric Experimental Therapeutics Program investigating promising new drugs for cancer treatment.
• Children’s Hospital Colorado is home to region’s first and only Center for Gait and Movement Analysis. The CGMA, or Gait Lab, is one of only 40 centers in the country that provides a comprehensive analysis of gait and movement for patients with neuromuscular disorders. This allows teams to gather data essential to helping children with neuromuscular issues, amputation and other conditions walk better.

Affiliation with The University of Colorado

Children’s campus is affiliated with, and adjacent to, the University of Colorado School of Medicine. The University is home to world-class education and research facilities. Children’s is staffed with doctors from the department of pediatrics which was ranked 5th in the nation by U.S. News and World Report Honor Roll in 2011.

This proximity allows the hospital to be at the center of medical research in the Rocky Mountain region and to provide the latest and most effective treatment to its pediatric patients. Children’s has long been on the forefront of medical research, establishing a Research Foundation in 1953.

The hospital and its affiliates at the University are responsible for virtually all of the pediatric research published in the Rocky Mountain region in the past decade, as well as several internationally recognized medical milestones, including the discovery of toxic shock syndrome and development of new pediatric heart surgery techniques now used around the world.