Children's Hospital & Clinics

Description

Serving as Minnesotas childrens hospitalSM since 1924 we provide 340 staffed beds at our two hospital campuses in St Paul and Minneapolis An independent notforprofit health care system Childrens provides care through more than 12000 inpatient visits and more than 200000 emergency room and other outpatient visits each year

Our Mission
We champion the special health needs of children and their families We are committed to improving childrens health by providing highquality family centered pediatric services We advance these efforts through research and education

Our Vision
To become one of the nations best pediatric providers accessible to all children

History

1924 A hospital just for children

Walter Reeve Ramsey MD raises money to open Childrens Hospital of St Paul The first hospital on the corner of Smith Avenue and Walnut Street in St Paul opens in 1924 and begins operating with 16 beds

In 1928 the Childrens Hospital moves to a new building on Pleasant Avenue with the promise of free care for needy children Childrens has 15 physicians on staff and the minimum daily rate for a hospital stay is 250

In 1933 Junior League members incorporate the Childrens Hospital Association CHA responding to an appeal from Dr Ramsey to make hospital care available to poor families during the Depression

In 1953 a group of Junior League members and physicians incorporates the Childrens Hospital of Minneapolis and begins fundraising The Childrens Minneapolis Association emerges from the group of Junior League supporters

In 1959 the Lang Wing of Childrens St Paul is dedicated in honor of Theodora H Lang the first woman president of the board of trustees Mrs Lang served on Childrens board for more than 60 years

In 1967 Arnold Anderson MD is named medical director and chief executive officer of the Minneapolis childrens hospital even before it is built In 1969 ground is finally broken on Chicago Avenue

Childrens Minneapolis opens its doors Childrens St Paul gets a new home too

In 1973 the Minneapolis Childrens Health Center opens as a modern innovative model of familycentered care

In 1979 Childrens St Paul also moves into a new building on its current site on Smith Avenue

St Paul and Minneapolis childrens hospitals merge in 1994
In 1994 the Minneapolis Childrens Medical Center and Childrens Hospital of St Paul merge becoming the largest pediatric health care provider in the upper Midwest

During the 1990s Childrens opens a center for outpatient surgery and pediatric rehabilitation services in Minnetonka known as Childrens Minnetonka Childrens Roseville opens as a clinic for developmental and rehabilitation services Childrens Clinics Woodwinds also opens offering rehabilitation and specialty clinics

Today the organization is known as Childrens Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota and is the seventhlargest childrens health care organization in the US