Children's Hospital (WVUH)

Name :

Children's Hospital (WVUH)

Address  :

6th Floor, Ruby
PO Box 8200

Town  :

Morgantown

State  :

West Virginia

Country  :

USA

Post Code:

26506

Phone  :

304 598 4000

Fax  :

304 598 4967

Web URL  :


Description

WVU Childrens Hospital in Morgantown WV provides specialty maternal infant and pediatric care for the state of West Virginia and the surrounding region We provide care to highrisk mothers premature infants and children with lifethreatening conditions through adolescence to adulthood

WVU Childrens Hospital is located on the 6th floor of Ruby Memorial Hospital WVU Childrens Hospital includes a pediatric and adolescent ward with 32 beds 6 East a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit PICU with 20 beds a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit NICU with 39 beds and a suite of 25 labordeliverypostpartum rooms for the mother and infant Maternal Infant Care Center MICC an activity room and teenroom facilitate the rehabilitation of our young patients Child Life Program

Our physicians and staff represent several pediatric specialty areas including nationally recognized programs for the medical and surgical management of congenital heart disease and pediatric neurosurgery

The special tools they use for diagnosis and treatment reflect recent changes in technology so that our patients have access to the most uptodate procedures available

Not only patients benefit from our attention our method of familycentered care makes it possible for the families and loved ones of patients to be a part of the healing process


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