Mission Children's Hospital

Enhancing Quality of Care

For parents in Western North Carolina, quality pediatric care means having specialists close to home who are skilled in the full range of childhood diseases, and facilities that are dedicated to the highest standards and best possible outcomes. In 2008, Mission Children's Hospital continued to build on its reputation for quality.

• A growing team of subspecialists - Mission Children's Hospital has expanded its medical staff, adding subspecialists in pediatric neurology, pediatric endocrinology and pediatric gastroenterology. Mission Children's Hospital has highly trained physicians representing more than a dozen pediatric subspecialties, who practice together in the Reuter Children's Outpatient Center - creating a pediatric center of excellence for parents in Western North Carolina.
• World-class NICU care - Our neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) now participates in the Vermont Oxford Network, a collaboration of more than 800 NICUs around the world that track and share data to improve the quality and safety of medical care for newborn infants. By comparing ourselves to our peers, we have found that Mission Children's Hospital's NICU ranks in the top tier internationally in our outcomes. For example, our NICU has a lower incidence of babies developing chronic lung disease than the international benchmark level.
• Protecting babies from brain damage - Mission Children's Hospital has adopted a leading-edge approach called "induced hypothermia" - literally cooling the body down - to protect tiny babies from brain damage when they are in a medical crisis. We are working with neonatal and pediatric transport professionals around the region to spread the word about this new protocol, which can make a dramatic difference in the lives of babies and their families.

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