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Children’s National is proud to be named #1 for newborn intensive care in the U.S. News & World Report Best Children’s Hospitals survey and ranked among the Top 10 children’s hospitals overall. What makes us the best choice for care in the nation’s capital? Expertise that’s focused on children’s unique needs and support for every family.

Children’s National Health System has been awarded a $3.7 million grant from the American Heart Association (AHA) to launch a Rheumatic Heart Disease Center, with the goal of developing innovative strategies and economic incentives to improve the prevention and diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in high-risk, financially disadvantaged countries and low-income communities across the United States.

$500,000 Grant from Children’s Health Board Makes Improvements to physical Space and Equipment Updates Possible

Researchers from Children’s National Health System and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have developed a new measure of children’s flexible thinking, the Flexibility Scale. This tool is the first to provide a measurement that captures links between cognitive skills and social functioning in children and directly addresses social flexibility, which is fundamental to a child’s ability to make friends and be successful in school.

It was smiles all around today as 80 children were welcomed to their new dental home at Children’s National Health System in Washington, D.C., as part of the fifth annual Healthy Smiles, Healthy Children Dental Home Day.

20,000 U.S. children transported to Emergency Departments each year for firearm-related injuries. For the many children who do encounter firearms in the home, the results can be devastating.

Children’s National Health System installed Allison Jackson, MD, MPH, as the inaugural Washington Children’s Foundation Professor of Child and Adolescent Protection.