Children's Minnesota is one of the largest children’s health care organizations in the U.S., with two hospitals, 12 primary and specialty care clinics, and six rehabilitation sites representing more than 60 pediatric specialties. Children's Minnesota has the largest and broadest team of pediatric experts in the region, with 381 staffed beds at its two hospital campuses in St. Paul and Minneapolis. An independent, not-for-profithealth care system since 1924, Children’s Minnesota is the only health system in Minnesota to provide care exclusively to children, from before birth through young adulthood. In 2018, Children's Minnesota served a total of 135,750 patients, providing 25,761 surgical procedures, 91,495 emergency department visits and 467,118 outpatient clinic visits. Dr. Marc Gorelick became President and Chief Executive Officer at Children's Minnesota in December 2017. The health system's board of directors agreed to extend Dr. Gorelick's contract through 2024. Children's has a full range of pediatric specialty services, critical care, and clinics to serve premature infants through older teens. While Children's serves thousands of the region's sick children each year, the organization also strives to keep children well and to prevent illness and injury. Children's of Minnesota also includes Children’s Clinics – Woodbury, specialty and rehabilitation clinics in Woodbury; Children's – Roseville, a rehabilitation clinic in Roseville; and Children's – Minnetonka, an outpatient surgery, diagnostic center, and rehabilitation clinic in Minnetonka.
Awards and rankings
In December 2018, Children’s Minnesota attained Level I Children’s Surgery Center verification by the American College of Surgeons. Children's Minnesota is the first and only hospital in Minnesota to earn this distinction of meeting national quality and safety standards for children’s surgery. Children's Minnesota attained Magnet® recognition for nursing excellence from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, becoming the only free-standing pediatric system in the state to be recognized by the ANCC with Magnet® designation. Considered the gold standard, Magnet recognizes quality patient care, nursing excellence and innovations in professional nursing practice. At the time of Children's announcement in March, 2018, only 8 percent of hospitals nationally had earned this designation, including only three other health systems in Minnesota.
