Top 10 Child Care Hospitals in 2022

have the opportunity to help change the trajectory of life by
helping children at any stage of health or illness live beyond
limits.
How do you envision scaling your organization’s
operations in 2022 and beyond?
We will leverage resources and expertise to respond to two
strong trends in pediatric healthcare. The first is the shift
from inpatient care in community hospitals to children's
hospitals. We are unique in that there is no other hospital
within a 3-hour radius that provides the level of complex
care for children that we do.
We plan to leverage that expertise to support care close to
home where safe and appropriate and expand programs to
ease the burden for families that need to travel to the
children's hospital for inpatient stays or procedures. We
provide televideo consultation to a dozen community
hospital emergency departments and hold outpatient
specialty clinics in 15 communities. We plan to expand both
strategies.
The second trend is the shift from inpatient to outpatient
care. To strengthen the quality of care as well as referral
channels across the continuum of care, we are deploying
strategies to formalize partnerships with pediatricians
across the state of Illinois to provide medical education,
informal physician to physician consultation, patient
navigation, and establish best practice care guidelines for
common childhood conditions such as Asthma.
What is your opinion on the adoption of modern
technologies such as AI and ML in the healthcare space?
There are a lot of opportunities and much to be learned
about the effective implementation of artificial intelligence
and machine learning in healthcare. Our industry has been
slower to adopt AI and ML than other industries. Some of
that may be due to the emphasis on clinical intuition in the
treatment of illness as well as the challenges with keeping
up with changing protocols and best practices in AIsupported
clinical decision-making.
At OSF Children's Hospital of Illinois, we have begun work
in this area with success through the implementation of AI
regarding predictive analytics related to reducing the length
of hospital stays and readmissions. There is a growing body
of evidence to support the implementation of AI and ML in
developing effective algorithms to improve patient
engagement and adherence to treatment for long-term,
chronic issues. This is something we have begun to explore,
especially related to social determinants of health.
Finally, there seems to be growing evidence and interest in
the incorporation of AI and ML into genomic medicine. We
have had very positive experiences in our NICU with the
use of genomic sequencing to support diagnosis and to fully
inform parents in making decisions regarding care. It seems
like a natural progression to incorporate AI into this process
for effectively planning treatment in settings like the NICU
and even in other settings such as cancer care.
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State-designated Level I Pediatric Trauma Center – the
highest level of care available.
The first state-designated Pediatric Critical Care
Hospital.
Proven world-class outcomes in the NICU as a member
of the Vermont Oxford Network.
Most comprehensive downstate Perinatal Center (postbirth
care).
Level IV NICU - the highest level of care available. The
NICU also offers a Small Baby Unit – one of the first in
Illinois – caring for babies born before 30 weeks
gestation.
Home to the only Pediatric Diabetes Resource Center
and Congenital Heart Center in downstate Illinois.
Cares for more children in Illinois than any hospital
between St. Louis and Chicago, with 7,000 admissions,
2,500 new-born deliveries, and 18,000 emergency
department visits annually.
Ranked one of the most technologically advanced
children's hospitals in the world by Top Master's in
Health Care Administration.
OSF HealthCare Children’s Hospital of Illinois was
recognized among the top three children's hospitals in
Illinois and among the top 25 in the Midwest region for
2021-2022 by U.S. News & World Report.
OSF HealthCare Children's Hospital of Illinois is one of
the first ten clinical research centers to join the ASH
Research Collaborative Cell Disease Clinical Trials
Network.
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