City: Norfolk, VA

Category: Health Care

Telephone: (757) 668-7000

Address: 601 Children’s Lane

Description: This is a health system dedicated exclusively to children. It’s on the same campus as the Eastern Virginia Medical Center and connected physically to Sentara Norfolk General. It’s the place where the most difficult neonatal cases are taken. It also offers special units for pediatric intensive care, rehabilitation, cancer treatment, medical and surgical care, and transitional care. The hospital combines cutting-edge medicine with child life specialists, chaplains, teachers, social workers, and parent and patient education programs. Parents can sleep in their kids’ rooms here, making it easier for tots to rest. The emergency room is geared just for children and sees 42,000 patients a year. Their surgeons are specialists who know how to deal with a frightened child and tiny bodies. Waiting areas are filled with toys and video games and patients can choose how they want to get to the operating room: on a bike, in a wagon, or carried by staff.Any specialty out there dealing with child medicine is offered here, from orthopedics to plastic surgery. EVMS pediatric residents train here, and the hospital operates a child abuse program designed to help little victims.