Since April 1996, Connecticut Children's Medical Center has been the academic home for the Department of Pediatrics and the principal training site for the University of Connecticut Pediatric Residency Program and for medical student pediatric education. The departmental offices, including the Office of Medical Education, are located in the facility, which is an independent children's medical center located on the Hartford Hospital campus.

The medical center is an eight-level, 315,500 square-foot complex with 85 medical and surgical beds, six operating rooms, and a 10-room pediatric emergency medicine suite, with an adjoining 8-bed, observation unit. The medical center includes 32 neonatal intensive care beds located in Hartford Hospital and 15 child psychiatry beds in the nearby Institute of Living.

Connecticut Children's Medical Center is home to important regional programs including the Connecticut Childhood Injury Prevention Center; the Children's Cancer Center; the Chronic Infant Lung Disease Program; the Juvenile Diabetes Center; and the Clinical Genetics Program and the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Program.

The inpatient service admits over 5,000 patients each year. The inpatient services include three Medical-surgical Units where patients are grouped by age and circumstance, the Rehabilitation Service, and the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). The 18-bed PICU cares for over 500 children annually. Thirty percent of these critically ill children will be transported from other sites, many by the Hartford Hospital-based LIFE STAR helicopter. The PICU serves both as the regional center for critically ill children and our regional Pediatric Trauma Center.  
 
 

The medical center's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, located at Hartford Hospital, admits 600 infants yearly. Many of these neonates are among the 5,000 babies born at Hartford Hospital each year and a large number of them are socially and medically at high risk. Residents, along with attending neonatologists, neonatal fellows, and neonatal nurse practitioners, participate in the neonatal resuscitation team that cares for babies in the Hartford Hospital delivery room. The associated well-baby nursery provides the site for training of residents in the care of the well newborn, including both high-risk and routine care.

Ambulatory care at Connecticut Children's Medical Center includes a primary care practice, a regional dedicated pediatric emergency center, anacute observation unit, and a full range of subspecialty practices. The ambulatory service is the busiest in the region, with over 200,000 visits annually. The general pediatric practice provides one of the settings for an innovative and integrated curriculum in ambulatory pediatrics. Residents will participate fully in these settings with increasing autonomy and full supervision by the readily accessible faculty in these areas. Scheduled and acute care experience includes longitudinal experiences in behavior and development, community activities, and subspecialty care, in addition to general ambulatory pediatrics.

In the pediatric emergency medicine department, residents are supervised by a full-time staff of Pediatric Emergency Medicine faculty 24 hours a day. Other members of the team include mid-level practitioners and nursing staff. This team also oversees patients in the observation unit and participates in the care of pediatric trauma patients.

The subspecialty services at the Connecticut Children's Medical Center are the regional tertiary resources for northern Connecticut and beyond. We are located in Connecticut's capital city of Hartford, and our referral area has a population of approximately 1.2 million people. Connecticut Children's Medical Center serves as home to many of the academic divisions providing these services and the associated teaching and research. The full spectrum of pediatric subspecialties includes cardiology, gastroenterology, nephrology, hematology/oncology, pulmonology, neurology, infectious disease, endocrinology, rheumatology, rehabilitation, child psychiatry, human genetics, radiology, orthopaedics, surgery and surgical subspecialties. The medical center has an active pediatric attending staff and community faculty of more than 400 physicians, which includes 120 dedicated and talented teachers involved in the Residency Program. Their private patients are admitted to both inpatient and ambulatory units when necessary. All patients become part of the teaching service, and residents benefit by participating in the care for these patients and achieve insight into the perspectives of community-based primary care pediatricians.

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