Huntington Hospital’s Department of Pediatrics provides the highest quality of inpatient and outpatient care to infants, children, and adolescents.

Outpatient care

More than 40 pediatricians practicing in our community are members of Huntington Hospital’s attending medical staff.

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The Clark Gilles Children’s Emergency Care Center

Approximately 10,000 children are treated each year in Huntington Hospital’s Children’s Emergency Care Center. Completed in 2007 with funds generously donated by the Glark Gilles Foundation, the Center is part of the hospital’s Department of Emergency Medicine. Our Pediatric and Emergency Medicine attending physicians provide the very best care possible around the clock. For those children who require hospital admission, the close collaboration between our Emergency physicians and Children’s Hospitalist team ensures continuity of care as well.

Dolan Family Health Center Department of Pediatrics

Acute outpatient care and well/preventive care are provided by the attending pediatricians and pediatric nurse practitioners at the Dolan Family Health Center. Seeking to address the needs of the indigent and under-insured, the staff at Huntington Hospital's Dolan Family Health Center provides care to infants, children and adolescents regardless of financial means.

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Inpatient care

Perinatal Services

Approximately 1,800 babies are delivered at Huntington Hospital each year. The majority are cared for by the Pediatric Attending staff. For those newborns requiring specialty care, a neonatologist from the Division of Newborn Medicine at Schneider Children’s Hospital is on site at Huntington Hospital at all times. In addition to their participation at every cesarean birth at Huntington Hospital, neonatologists treat premature infants, infants of diabetic mothers (IDM) and those with a number of conditions including respiratory distress, neonatal infections, hyperbilirubinemia, among many others. Newborns who require prolonged or complex subspecialty care may be transferred to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Schneider Children’s Hospital. All transfers are carried out with thoughtful consideration to continuity of care.

Clark Gilles Pediatric Unit

Children with a variety of acute conditions are admitted for care on the Clark Gilles Pediatric Unit. Managed by the Children’s Hospitalist team in collaboration with our community pediatricians, this service provides the highest quality inpatient care in a community hospital setting. At Huntington Hospital, children receive treatment in a child and parent-friendly atmosphere which minimizes the trauma of hospitalization, fosters continuity of care, and hastens recovery.

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Children’s Hospitalist Program

The Children’s Hospitalist Program ensures that a pediatrician or pediatric-certified nurse practitioner is on-site, 24 hours-a-day, seven days-a-week, to oversee and manage the care provided to infants, children and adolescents admitted with a range of medical and surgical conditions. Huntington is one of only a handful of hospitals in the region to offer this service. Working closely with our community pediatricians, these specialists in the care of hospitalized children assure the highest level of expertise, and continuous availability to monitor our patients’ changing needs. Parents find the accessibility of these practitioners reassuring, and conducive to effective patient and family education.

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Pediatric Subspecialty and Surgical Services

In addition to the specialists in Newborn Medicine described above, children cared for at Huntington may require consultation from other specialists with formal pediatric training. Consultations are also available from staff members in Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Neurology, Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Hematology, Surgery, Neurosurgery, Urology and Anesthesia.