Children's Specialized Hospital (CSH) is a children's rehabilitation hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It has 140 beds.[1] Founded in 1891, the hospital supports a wide range of research with five core areas of research focus - autism, mobility, cognition, brain injury, and chronic illness. It treats infants, children, teens, and young adults up until the age of 21.[2][3] Its largest campus is in New Brunswick campus which is a member of the greater Children's Academic Health Campus.[4]
| Children's Specialized Hospital | |
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| RWJBarnabas Health | |
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 The main entrance of the New Brunswick campus of Children's Specialized Hospital | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | 200 Somerset St, New Brunswick, NJ, New Jersey, United States |
| Organization | |
| Type | Children’s Rehabilitation Hospital |
| Affiliated university | Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Rutgers University |
| Network | RWJ Barnabas Health |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | None, next door at The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital |
| Beds | 140 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1891 |
| Links | |
| Website | Website |
| Lists | Hospitals in New Jersey |
History
editEarly history
editThe hospital was founded in the summer of 1891 in Westfield, New Jersey. On June 30, 1891, local residents held a meeting discussing how to help local children living in the tenements, and organized into a board of managers with William G. Peckham and Laura Thurston Peckham organizing. Laura Peckham became president. They raised money from local churches, and the hospital opened at Levi Cory House at Mountain Avenue and New Providence Road on July 15, 1892. 59 city children stayed at the home over the summer, with two-week stays each. The home became a hospital as well, when it became apparent many of the children needed medical attention. The hospital filed a certificate of incorporation on April 4, 1893 as Children's Country Home. It later moved to New Providence Road in Mountainside in 1896. In 1962, it became Children's Specialized Hospital. In 1988, it founded its Pediatric Long Term Care Unit for 25 children, and also opened the hospital's Outpatient Center in Fanwood. Children's Specialized Hospital joined the Robert Wood Johnson Health System in 1999.[5]
Later history
editIn 2000, the hospital became responsible for the Rosemary Cuccaro Pediatric Medical Day Care Center in Elizabeth.[5]
Around 2010, the hospital developed a program to treat babies with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), with about 12 to 15 babies treated a year. By 2015, other programs included treating "complex physical disabilities like brain and spinal cord injuries, to developmental and behavioral issues like autism and mental health."[6]
In 2011, the hospital had a number of entertainers visit patients and staff. They included the Midtown Men, which were from the original cast of Jersey Boys.[7]
In 2012, the hospital released research showing that six underserved communities in New Jersey cities had higher rates of autism. The test involved the screening of 1,000 children from Newark, Plainfield, Elizabeth, Trenton, New Brunswick and Bridgeton, and was funded by the New Jersey Governor's Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Autism.[8]
In 2014, L’Oreal raised $625,000 for the Children's Specialized Hospital Foundation, with the funds to be support the expansion of the PSE&G Children's Specialized Hospital. It allowed eight beds to be added to the 60-bed inpatient hospital in New Brunswick.[9]
Around 2011, the hospital began focusing a lot on research into rehabilitation in five big areas: autism, mobility, cognition, brain injury, and chronic illness.[4] By 2016, the hospital was doing research with the Kessler Foundation (of the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation) in conjunction with the New Jersey Department of Education to study in-patient stay outcomes at school after discharge from the hospital.[4] It also had around 60 different research projects going, studying topics such as autism and eksoskeletons to help with walking.[4]
Current locations
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By 2010, had 13 locations in the state, with facilities handling both inpatient and outpatient, medical day care, long-term care, and specialty care.[6]
It had 13 locations in New Jersey in 2016. These were in Mountainside, Fanwood, two in New Brunswick, Roselle Park, two in Toms River, Newark, Egg Harbor Township, Hamilton, Clifton, Bayonne, and Warren.[4]
PSE&G Children's Specialized Hospital
editThe largest of the Children's Specialized Hospital locations, this inpatient acute care hospital features 140 beds. PSE&G Children's Specialized Hospital is located adjacent to The Bristol Myers Squibb Children's Hospital, the Child Health Institute, and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.
Rady Children's Hospital Partnership
editIn 2019, Children's Specialized Hospital announced a partnership with Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego CA. The partnership helps to establish the first inpatient children's chronic pain program in Southern California. The program helps to provide pain relief for children and adolescents without using opioids. The new unit is branded with CSH's branding and the unit follows CSH policies on pediatric chronic rehabilitation and pain relief in children and teens up to the age of 21.[10][11][12][13]
Services
editChildren's Specialized Hospital treats a variety of medical conditions in patients aged 0–21 including:[14]
- Autism
- Spinal cord injuries
- Infant and toddler rehabilitation
- Chronic pain management
- Developmental and behavioral issues
- Pediatric trauma services (ie, ventilator management, tracheostomy care, IV antibiotic administration, wound care)
- Brain injuries
- Physical Therapy
- Lymphedema (swelling due to the accumulation of lymphatic fluid around skin cells)
- Fetal alcohol syndrome
- Cerebral Palsy
- Neuromuscular and genetic disorders (ie, muscular dystrophy, spinal muscular atrophy, Guillain Barre syndrome, neuropathies, myopathies)
See also
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References
edit- ^ "Children's Specialized Hospital". Retrieved 21 February 2023.
- ^ "A Family Faces the Reality of Leaving the Children's Hospital Environment". Children's Hospital Association. 1 February 2019. Archived from the original on 2020-09-26. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
- ^ "About Our Organization | Children's Specialized Hospital". www.childrens-specialized.org. Archived from the original on 2019-01-03. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
- ^ a b c d e Bloom, Susan. "Children's Specialized Hospital drives a broad range of research related to pediatric health issues". Courier News. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
- ^ a b "History | Children's Specialized Hospital". RWJBarnabas Health. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
- ^ a b Matthau, David. "Helping NJ newborns go through drug withdrawal". New Jersey 101.5. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
- ^ "Entertainers Visit Patients At PSE&G Children's Specialized Hospital". Ngtoday.net. 23 September 2011. Archived from the original on 31 July 2017. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
- ^ NJ.com, Seth Augenstein | NJ Advance Media for (2012-05-16). "Six underserved N.J. communities show higher rates of autism in young children, research finds". nj. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
- ^ "L'Oréal Group USA News Group". www.loreal.com. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
- ^ "CSH-Rady-Partnership | Children's Specialized Hospital". www.childrens-specialized.org. Retrieved 2020-02-09.
- ^ "Rady Children's Hospital adopts new opioid-free pain relief program". KGTV. 2019-04-12. Archived from the original on 2019-06-14. Retrieved 2020-02-09.
- ^ Health, RWJBarnabas. "Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego Announces New Partnership to Launch Southern California's First Inpatient Pediatric and Adolescent Chronic Pain Program With New Jersey's Children's Specialized Hospital". www.prnewswire.com. Archived from the original on 2019-10-07. Retrieved 2020-02-09.
- ^ "Inpatient Chronic Pain Program". www.rchsd.org. Archived from the original on 2020-09-26. Retrieved 2020-02-09.
- ^ "Children's Specialized Hospital". RWJBarnabas Health. Archived from the original on 2020-06-14. Retrieved 2020-01-04.