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HRSA 01-51 |
HHS Awards Nearly $227 Million to Children’s Teaching Hospitals
to Ensure Quality Health Care for America’s Children
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HHS Secretary
Tommy G. Thompson today announced payments totaling nearly
$227 million to 57 children’s teaching hospitals across the
nation to assure that tomorrow’s physicians receive top-quality
medical training. These
awards will help children’s hospitals to continue to train
and educate the nation’s pediatric workforce.
“Our
children deserve the best medical care possible, and that
requires the best trained doctors who care for them,” Secretary
Thompson said. “These
awards will help to assure a brighter future by supporting
top-notch medical training for pediatricians and other pediatric
specialists.”
Independent
children’s teaching hospitals provide clinical care to young
patients, conduct research, and educate and train resident
physicians. These hospitals train about 30 percent of the nation's pediatricians
and almost half of pediatric specialists.
They devote nearly half of their patient care to children
who are covered under Medicaid or are uninsured.
More than 75 percent of the children who receive care
at these hospitals have one or more chronic, inherited conditions.
“These funds go
to independent children’s hospitals which train almost a third
of all doctors who specialize in caring for children,” said
Elizabeth M. Duke, acting administrator of the Health Resources
and Services Administration.
Today’s
awards are intended to provide financial support for independent
children’s teaching hospitals similar to that provided through
Medicare to other teaching hospitals.
Because independent children's teaching hospitals do
not serve the elderly, they receive virtually no graduate
medical education (GME) funds through Medicare, which supports
more than 1,000 other U.S. teaching hospitals with $7 billion
in annual awards.
HHS’
Health Resources and Services Administration awards and oversees
the fiscal year 2001 payments announced today. The list of
recipients is attached below.
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Children’s Hospitals
Graduate Medical Education Payments
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| Hospital
|
City |
State |
Payment
|
|
Children's Hospital of Alabama
|
Birmingham
|
Ala.
|
$4,363,101.66
|
|
Arkansas Children's Hospital
|
Little Rock
|
Ark.
|
5,450,695.90
|
|
Miller's Children's Hospital
|
Long Beach
|
Calif.
|
2,023,836.20
|
|
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
|
Los Angeles
|
Calif.
|
9,703,081.33
|
|
Valley Children's Hospital
|
Madera
|
Calif.
|
496,431.74
|
| Children's
Hospital Medical Center of Northern California
|
Oakland |
Calif. |
6,310,366.78
|
|
Children's Hospital of Orange County
|
Orange
|
Calif.
|
1,581,165.44
|
|
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford
|
Palo Alto
|
Calif.
|
4,202,679.77
|
|
Children's Hospital -- San Diego
|
San Diego
|
Calif.
|
2,362,641.91
|
|
The Children's Hospital Association
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Denver
|
Colo.
|
5,530,908.56
|
|
Connecticut Children's Medical Center
|
Hartford
|
Conn.
|
3,034,377.09
|
|
Alfred I. du Pont Institute of the Nemours
Foundation
|
Wilmington
|
Del.
|
2,772,606.34
|
|
Children's Hospital National Medical Center
|
Washington
|
D.C.
|
9,537,075.17
|
|
Miami Children's Hospital
|
Miami
|
Fla.
|
4,581,429.46
|
|
All Children's Hospital
|
St. Petersburg
|
Fla.
|
2,695,621.53
|
|
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston
|
Atlanta
|
Ga.
|
3,635,111.18
|
| Children's
Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite |
Atlanta |
Ga. |
392,278.76
|
|
Kapi'olani
Medical Center for Women & Children
|
Honolulu
|
Hawaii
|
2,256,665.38
|
|
Children's Memorial Hospital
|
Chicago
|
Ill.
|
7,716,418.77
|
|
LaRabida Children's Hospital
|
Chicago
|
Ill.
|
248,402.00
|
|
Children's Hospital
|
New Orleans
|
La.
|
2,090,344.80
|
|
Kennedy Krieger Children’s Hospital
|
Baltimore
|
Md.
|
249,108.13
|
|
Children's Hospital Boston
|
Boston
|
Mass.
|
18,142,392.93
|
|
Children's Hospital of Michigan
|
Detroit
|
Mich.
|
11,109,432.85
|
|
Children's Hospitals and Clinics – Minneapolis
|
Minneapolis
|
Minn.
|
816,635.97
|
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Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare
|
St. Paul
|
Minn.
|
348,771.99
|
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Children's Hospitals and Clinics – St. Paul
|
St. Paul
|
Minn.
|
1,743,077.50
|
|
Children's Mercy Hospital
|
Kansas City
|
Mo.
|
5,297,741.04
|
|
St. Louis Children's Hospital
|
St. Louis
|
Mo.
|
6,560,720.58
|
|
Children's Hospital
|
Omaha
|
Neb.
|
631,135.06
|
|
Children's Specialized Hospital
|
Mountainside
|
N.J.
|
50,824.73
|
|
Carrie Tingley Hospital
|
Albuquerque
|
N.M.
|
175,099.87
|
|
Blythdale Children's Hospital
|
Valhalla
|
N.Y.
|
58,513.52
|
|
Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron
|
Akron
|
Ohio
|
2,867,743.27
|
|
Children's Hospital Medical Center
|
Cincinnati
|
Ohio
|
9,172,262.38
|
|
Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital for
Rehabilitation
|
Cleveland
|
Ohio
|
25,395.16
|
|
Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital
|
Cleveland
|
Ohio
|
3,718,217.61
|
|
Children's Hospital
|
Columbus
|
Ohio
|
6,873,423.10
|
|
Children's Medical Center
|
Dayton
|
Ohio
|
2,525,448.12
|
|
Western Reserve Care System (Tod Children's
Hospital)
|
Youngstown
|
Ohio
|
1,186,780.12
|
|
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
|
Philadelphia
|
Pa.
|
18,340,479.96
|
|
Temple University Children’s Medical Center
|
Philadelphia
|
Pa.
|
405,256.06
|
|
Tenet Health System/St. Christopher's Hospital
for Children
|
Philadelphia
|
Pa.
|
5,257,740.36
|
|
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
|
Pittsburgh
|
Pa.
|
7,067,739.31
|
|
University Pediatric Hospital
|
San Juan
|
P.R.
|
1,669,959.70
|
|
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
|
Memphis
|
Tenn.
|
1,291,086.66
|
|
Driscoll Children's Hospital
|
Corpus Christi
|
Texas
|
1,574,153.41
|
|
Children's Medical Center of Dallas
|
Dallas
|
Texas
|
6,507,565.48
|
|
Cook Children's Medical Center
|
Fort Worth
|
Texas
|
114,356.49
|
|
Texas Children's Hospital
|
Houston
|
Texas
|
8,924,079.87
|
| CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Children's Hospital
|
San Antonio |
Texas
|
891,729.17
|
|
Intermountain Health Services/Primary Children's
Medical Center
|
Salt Lake City
|
Utah
|
4,314,448.21
|
|
Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters
|
Norfolk
|
Va.
|
2,501,554.40
|
|
Children's Hospital
|
Richmond
|
Va.
|
71,503.12
|
|
Children's Hospital & Regional Medical
Center
|
Seattle
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