A Regional Leader in Pediatric Specialty Care

Stony Brook Children’s Hospital is home to the most advanced

pediatric specialty care in the region. We offer a full range of

comprehensive medical services for infants, children and

young adults, providing leading-edge diagnosis, treatment and

management of childhood conditions, illnesses and injuries.

As an academic medical center we offer access to ground-

breaking — and often lifesaving — clinical trials. Stony Brook

Children’s is also a regional referral center for the smallest

babies, the sickest children and the most complex traumas.

This means that physicians and hospitals in the community send

their patients to us when they need the highest level of care.

Just as important, as a children’s hospital, we understand

that children need highly specialized services and specially

trained practitioners in a setting that reflects the unique

needs of children. The doctors, nurses and other experts at

Stony Brook understand what a child requires physically and

emotionally — through every developmental stage.

Highly Specialized Care for Children

Stony Brook Children’s is home to more than 160 pediatric

specialists, practicing in over 30 pediatric specialty fields.

Stony Brook Children’s has the expertise to provide the full

range of care for children — from offering well-baby care and

prevention services to treating minor illnesses and injuries to

performing complex surgery and pioneering protocols. Many

of our pediatric specialists have national reputations in either

clinical care or research or both, and have spent their lives

advancing the practice of children’s medicine.

A Patient- and Family-Centered Approach to Care

Children come first at Stony Brook Children’s, and parents

and other family members are key members of the care team.

Patient- and family-centered care is an approach we adopted

for several reasons; namely, because the family is vital to the

child’s healing process and research shows that increased

involvement of the patient’s family results in better outcomes.

We also have initiated the patient centered medical home

(PCMH) model of care in which the child’s primary care

provider — typically a pediatrician — becomes the point

person for all of the child’s medical care from well child visits

and community services to specialty care and hospitalization.

This results in coordinated and efficient care and avoids

fragmentation or overlap of services. The PCMH doctor can

maintain an accurate medical record and work with the child

and family over the long term to build a trusted relationship.

It also ensures that children get the right care at the right place

at the right time, overseen by the doctor who knows them best.

Fact Sheet

Stony Brook Children’s Highlights

• More than 160 pediatric specialists in over 30 pediatric specialties

• 106 pediatric beds including a 12-bed Pediatric IntensiveCare Unit (PICU) and a 10-bed inpatient Psychiatry Unit

• Serves as the Regional Perinatal Center, with a Level III 46-bed NICU — the first in New York State to feature all-private rooms

• More than 8,000 inpatient discharges annually (including newborns)

• A dedicated Pediatric Emergency Department open 24/7 and Level 1 pediatric trauma care

• More than 3,700 surgeries a year• Fully accredited by The Joint Commission• A member of the prestigious Children’s Hospital Association,

which is committed to advancing children’s health throughinnovation in the cost, quality and delivery of care.

• A member of the Children’s Oncology Group (COG), a network of the world’s childhood cancer experts

• The only hospital in Suffolk County that offers minimallyinvasive pediatric surgery

• A Pediatric Nephrology program that has been recognized as one of the top 50 programs nationally

• State-of-the-art imaging, along with low-dose protocolsand expertise that reduce radiation exposure

• One of only 113 nationally accredited Cystic Fibrosis Centers in the United States

• An expanded Hematologic Malignancy and Stem CellTransplant Team to treat patients with blood-related cancers and cancers of the lymphatic system

• A Pediatric Psychiatry Program that evaluates and caresfor patients both in the U.S. and internationally

• The only Suffolk County hospital to perform kidney transplants for children

• The only board-certified pediatric urologist on Long Island• A School Intervention and Re-Entry Program for

children with cancer and/or blood disorders that has become a national model

• An extensive Child Life Program staffed by certified Child Life Specialists to help children feel more comfortable while at the Hospital

• Lead agency in Suffolk County for the Suffolk County Safe Kids Coalition

• A Ronald McDonald Family Room, offering families of children undergoing medical treatment a place to rest and relax right at the hospital

Pediatric Specialties

• Adolescent Medicine• Pediatric Allergy and Immunology• Pediatric Anesthesiology• Pediatric Autism and Developmental Disabilities• Pediatric Cardiology• Child Advocacy• Pediatric Critical Care Medicine• Pediatric Dentistry• Pediatric Dermatology• Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics• Pediatric Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT)• Pediatric Emergency Medicine• Pediatric Endocrinology• Pediatric Gastroenterology• Pediatric Genetics• Pediatric Hematology/Oncology• Pediatric Hospitalist Medicine• Pediatric Infectious Diseases• Neonatology• Pediatric Nephrology• Pediatric Neuro-Oncology• Pediatric Neurology• Pediatric Neurosurgery• Pediatric Ophthalmology• Pediatric Oral Surgery• Pediatric Orthopedics• Pediatric Pathology• Pediatric Plastic Surgery• Pediatric Primary Care• Child Psychiatry• Pediatric Pulmonology/Cystic Fibrosis• Pediatric Radiation Oncology• Pediatric Radiology• Pediatric Rheumatology• Pediatric Surgery• Pediatric Urology

One-of-a-Kind Programs and Centers of Excellence

Stony Brook Children’s has earned a national reputation for excellence in many of our pediatric and adolescent healthcare programs. Some of our one-of-a-kind programsand centers of excellence are: • Apnea Monitoring Program• Celiac and Gluten Sensitivity Center• Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program (CPEP)

• Cystic Fibrosis Center• Dentistry for the Developmentally Disabled• Healthy Weight & Wellness Center• High-Risk Clinic for babies discharged from the NICU• Infant Pulmonary Function Testing (iPFT)• The Lourie Center for Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis (MS)• Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Center• Metabolic Disease Treatment Center• Minimally Invasive Pediatric Surgery• Pediatric AIDS Center• Pediatric Renal Transplantation Program • Pediatric Sleep Disorders Center• Sickle Cell Disease Center

Training the Next Generation of Children’s Doctors

As an academic medical center and a teaching hospital,

Stony Brook Children’s is training the next generation of

leaders in pediatric medicine. Students from Stony Brook

University School of Medicine, as well as doctors in our

residency and fellowship programs, can participate in a

pediatrics residency program, a child neurology training

program and a combined medicine-pediatrics program. We

also offer five fellowship programs in pediatric specialties,

with more to be added soon.

Stony Brook’s residents are trained to provide high-quality

patient care by our experienced faculty who are dedicated

to teaching. Our residents graduate with a strong general

pediatrics foundation achieved through their role on

multidisciplinary patient-centered care teams, representa-

tion on critical hospital and residency committees, research

endeavors, and quality improvement initiatives. A large

majority of Stony Brook pediatrics graduates are practicing

physicians at both our academic medical center and in our

local community.

Advancing Children’s Medicine Through Research

Stony Brook Children’s advances the study and practice

of pediatric medicine. We are the only continuously

National Institutes of Health-funded pediatric and

obstetric site providing HIV/AIDS clinical trials in Suffolk

County since 1992. We also have groundbreaking

studies on protecting children’s hearts through the

Pediatric Preventive Cardiovascular Risk Program.

Some of the research currently being conducted

at Stony Brook that may change the shape of

children’s medicine includes:

• Identification of genes associated with autism• Integration of neural stimuli to regulate

gene expression in the nervous system• Development of new therapies for inborn errors

of metabolism• Looking at the relationship between oxygen levels,

inflammation and treatments in premature infants

• Developing and evaluating noninvasive ventilation techniques for the most fragile premature newborn lungs

• Use of rhIGF-1 for the treatment of cystic fibrosis in infants

• Molecular analyses of Epstein-Barr virus and implications for associated cancers

• Evaluation of the late effects of cancer treatments on childhood cancer survivors

• Conducting NIH sponsored clinical trials in pediatric steroid resistant nephrotic syndrome

• Examining neuropsychiatric manifestations of gluten intolerance in children with celiac disease

• Understanding the Gut Microbiome in Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome

• Designing a multi-faceted technology-based intervention to support weight management among obese children

• Differentiation of GERD from eosinophilic esophagitis• Developing and evaluating metrics to assess

insurance retention among children• Evaluating the impact of an enriched medical

home intervention on child health outcomes• Creating a family psychosocial risk assessment tool

for use in clinical practice• Cardiac Ultrasound trainer development and use

as a teaching tool• Use of simulation to improve graduate

medical education• Collaboration with international consortia on pediatric

kidney diseases including several multi-center studies

These and other studies are funded by awards from the

National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention (CDC) and other granting agencies

to our research faculty.

In 2014, Stony Brook Medicine broke ground on a 150-bed Hospital Pavilion that will be the new home of Stony Brook Children’s.

This expansion is meaningful on many levels: First, it allows for the hospital to grow as the needs of Suffolk County’s children

change. It is a magnet for best-in-field pediatric physician-scientists, who feel they work best in a state-of-the-art environment with

the most advanced technology. It will provide children and families a safe, beautiful and child-centric environment — complete

with multiple playrooms, a live video feed from the Aquarium, an outdoor garden, classrooms and more — in which to heal. And,

most important, it has been designed for the optimum delivery of care at the bedside, with everything from in-room computers for

charting and electronic safety systems to family zones and videos with age-appropriate education information on specific diagnoses.

New Building, New Era for Stony Brook Children’s

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Locations

Stony Brook Children’s provides care at two main locations on the Stony Brook Campus, and seven outpatient facilities conveniently located throughout the community.

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101 Nicolls RoadStony Brook, NY 11794

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About Stony Brook Medicine

Stony Brook Medicine integrates and elevates all of Stony Brook University’s health-related initiatives: education, research and patient care. It includes five Health Sciences schools — Dental Medicine, Health Technology and Management, Medicine, Nursing and Social Welfare — as well as Stony BrookUniversity Hospital and 50 community-based healthcare settings throughout Suffolk County.

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