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Johns Hopkins Children's Center

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Children and families are at the heart of everything we do at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. For more than a century, we have served as the children’s hospital at Johns Hopkins, providing compassionate and comprehensive care that supports the individual child as well the entire family, whether you come from around the corner or across the globe. These services and information are designed to assist you while you are trusting us with your child’s well-being.

Visiting Hours

Visiting hours at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center are 9 a.m. – 9 p.m. daily.
Before your visit, please review our Care Partner and Visitor Policy.

 

Patient and Family-Centered Care

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Caring for children and their families forms the core of everything we do at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. Research shows that when parents are included as part of the hospital’s care team, they feel informed and empowered, and are better prepared to care for their child during and after the hospital stay. Mining the experience and knowledge of family members bolsters the health care encounter — all of which leads to better health outcomes for patients.

Founded in 2007, our Pediatric Family Advisory Council works closely with care providers and hospital staff members to create a patient- and family-centered experience. 

Learn about the Pediatric Family Advisory Council

  • Child Life

    Programs designed to help your child heal emotionally as well as physically.

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  • The Bloomberg Children’s Center

    Explore the Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children’s Center, where hope comes alive for children and families.

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  • Your Visit

    Everything you need to know while your child is being cared for at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.

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  • Locations

    Johns Hopkins Children's Center locations throughout Baltimore, Maryland, and the U.S.

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  • Our Services

    Our care extends beyond your child’s hospital stay. Discover how we can help your family beyond our walls.

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  • Insurance and Billing

    Our financial team is here to help.

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  • International Patients

    Services and support for those traveling from outside the U.S.

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Our Mission and Vision

The mission of Johns Hopkins Children’s Center is to provide patient- and family-centered care in a diverse and inclusive environment, to be a leader in innovative research that leads to prevention and effective treatment of childhood diseases, and to train the next generation of leaders in pediatric medicine.

By promoting a culture of patient- and family-centered care at the Children’s Center, and by providing resources and guidance to strengthen collaboration, communication and mutual respect between the health care team, patients and their families, the members of the Family Advisory Council believe the highest quality outcomes possible can be achieved.

Our Core Values

In the early days of developing an innovative new patient- and family-centered care initiative, we determined that its foundation needed core values or pillars from which we could build and grow activities and programs. In each new initiative, we try to incorporate these values. *Adopted from the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care.

Dignity and Respect: We believe that an essential component of patient- and family-centered care is listening to and honoring patients’ and families’ perspectives and choices. Therefore, we constantly strive to incorporate patient and family knowledge, values, beliefs and cultural background into the planning and delivery of care.

Participation: We encourage patients and families to participate in care and decision-making at the level they choose.

Information Sharing: Only through an authentic and transparent dialogue can patients and families effectively participate in care and decision-making. Therefore, we believe health care practitioners should communicate and share complete and unbiased information with patients and families in ways that are affirming and useful.

Collaboration: We invite patients, families, health care practitioners and hospital leaders to collaborate in policy and program development and implementation, and evaluation of programs ranging from health care facility design to professional education, as well the delivery of care.

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