Johns Hopkins Medicine provides pediatric cancer care through the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore and Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla. Founded in 1912 as the birthplace of academic pediatrics in the U.S., Johns Hopkins Children’s Center today offers one of the most comprehensive pediatric medical programs in the country, with more than 65,000 patient visits and nearly 9,000 admissions each year. It is Maryland’s largest children’s hospital, with 209 beds and recognized centers of excellence across dozens of pediatric subspecialties, including oncology. At Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center’s division of pediatric oncology operates dedicated inpatient and outpatient facilities, housed in The Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children’s Center building that opened in 2012, and staffed by specialists and subspecialists in childhood cancers. Johns Hopkins Children’s Center ranks No. 17 in the nation for pediatric cancer and No. 1 overall in Maryland on U.S. News & World Report‘s “Best Children’s Hospitals” list for 205-26. Johns Hopkins recently launched the Johns Hopkins Pediatric Radiation Oncology Research Center, backed by a $40 million investment, to improve treatment for pediatric brain tumors.
