Nationwide Children's Hospital - Toledo acquired Mercy Health Children's Hospital on March 1, 2022. This gives children in the Toledo area broader local access to procedures and therapies, reducing the need to travel for treatment. Nationwide Children's Hospital continues the legacy and vision developed by Mercy Health Children's Hospital to provide high-quality, compassionate care, while enhancing clinical care to children in the Toledo area.

Nationwide Children's Hospital - Toledo continues the legacy and vision developed by Mercy Health Children's Hospital to provide high-quality, compassionate care, while enhancing clinical care to children in the Toledo area.

The foundation of an organization is its people. At Nationwide Children's Hospital, we believe Everything Matters, so we have aligned our strategy with the Best People and Best Programs to achieve the best outcomes. We also know diversity, combined with our authentic progress to build an inclusive culture, enables our employees to bring their unique differences and talents to work every day.

Nationwide Childrens Hospital supports and endorses the American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement on racisms impact on child and adolescent health, The Impact of Racism on Child and Adolescent Health.

Our vision is an inclusive and diverse culture that fosters mutual respect, where our staff and physicians are valued and provided opportunities to achieve their full potential. We recognize an inclusive and diverse culture is grounded in a firm commitment to attract and retain talent, reflective of the communities we serve. One way of accomplishing this goal is with our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).

Employee Resource Groups are teams of employees with common backgrounds, goals and interests, formed to act as a cultural resource for both group members and the entire organization. ERGs are typically associated with a culture or perspective that has traditionally faced challenges in the workplace. Some of the groups formed to support each other are working parents, veterans, ethnic and geographical backgrounds, and young career professionals.

Our resource groups promote professional development, peer networking and provide opportunities for participants to engage in the work of diversity and inclusion. The purpose is to positively impact the organizations culture in a manner that benefits participants and the organization.

At Nationwide Childrens Hospital, our vision remains unchanged. We aspire to create the best outcomes for children everywhere. This means families come to Nationwide Childrens from around the globe knowing they will get the highest quality care. It means we will reach to cure rare diseases. It means we will sequence a childs tumor to select the best care pathway. It means we will strive to make an entire population healthier, not just through their physical health, but also in their mental health. It means we will redefine the role of the childrens hospital in the achievement of optimal health.

Nationwide Childrens began in 1892 with nine beds and a commitment to care for every child in need. Today, with more than 65 sites and over one million patient visits per year, its still meeting that promise from Columbus to Cairo.

Nationwide Children's is America's Second Largest Pediatric Hospital with more than 1.5 million patient visits each year.Families travel from around the nation and around the globe to access life-saving treatments many unavailable anywhere else. We are 68 facilities extending out across Ohio and beyond. Here, we have the pediatric expertise every child needs. Here, the future health and potential of all children, is being shaped.

Nationwide Childrens Hospital is revealing the future of child health because its helping define it.Health care that is family-centered and child-focused. Accountable in quality and cost. Equating behavioral and mental health equally with physical health. And dedicated to translating our research discoveries into practice.

Our hospital made a promise to not only acknowledge, but foster and celebrate the diversity of each other, our patients, families, visitors, and many physician and community partners. Why? Because being inclusive and welcoming makes us better-suited to take care of those who need our help.

Collaboration is a critical part of Nationwide Children's Hospital strategy to improve the lives of children everywhere. Programs such as access to healthcare through schools, education of clinical teams, neighborhood safety and healthy home environments are all robust initiatives and cannot happen without strong partnerships.

We know it takes extensive resources to treat children locally, regionally and from all around the world. Our mission is best served when we work together with other organizations to help the future of our children and our own community.

We are proud to collaborate and lend our pediatric expertise to several childrens as well as adult hospitals in the state of Ohio and beyond. We work in partnership with Heart Services, Urology, emergency services and various NICUs in and around central Ohio. By coming together, we add to the power of knowledge and expertise of medical care for children all over the state.

Learning is a part of everything we do. Together, with our partners, our learning programs range from those that help patients and families understand their diagnoses and treatments, enhancing the skill and competence of current pediatric providers to training future generations of clinical and research experts.

Our partnerships are a defining piece of our culture at Nationwide Children's Hospital. Our collaborations lead to discoveries meant to help children worldwide, not limiting our reach to only one part of the state or country.

When you give to Nationwide Childrens Hospital, you change lives. Generous partners from across the country play an enormous part in enabling Nationwide Childrens to change the future of pediatric research and care. These supporters make stories of hope possible.

Achieving best outcomes for all children requires working with governmental leaders and community advocates at all levels local, state and national. So much of the health care conversation is focused on adults. And its often conducted by people who dont have front-line experience helping children. Its up to us, as members of the child health and well-being community, to stand up for those who need our care.

Construction continues on the Big Lots Behavioral Health Pavilion. Nationwide Children's Hospital prepares for a Topping off event to raise the last beam of the structure on Butterfly Gardens Drive. People from all over the country sent in words of support and strength to adorn the beam.

Dr. Jerry Mendell and his team developed a gene therapy to replace the mutated gene responsible for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) type 1. The team was recognized with Science Magazines - Peoples Choice, Breakthrough of the Year.

World renowned researchers, Dr. Richard Wilson and Dr. Elaine Mardis, are recruited to lead the Institute for Genomic Medicine, marking a transformational milestone. With their expertise and knowledge we will be able to better understand childhood diseases and how to treat those diseases.

A dedicated group of 12 central Ohio women came together and established Childrens Hospital with the mission to provide the best care for all children regardless of their family's ability to pay. The hospital opens for the admission of patients with nine beds, and quickly grows to 15. Nationwide Childrens Hospital resides in the same downtown setting where it was founded.

Nationwide Childrens Hospital is a destination academic pediatric medical center designed to manage the most complex of diseases. We treat the sickest of patients from across the country and around the world. We build research programs to assure tomorrows breakthroughs help children everywhere. And we train the next generation of physicians, scientists and health care professionals.

Beyond our walls, we invest in building social equity in our communities, address the social determinants of health, and develop payment models to better serve unique populations of children. Our unparalleled investment in Behavioral Health services and research further cements our role as an ambitious champion for the well-being of children everywhere.