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Children's of Mississippi - 5C

As Mississippi’s only children’s hospital, we care for kids from across the state, offering everything from emergency care to highly specialized heart and cancer care for kids. We treat about 150,000 children each year in more than 30 specialty areas, including newborn medicine, pediatric cardiology, neurology, and surgery. The hospital houses the state’s only pediatric intensive care unit and emergency department along with Mississippi's only pediatric treatment programs for cancer, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, congenital heart defects, and more.

Children's Cancer Clinic

The Children's of Mississippi Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders offers the only clinic in Mississippi dedicated to the care of children with cancer of blood disorders. The state's only bone marrow transplant unit offers hope for many children with cancer, sickle cell, or other diseases. In addition to bone marrow transplant patients, faculty and staff follow children, adolescents and young adults with any cancer, and about 800 children, adolescents and young adults with sickle cell disease.

Children's Cancer Clinic

The Children’s of Mississippi Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders offers the only clinic in Mississippi dedicated to the care of children with cancer of blood disorders. The state’s only bone marrow transplant unit offers hope for many children with cancer, sickle cell, or other diseases. In addition to bone marrow transplant patients, faculty and staff follow children, adolescents and young adults with any cancer, and about 800 children, adolescents and young adults with sickle cell disease.

Children's Emergency Department

Children's Emergency Services, the emergency medicine program at Children's of Mississippi, assesses and treats children ages 18 and under who are acutely ill or injured. Our children's emergency services, including the Col. Harland Sanders Children's Emergency Department and the Selby and Richard McRae Children's Trauma Unit, are staffed by physicians board certified in pediatrics, emergency medicine, and/or pediatric emergency medicine. Pediatric subspecialists are available for consultation. As the only children's hospital in Mississippi, we have a diverse patient population with a wide range of patient care experiences.

Children's of Mississippi PICU

Our busy medical/surgical Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit have approximately 1,600 admissions per year and over 400 cardiac surgical cases per year. In addition, we have a very active ECMO program including provision of ECMO support for pediatric cardiac, neonatal respiratory, pediatric and adult respiratory and cardiac failure patients.

Children's of Mississippi PICU

Our busy medical/surgical Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit have approximately 1,600 admissions per year and over 400 cardiac surgical cases per year. In addition, we have a very active ECMO program including provision of ECMO support for pediatric cardiac, neonatal respiratory, pediatric and adult respiratory and cardiac failure patients.

Children's of Mississippi NICU

The NICU at Children's of Mississippi Hospital, the only Level IV NICU in the state of Mississippi, is staffed by 14 neonatologists, 26 NNPs and three hospitalists. The service has a strong basic science research lab with funded research in the field of brain injury and NEC. We participate in the Vermont Oxford Network and have an established ground and air neonatal transport team and offer high frequency ventilation, inhaled nitric oxide, brain cooling and ECMO.