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Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center

Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center is a 250-bed children's hospital in the Laurelhurst neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. It was founded as the seven-bed Children's Orthopedic Hospital in 1907 by Anna Herr Clise and was originally a ward of Seattle General Hospital. It moved to on Queen Anne Hill the next year.

In 1953, Children's moved to a new campus in Laurelhurst. Today, it is the home of the University of Washington's Department of Pediatrics. In 2004, U.S. News and World Report named it the #16 children's hospital in the country. Its pediatric oncology program is among the top three, and its pediatric residency program is ranked sixth.



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