Key Facts

(as of 09/21/2007)

Hospital Beds
Inpatient (430 after expansion)	396
Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit	18
PICU	45
Lehigh Valley Hospital	9
Cardiac Center	66
CICU	26
Cardiac Intermediate Care	20
Chronic Ventilator Unit (16 after expansion)	12
NICU	50
Preanesthesia/PACU Unit (46 after expansion)	39
Emergency Center (including urgent care observation)	92

Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Service Locations
Children's Hospital Main ORs (20 after expansion)	17
ORs in 3 Ambulatory Surgery Centers	6
Cardiac ORs (1 Hybrid OR/Cath Lab after expansion)	2
Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories	2
"Traveling" teams per day for the following locations:	2
Interventional Radiology, MRI, CT scan, NICU, Sedation Unit, Oncology Day Hospital, GI, Nuclear Medicine, HUP Radiation Therapy Lithotripsy, HUP ERCP, HUP PET Scan
"Traveling" cardiac anesthesia teams per day in all areas of the OR and Hospital and at 16 Affiliated Hospital NICUs.	2
The Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment (upon opening in 2008)
LDRPs	6
Obstetric ORs	2

Patient Volumes (Year ending June 2006)
	Cases/Year
Total	23,959
General Anesthesia Service	21,365
Fetal surgery	30-50
Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Service/Cardiac Center	~2,500
Open heart	550
Closed heart	443
Cardiology (diagnostic and interventional)	1,055
Fetal echocardiographic studies	~1,600
Outpatient visits	>18,000
Diagnostic studies	>42,000
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) program
Infants with severe respiratory failure since 1990	>250
Cardiac ECMO	~25/year
Trauma Program
Treated patients	~13,000
Admitted patients	~1,000
Pain Service
Patient Days on Service	7,400
Average Daily Census	20.3
Critical Care Medicine service
PICU (Main Hospital)	2,943
CICU (Main Hospital)	~3,600
PICU (Lehigh Valley Hospital)	~550

General Anesthesia Division; Jeffrey Feldman MD, Director
Anesthesiology faculty (includes Pain Service)	34
Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellows	12
Rotating Core Anesthesiology Residents	9
University of Pennsylvania	6
Temple University	2
Cooper University	1
CRNAs	12
CRNPs (conduct preanesthesia patient preparation and postanesthesia followup)	14
OR Anesthesia Technicians	16

Cardiac Anesthesia Division: Susan C. Nicolson, MD, Director & Associate Anesthesiologist-in-Chief
Anesthesiology Faculty	8
Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellows (4 to 5 per year in a six month Cardiac Anesthesia track)	3
CRNAs	2
CT Anesthesia Technicians	5

Critical Care Medicine Division: Mark A. Helfaer, MD, Director
Critical Care Medicine (CCM) Faculty	36
Fellows in a three-year program	16
PICU and CICU daily coverage - 4 teams consisting of Faculty, Fellows, Residents, Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, and an interdisciplinary team including RNs, Respiratory Therapists, Social workers, Child Life Specialists, Case Managers and Pediatric Pharmacists.
Critical Care provided in a 45 Bed Pediatric ICU, 26 Bed Cardiac ICU, 25 bed Cardiac Intermediate Care Unit, 16 bed Chronic Ventilator Unit (Main Hospital) and a 9 Bed Pediatric ICU (Lehigh Valley Hospital)

Graduate Medical Education and Departmental Didactic Program
CHOP
Pediatric Residents	136
Pediatric Specialty Fellows in 42 fellowship programs	230
Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship: Alan Jay Schwartz, MD, MSEd, Program Director
Fellows in a one or two-year program	12
Resident teaching conference Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 6:45-7:15 AM Fellows conference Tuesday (weekly), 6:30-7:15; Wednesday (1-2/month), 4:30-5:30 Grand Rounds, Research Conference and Departmental Teaching Conferences Thursday 6:30-8:00
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship: Wynne Morrison, MD, Program Director
Fellows in a three-year program	16
Daily Critical Care Medicine teaching conferences

Research Program

Ronald Litman, DO, Director, General Anesthesia Research: In Progress: 7 Clinical Projects; 6 Chart Reviews; 1 Case Study; 16 Completed Research Projects
David R Jobes, MD, Director Cardiac Anesthesia Research: In Progress: 2 Sponsored Clinical Research Projects, 5 Active Projects, 4 Projects in Development, 6 Completed Research Projects
Mark A Helfaer, MD Director, Critical Care Medicine Research : In progress: 22 Active Research Projects; 17 Projects in Development
Jeffrey H Silber, MD, PhD, Director, COR (Center for Outcomes Research ): 7 grants (6 NIH, 1 VA), $1,003,335/year
Robert M Nelson, MD, PhD, Director, CRI (Center for Research Integrity): 3 grants, (NIH/R21-$175,725, NSF-~$274,000 and NIH/K23-~$110,000)
PPRU (Pediatric Pharmacology Research Unit), 1 NIH grant, $365,028/year
NCRP (Neuorcardiac Research Program), 5 trials in process, $500,000/year
PPRU (Pediatric Pharmacology Research Unit), 1 NIH grant, $250,000/year

Research Staff: (Staffing Budget > $500,000)
Full-Time Research Operations Manger (Janice Prodell)	1
Full-time Research Coordinator	5
Full-Time Research Assistant	8
Part-Time Research Assistant	6
Summer Research Assistant	4
Work-Study Research Assistant	3
Volunteer Research Assistant	4

William J Greeley, MD, MBA, Director, Central Nervous System and Cardiopulmonary Bypass Core : 2 NIH grants, $1,000,000/year
Rita Valentino , PhD, Director, Pain and Stress Neurobiology Core: NIH and DOD grants, $2,100,000/year