Your First Choice for Expert Second Opinions
Top-ranked, year after year
U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks CHOP among the nation’s best children’s hospitals, reflecting our clinical expertise, superior patient outcomes and access to breakthrough treatments that may not be offered at hospitals closer to home.
Leading experts, leading outcomes
Our clinical care focuses on delivering better outcomes for every child. Through our deep subspecialty expertise, multidisciplinary approach and bench-to-bedside model, we offer hope for families facing devastating diagnoses and difficult decisions.
Breakthrough care for the complex and rare
With one of the nation’s largest pediatric research programs driving breakthroughs in rare and complex conditions, our second opinions are informed by advanced diagnostics, novel therapies and life-changing treatments families can’t always access locally.
Fetal surgery for a pericardial teratoma
When a devasting diagnosis left a Tennessee family in search of answers, they turned to CHOP – the only hospital with the expertise and experience to remove a tumor from their own unborn baby’s heart.
More lives changed at CHOP
These short documentaries spotlight more families whose lives were transformed by our world-leading expertise and groundbreaking innovation.
Need a second opinion? We’re here.
If you are navigating a new diagnosis or looking for new treatment options, our pediatric specialists are always available to you or your child’s doctor to provide remote or onsite second opinions or consultations.