This 183-bed hospital provides a wide range of pediatric medical and surgical specialties through its affiliation with Drexel University College of Medicine(TM). It includes major centers of clinical excellence in organ transplantation (heart, liver and kidney), neonatal intensive care, burn treatment, cystic fibrosis and pulmonary disease, cardiology, dialysis, neurosciences, ambulatory surgery; emergency medicine; cleft lip and palate, craniofacial surgery, dentistry, child psychiatry, radiology and laboratory medicine.

Here's a brief glance at some of our vital statistics:

• Beds: 183 licensed beds
• Rooms: 44 single rooms, 33 double rooms
• Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: 30 beds
• Transplant/Oncology Unit: 7 beds
• Cardiac Care Unit: 8 beds
• Intensive Care Unit: 8 beds
• Special Care Unit: 12 beds
• Operating Rooms: 6 operating rooms, 9 recovery rooms
• Short Procedure Unit: 10 beds
• Burn Center: 5 beds
• Emergency Department: 20 examining rooms

Features

• Helipad
• Private bath in each patient room
• In-room hide-a-beds for parents
• Overnight accommodations for out-of-town parents
• Child Life areas on each patient floor and in each special care unit
• 1,030 cars can park in our 6-level park and lock indoor garage and our surface parking lot.
• Handicap and hi-top van accessible.
• Two operating rooms designed specifically for transplant surgery
• Language interpreters and sign language interpreters available

Cafeteria Hours
The cafeteria at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children is located in the lower level of the hospital.

In addition, there is a vending machine area located across from the cafeteria which contains a change machine and microwave oven.

The cafeteria hours are:

• Breakfast: 7 to 9:30 a.m. (7:30 to 9:30 a.m. on weekends, continental breakfast only)
• Lunch: 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. on weekends)
• Dinner: 4 to 6:30 p.m. (4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on weekends)
• Night Service: 10:30 p.m. to 2 a.m.

You may call the "Menu Hotline" at 215-427-5862 to hear the daily specials.

Gift Shop
Located in the hospital's main lobby, the Gift Shop offers a large selection of personal and gift items, cards, crafts, toys and games, books and magazines, snacks and stamps. It is open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and weekends from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.