University of Missouri Children's Hospital is mid-Missouri's largest and most comprehensive pediatric health-care facility dedicated exclusively to meeting the health-care needs of children. Children's Hospital is a member of University of Missouri Health Care in Columbia, Missouri.

MU Children's Hospital doctors provide care in more than 30 pediatric specialties including cancer and surgical specialties. Children's Hospital is located within University Hospital. It offers a sosphicated Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, an adolescent unit, a short-stay center, a general pediatrics unit, a patient playground and a school for children who are in the hospital for a long period of time. Children's Hospital offers the highest level of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (Level III) located with the Family Birth Center at Columbia Regional Hospital.

The Children's Hospital Transport Service is the only service of its kind outside of St. Louis and Kansas City. The service cares for children of all ages from premature infants to adolescents. The 17-member Children's Hospital transport team is composed of registered nurses, respiratory therapists, neonatologists and pediatric intensivists who are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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• MU health care