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Health, Healing, and Hope

As Virginia’s only freestanding, full-service children’s hospital, every inch of our facility and all members of our medical team are devoted exclusively to the needs of children.

Main Hospital Care

8th floor hallway

Inpatient Care Units

Our 206-bed teaching hospital is home to the region's largest and most sophisticated neonatal and pediatric intensive care units, an acute rehabilitation unit, a neuroscience unit, and an oncology unit as well as a general care unit.

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Your Child's Stay

At CHKD, we understand how stressful it can be if your child needs to be hospitalized. Here, we've compiled a list of questions your child may ask and what you may want to bring with you to the hospital.

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Visitor Information and Hours

Visitation rules at CHKD are based on patient safety, and may be subject to change based on special circumstances. Your child's nurses will work with you to identify the visitors you want to allow. To foster an atmosphere of healing, we expect civil behavior from all visitors.

Child life staff at CHKD working on a puzzle with a patient in the playroom.

Integrative Care Team

Being sick or hospitalized is difficult for children. In addition to the physical discomfort of illness, they may feel frightened, confused, and overwhelmed. In essence, kids need more than medicine to get well. Our integrative care team works with patients and families to help children feel more comfortable and more in control of their hospital stay.

Pediatric ambulance outside CHKD Emergency Entrance.

Emergency Care

CHKD's Emergency Center is home to the first and only Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center in Hampton Roads, offering the highest level of care available to trauma patients under the age of 15. Our comprehensive team of pediatric emergency medicine specialists are ready to care for the unique needs of children 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.