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About Us
University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital has been dedicated to meeting the health care needs of children and families since 1919.
As Iowa’s only comprehensive children’s hospital, we provide care for children from birth to young adulthood.
Services range from promoting wellness to the care of general childhood illness, surgery, traumatic injuries, life-threatening and chronic illnesses, and developmental disabilities. As part of an academic medical center, UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital also performs groundbreaking research to help solve the mysteries of childhood diseases, in addition to training the next generation of health care professionals.
Iowa's only nationally ranked children's hospital
Our Philosophy
Patient and Family Centered Care
UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital is a leader in family-centered care, which includes the family as members of the multi-disciplinary care delivery team. Read more about our Patient and Family Centered Care.
Quality and Safety
We measure the quality of your care by how well we meet your expectations and the highest national standards of safety and effectiveness.
200+
pediatric physicians, surgeons, and dentists
All 99
Iowa counties served
190
Pediatric bed hospital
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