University of Iowa Children's Hospital is one of the most respected children's hospitals in the world. It is highly ranked nationally by many entities, including:
- Nationally ranked by U.S.News & World Report in 10 specialties (2012)
- Cancer (52)
- Cardiology and heart surgery (29)
- Diabetes and endocrinology (42)
- Gastroenterology (35)
- Neonatology (19)
- Nephrology (20)
- Neurology and neurosurgery (24)
- Orthopedics (18)
- Pulmonology (42)
- Urology (50)
- OptumHealth Care Solutions designated our neonatal intensive care (2009) and pediatric bone marrow transplant (2008) services as "Centers of Excellence"; the pediatric heart transplant program received Transplant Access Program designation (2008).
- The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation selected UI Children's Hospital as a Quality Care Award recipient (2009).
- We are the only hospital in Iowa accredited by the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Echocardiography Laboratories (ICAEL) for pediatric transthoracic, transesophageal, and fetal echocardiography.
- Designated by the Administration for Developmental Disabilities as Iowa's University Center of Excellence on Developmental Disabilities.
- We are the first hospital in United States to have NIH-funded center for research on anemia in newborn babies.
- First surviving baby below 400 grams in Iowa -13th in the world.
- 8-pound Iowa infant becomes one of world's smallest persons to receive liver transplant in procedure performed at UI Children's Hospital.
- First hospital in the world to implant a multichannel cochlear implant in a congenitally deaf child.
- Surgeons pioneer pediatric robotic surgery in 2002.
- 2008 Iowa chosen as site for long-term National Children's Study.
- 2009 UI Children's Hospital chosen for national pediatric brain injury study.
- 173,632 Total pediatric outpatient visits between 2008-2009.
- 1,142 child cardiac catheterization procedures between 2008-2009.
- The ETC is the only emergency room in eastern Iowa to staff board-certified pediatric specialists.