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Adult care may not be the best fit for children’s needs. That’s why 51³Ô¹Ï Children’s collaborates with Thomas Jefferson University Hospital to offer specialized pediatric expertise and equipment in Center City Philadelphia.

Combining Jefferson Health's distinguished reputation and central location with 51³Ô¹Ï advanced pediatric care demonstrates our shared belief that kids do better when we work together.

What 51³Ô¹Ï Offers at This Location

51³Ô¹Ï pediatric specialists are available around-the-clock at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital for:

• Emergency Department (ED) care — Our pediatric specialists provide consultations for children and teens in the hospital’s ED, as needed. That means Jefferson Health's physicians consult with our pediatric specialists in order to give children the best possible care from doctors who treat kids every day.
• Newborn care — 51³Ô¹Ï pediatricians from 51³Ô¹Ï Children's Health, Philadelphia provide daily well-baby examinations for newborns at the hospital's family-friendly, mother baby unit.

51³Ô¹Ï neonatologist (newborn medicine specialists) also care for babies in the hospital's Level III Neonatal Inensive Care Unit (NICU). Level III means that we provide advanced care for premature, low birth weight and critically ill infants.

Additional Services

51³Ô¹Ï and Jefferson also work together to:

• Collaborate on important research studies
• Collaborate on pediatric programs that include input from multiple medical specialties for chronic or complex medical conditions
• Coordinate care, when needed, with our specialists at 51³Ô¹Ï Children's Health, Philadelphia and at 51³Ô¹Ï Children’s Hospital, Delaware in Wilmington, Del.
• Facilitate the transfer of extremely ill patients to 51³Ô¹Ï Children’s Hospital, Delaware
• Provide telehealth consults (specialty video consultations) in the emergency department at Jefferson Methodist Hospital, 2.5 miles away in South Philadelphia