INDIANA'S ONLY COMPREHENSIVE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
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Riley Hospital for Children is Indiana's only comprehensive children's hospital, with pediatric specialists in every field of medicine and surgery. Riley is committed to providing the highest quality health care to children in a compassionate, family-centered environment. Riley is a national leader in cutting-edge research and medical education, ensuring health care excellence for children for generations to come. Riley provides medical care to all Indiana children, regardless of a family's ability to pay.
2006 Profile For Riley Hospital for Children
And Riley Hospital for Children at Methodist Hospital
PATIENTS
Staffed Beds 350
Admissions and Observation Cases 11,013
Total Outpatient Visits 221,072
Air/Ground Transports from Referring Hospitals 1,514
Inpatients and Outpatients Surgeries 13,888 (including 1,000 minimally invasive and 400 neonatal surgical procedures)
Statewide Inpatients and Outpatient Sites Operated by Riley 18
STAFF
Full Time Staff 2,000
Medical Staff 375
PROGRAMS AND FACILITIES
- Indiana's first pediatric emergency department
- Indiana's only pediatric burn center
- Indiana's most comprehensive neonatal unit, including its most experienced ECMO program
- One of the nation's three largest autism treatment centers
- Part of Indiana University's National Institutes of Health-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Indiana's only pediatric dialysis program
- Indiana's only dedicated pediatric inpatient unit for cardiovascular care, the Riley Heart Center
- One of the nation's largest and most comprehensive outpatient care facilities for children
- World's largest pediatric sleep disorders center
- Indiana's largest and most comprehensive pediatric intensive care unit
- Offers one of the nation's largest pediatric residency programs and is the only training site in Indiana for pediatric specialists
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
- Riley Community Education and Child Advocacy helps families to prevent injuries to all children, including children with special needs, with child safety products and education through two first-in-the-nation programs, the Safety Store and Safe Escape Program
- Riley provides Indiana's largest number of continuing education programs for physicians and other health care professionals
- Riley physicians staff the neonatal units at six community hospitals around Indiana
National Prominence
- Ranked among the nation's top 11 children's hospitals by Child magazine. In addition, Riley's pulmonary and neonatal intensive care programs ranked among the top 10 programs in the U.S. by Child magazine.
- Clarian Health has been ranked among the nation's top hospitals for nine consecutive years by U.S.News & World Report.
- All of the Indiana pediatricians listed in America's Top Doctors, a national consumer publication, have Riley-based practices
NATIONAL PROMINENCE 
- Ranked among the nation's top 11 children's hospitals by Child magazine. In addition, Riley's pulmonary and neonatal intensive care programs ranked among the top 10 programs in the U.S. by Child magazine.
- Clarian Health has been ranked among the nation's top hospitals for nine consecutive years by U.S.News & World Report.
- All of the Indiana pediatricians listed in America's Top Doctors, a national consumer publication, have Riley-based practices
1903
- Indiana University School of Medicine is founded
1921
- The Riley Memorial Association, now the Riley Children's Foundations, is founded with the goal of building a children's hospital in memory of Hoosier Poet James Whitcomb Riley
1924
- Riley Hospital for Children opens
1935
- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt attends the dedication of the hydrotheraputic pool for children with polio
1950
- The Riley Research Building opens as an addition to the Riley Hospital for Children campus
1951
- Indiana's first pediatric cardiac catheterization laboratory opens at Riley
1956
- Indiana's first pediatric open heart procedure is performed at Riley
1962
- Riley becomes the first hospital in the nation to perform percutaneous cardiac catheterization (a minimally invasive diagnostic and treatment procedure) in children
1966
- Riley Hospital for Children becomes the first hospital in Indiana, and one of the first in the nation, to utilize echocardiography to diagnose congenital heart defects
1971
- Indiana's first and only pediatric burn center opens at Riley
- Indiana's first neonatal intensive care unit opens at Riley
- The Parent Care Unit opens at Riley Hospital for Children with open visitation, participation and in-room sleeping accommodations for parents, creating a national model for family-centered care
1975
- The first staged Fontan procedure in Indiana is performed at Riley. The surgery keeps oxygenated blood and deoxygenated blood from mixing in the heart
1980
- Riley becomes the first hospital in Indiana to provide outpatient surgical care for children
1983
- Indiana's first pediatric cochlear implant procedure (to correct deafness) is performed at Riley
1986
- Indiana's first ECMO procedure (a form of heart-lung bypass for critically ill infants and children) is performed at Riley
1988
- Indiana's first pediatric liver transplant is performed at Riley
1989
- Indiana's first infant and newborn heart transplants are performed at Riley
1991
- The Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research opens at Riley Hospital for Children
1994
- Indiana's first and only pediatric cancer center, including the state's only stem cell transplant unit, opens at Riley
- Indiana's first pediatric cord blood transplant is performed at Riley
1997
- Riley Hospital for Children joins Indiana University Hospital and Methodist Hospital to form Clarian Health Partners
1997-2006
- Clarian Health Partners is listed among the nation's best hospitals by US News and World Report magazine for nine consecutive years
2000
- The Riley Outpatient Center opens as the nation's largest ambulatory care center for children
2001
- The Riley Sleep Disorders Center opens as the largest pediatric sleep lab in the world
2002
- Indiana's only dedicated unit for children with heart defects, the Riley Heart Center, opens
- Riley is one of just 19 hospitals in the country selected to perform Phase I pediatric cancer research protocols
- One of the nation's three largest autism centers, the Christian Sarkine Autism Treatment Center, opens at Riley
2003
- First intestinal and multi-organ transplants in Indiana performed at Riley
- First hospital in the Eastern United States and only one of two in the U.S. to receive special government permission to use and implant the Berlin Heart, a ventricular assist device. The Berlin Heart is a new way to treat complex cardiac problems
- First time Riley surgeons use Repiphysis, a prosthetic implanted in an arm or leg
- First hospital in Indiana to perform a pulmonary autograft mitral valve replacement, a revolutionary procedure to replace the mitral valve
2004
- Family as Faculty program, part of the Family-Centered Care Program, launched at Riley Hospital for Children
- Riley formalizes partnership with Deaconess Hospital in Evansville
- Riley celebrates 80th birthday
- Riley ranked as one of America's best children's hospitals according to Child Magazine
- Riley Launches Riley Connections - A Telemedicine Program, allowing Riley physicians to consult with out-of-town physicians and patients
2005
- Riley announces its $500 million, 10-year plan
- Riley Hospital for Children at Clarian North Medical Center opens
- Phase V patient tower work begins
- Riley NICU is recognized as among the best five in the nation, according to Child magazine
2006
- Child magazine ranked Riley Hospital 11th in the nation overall out of nearly 250 children's hospitals. The magazine also ranked the hospital's neonatal and pulmonary departments in the top 10.
- The Riley Children's Foundation received a $10 million gift from the Eli Lilly and Company Foundation that will be used to help establish a world-class pediatric diabetes treatment and care program at Riley Hospital for Children.
- Riley Hospital for Children at Clarian North opened the Center for Children's Cancer and Blood Diseases. The center provides hematology/
oncology services to patients and families.
- Riley is the first hospital in Indiana and among a few hospitals in the nation to use the Vertical Expandable Prosthetic Titanium Rib (VEPTR). The VEPTR is a curved, telescoping titanium device that's attached to the ribs and/or the spine to straighten and separate them so that the lungs develop properly.
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