Beacon Children's Hospital

Welcome to Beacon Children's Hospital. As the region's only designated children's hospital, we welcome and treat children with a wide variety of medical and surgical diagnoses from more than 20 referral hospitals throughout Southwestern Michigan and Northern Indiana. Our world-class team includes pediatric hospitalists and intensivists, registered nurses, child life specialists, pediatric diabetic educators, pediatric dietitians, social workers, neonatologists, pediatric oncologists, respiratory therapists, clinical nurse specialists, pastoral care, and pediatric specialists in physical therapy, pulmonary medicine and infectious disease.

Specialties:
• Critical care medicine – intensive care
• Developmental-behavioral pediatrics
• General pediatrics
• Hematology-oncology – blood, cancer
• Neonatal-perinatal medicine – newborns

Care Delivery Programs
• Child life
• Developmental pediatrics
• Fetal medicine
• General pediatrics/wellness
• Genetics
• Home health care
• Medical transport unit
• Neonatal intensive care
• Pediatric intensive care unit
• Prenatal care
• Radiology/MRI/CAT
• Reconstructive surgery
• Rehabilitation/physical therapy
• School-based health
• Speech therapy

Community Outreach Programs
• Bicycle safety
• Child abuse prevention
• Child passenger safety
• Culturally specific programs/services
• Family resource center
• Health education
• Injury prevention
• Motor vehicle safety
• Nutrition and weight management
• Parenting classes
• Public insurance enrollment programs (Medicaid, SCHIP, Title V)
• Shaken baby syndrome prevention
• Tobacco and substance use prevention

Current Research Focuses
• Hematology/oncology – blood, cancer
• Neonatal-perinatal medicine – newborns

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