From humble beginnings as a day nursery in 1890, Akron Children's Hospital has evolved into the largest pediatric health care system in northeast Ohio, operating two freestanding pediatric hospitals and offering services at nearly 80 locations across the region. Our pediatric specialties draw half a million patients each year, and include children, teens and adults from all 50 states and around the world. Children's main campus in downtown Akron houses regional centers for genetics, fetal treatment, cancer and blood disorders, heart, palliative care, orthopedics, pediatric trauma, pediatric intensive care, and level III neonatal intensive care, among others. Children's is also one of only two pediatric hospitals in the country that operates a burn center for both adults and children.