About Dartmouth Health Children’s
As New Hampshire’s only comprehensive, full-service children’s hospital, Dartmouth Health Children’s provides an extended system of care that offers advanced pediatric services.Dartmouth Health Children’s was recognized in 1992 as a “children’s hospital within a hospital” by the Children’s Hospital Association. Dartmouth Health Children’s is one of 205 children’s hospitals in the United States providing care specifically focused on children.
For more information about our approach to children’s health care, see our Health Care Services section.
Special services
- 28 bed integrated Pediatric and Intensive Care Unit
- 30 bed Intensive Care Nursery (ICN)
- 30 specialty clinics, including general pediatric consultative clinic and primary care center
- Dartmouth Health Children’s Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Center
- Dartmouth Health Children’s Regional Education Program
- Child Advocacy and Protection Center
- Child Life Program
- David’s House – a private, nonprofit support to Dartmouth Health Children’s families
- Emergency neonatal and pediatric transport system
- Full pediatric diagnostic services
- Hood Center for Family Support
- Injury Prevention Center
- NH Poison Information Center
- Regional pediatric subspecialty services
- W.E. Boyle Community Pediatrics Program
Working at Dartmouth Health Children’s
Devotion to our employees and patients
Using shared governance, we ensure that each employee has a voice and the power to effect change at Dartmouth Health Children’s. We provide opportunities for pioneering research and are committed to the population we serve.
Competitive compensation
Our salaries are equitable and compete easily with those of urban medical centers. Our outstanding benefits program offers comprehensive medical, dental, life, and disability coverage.
Learning opportunities
We encourage our health care professionals to further their knowledge through tuition reimbursement, conferences, grand rounds, and other training programs.
A diverse employee population
At Dartmouth Health Children’s, we know that diversity benefits our patients, families, visitors, and the community at large. We are an Equal Employment-Affirmative Action employer. Employees and applicants shall be afforded equal opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, political affiliation, sexual orientation, or military status.
Benefits
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Clinics offers a total compensation package that includes competitive health and welfare benefits. These benefits consist of “Core Benefits” that are provided by Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Clinics as well as “Benefit Choices,” allowing you to select additional benefits to meet your personal situation and needs.
Nursing Specialties
Nationally accredited as a “children’s hospital within a hospital,” Dartmouth Health Children’s serves as the regional center for children’s health care. With specialists in more than 30 areas of pediatric medicine, Dartmouth Health Children’s provides outstanding family-centered care.
From comprehensive and multidisciplinary clinics to a state-of-the-art PICU and level III NICU, Dartmouth Health Children’s offers exciting opportunities for competent and compassionate nurses. Dartmouth Health Children’s received its accreditation from the Children’s Hospital Association in 1992.
Dartmouth Health Children’s nursing specialties
- PainFree Program
Dartmouth Health Children’s acclaimed PainFree Program is a multispecialty clinical service available to all pediatric patients. - Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
Our world class Intensive Care Nursery (ICN) serves the needs of level I through level III infant patients including; premature, sick newborns, and those with cardiac, surgical, neurological, and metabolic disease. - Pediatric/Adolescent/Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Provides exceptional family-centered care to patients needing an array of medical and surgical services including neurosurgery, pediatric surgery, plastic surgery, oncology, and cardiology.