HEALTH & FITNESS
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
By Shannon Ballew
sballew@mdjonline.com
Cobb County children are
not far from specialized pediatric
services through Children’s
Healthcare of Atlanta.
CHOA has Cobb locations
in Smyrna and Kennesaw
offering services including
urgent care, radiology and
lab services, endocrinology,
general surgery, orthotics and
prosthetics, pulminology,
sleep, speech-language pathology,
sports medicine and
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physical therapy.
One of Children’s most
visible landmarks is Hope and
Will’s Sandlot at Truist Park,
a large kids play area with a
batting cage, interactive games
and a zip line and climbing
tower.
The nonprofit healthcare
group was ranked highly in
multiple specialties among the
nation’s top pediatric hospitals
for 2020-21 by U.S. News &
World Report’s Best Children’s
Hospitals list.
Children’s had four specialties
ranked in the top 10:
No. 7 in pediatric cancer, No.
8 in two categories, pediatric
gastroentronology and
GI surgery, and pediatric
nephrology, and No. 10 in
pediatric orthopedics. Another
four categories were in the
top 20: No. 11 in neonatology,
No. 12 in pediatric neurology
and neurosurgery, No. 17 in
pediatric pulmonology and
lung surgery and No. 19 in
pediatric urology.
The report ranks hospitals
for excellence in outcomes,
program structure and national
reputation in 10 pediatric
specialty areas — with the
survey questions created and
refined by content experts in
each field. Children’s ranked
in each of the 10 specialty
areas.
“At Children’s, our
high-quality specialized pediatric
care is what sets us apart,”
Children’s President and CEO
Donna Hyland said in a news
release. “We are incredibly
proud of our physicians and
staff who show up every day
to fulfill our mission to make
kids better today and healthier
tomorrow. This is an exciting
national accomplishment —
made possible by our dedicated
care teams — that reflects
the excellence that Children’s
is known for in Georgia and
beyond.”
CHOA is also Atlanta United’s
official pediatric health
care system, and the soccer
team’s training headquarters
in Marietta is named for the
medical group.
In 2019, Children’s Cobb
locations had:
More than 10,000 visits to
sports physical therapy gyms
More than 31,000 urgent
care visits in Kennesaw
More than 117,000 visits
from Cobb County families to
a Children’s facility
Children’s employs 319 people
from Cobb County.
For more information, visit
www.choa.org.
From left, David Deutchman, a Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta volunteer
who’s nicknamed the NICU Grandpa because he comforts premature babies
in the neonatal intensive care unit, meets Channing Milyo and her mother,
Carly Grace Milyo, at the event. Channing Milyo was born as a premature
baby. - Special Photo
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