John R. Oishei Children's Hospital | |||||||||||
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Kaleida Health | |||||||||||
Geography | |||||||||||
Location | Buffalo, New York, United States | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 42°54′02″N 78°52′03″W / 42.900623°N 78.867444°W | ||||||||||
Organization | |||||||||||
Funding | Non-profit hospital | ||||||||||
Type | Specialist | ||||||||||
Affiliated university | Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences | ||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||
Emergency department | Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center | ||||||||||
Beds | 197[1] | ||||||||||
Speciality | Children's hospital | ||||||||||
Helipads | |||||||||||
Helipad | FAA LID: 1NY2 | ||||||||||
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History | |||||||||||
Construction started | 2014 | ||||||||||
Opened | November 10, 2017 | (replacing a hospital founded in 1892)||||||||||
Links | |||||||||||
Website | www | ||||||||||
Lists | Hospitals in New York State |
John R. Oishei Children's Hospital (OCH), sometimes known as simply Oishei Children's is a women's and children's hospital in Buffalo, New York, that opened on November 10, 2017, and provides pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults up to age 21,[2][3] and maternity services for expectant mothers.[4] It is located at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and has 185 inpatient beds.[5][6] It is a pediatric facility serving patients in Western New York and parts of Southern Ontario. The hospital is one of the only freestanding children's hospitals in New York State. OCH is a teaching hospital affiliated with the State University of New York at Buffalo[7] and is affiliated with the Kaleida Health System.
The hospital contains an ACS verified level 1 pediatric trauma center, one of the few in the region.[8][9] OCH also has a rooftop helipad to transport critically ill patients to and from the hospital.[10][11]
The hospital is named after the John R. Oishei Foundation, which donated $10 million for the development of the hospital.[12]