We put our hearts into healthy futures

From well care to the most critical care, Advocate Children's Hospital offers only the best care for your kids – because every child deserves a happy and healthy life ahead. Find out what makes us the right choice for your family.

About Us

We're close to home

With locations across Chicagoland, we're one of the largest network providers of pediatric services in Illinois and among the top 10 in the country. Our two hospital locations are:

Park Ridge campus

Oak Lawn campus

You'll also find our pediatric care teams in almost 300 specialty clinics and sites of care across Chicagoland. View all locations

We’re committed to redefining care

Patients come from around the world to our internationally recognized Advocate Children's Heart Institute, one of the largest pediatric cardiovascular programs in the Midwest. We're also recognized for clinical excellence in:

  • Cancer
  • Cardiology and cardiovascular surgery
  • Center for Fetal Care / maternal fetal medicine
  • General Surgery
  • Neurosciences
  • Orthopedics
  • Pain management
  • Primary care

Advocate Children’s Hospital is part of Advocate Health. Learn more about Advocate Health and see our Year in Review Annual Reports:

2024 Year in Review Annual Report

2023 Year in Review Annual Report

We're a kid-focused team

Everything we do is designed to make you and your family feel supported and at home, from the highest level of specialized pediatric critical care to our kid-focused Advocate Children's Medical Group.

  • 677
    Pediatricians, board-certified pediatric specialists and subspecialists
  • 289
    Sites of care and specialty clinics in the Chicago area
  • 407
    Pediatric beds, including 169 Level III neonatal intensive care beds
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We offer more, together

Our pediatric outpatient center in Wilmette allows you to access additional specialists and programs through our partnership with Pediatrics at NorthShore University HealthSystem and the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital.

We're dedicated to doing our best

Advocate Children's Hospital has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of the Nation's Best Children's Hospitals for pediatric cardiology and heart surgery, and many physicians on staff here have been recognized as top doctors regionally and nationally in their field.

One of 12 world-class newborn intensive care units as identified by the National Vermont Oxford Your Ideal NICU Project

First children's hospital in the country to receive congenital heart disease accreditation from Accreditation for Cardiovascular Excellence (ACE) for setting the highest standards of quality care for children

Designated as a Pediatric Critical Care Center by the Illinois Department of Public Health

One of only eight U.S. hospitals certified as ChildKind by ChildKind International, which evaluates and recognizes health care facilities that have developed the highest standards in pediatric pain care

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