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Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center (CHRMC)

http://www.seattlechildrens.org/default.asp

Founded in 1907 as the Children’s Orthopedic Hospital, CHRMC, has become one of the premier children’s health care facilities in the United States. Child magazine recently named CHRMC, a 220 bed center, one of the top three children’s hospitals in the country.s

As both a community hospital for greater Seattle and the pediatric referral center for the Pacific Northwest, Children's Hospital provides, directly or in partnership with others, excellent pediatric care, education and research programs (with the University of Washington). Children's Hospital is an advocate on behalf of health care needs for children at local, state and national levels.

The neurosurgery service at CHRMC supervises the multidisciplinary care and treatment of pediatric brain tumors, craniofacial abnormalities, developmental disorders of spine, and hydrocephalus. Due to its international reputation, patients from around the world are referred to CHRMC for surgical treatment of congenital defects, craniosynostosis, brain tumors and scoliosis.

For more information about Children's Hospital Neurosurgery section link to: http://neurosurgery.seattlechildrens.org/home/

CHRMC is a partner in the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance which combines the clinical and research capabilities of the University Medical Center http://www.washington.edu/medicine/uwmc/ with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center http://www.fhcrc.org/ .

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