Children’s Hospital at Downstate
The Children’s Hospital at Downstate has a long history of leadership in pediatric care, education and research. Each year thousands of children are brought to the Children’s Hospital at Downstate. Through our ambulatory and community service programs, our pediatric emergency room and our extensive faculty of pediatric sub-specialists, our physicians are here to improve the health care and quality of life for Brooklyn children and their families.

The range of services available at the Children’s Hospital at Downstate encompasses virtually every pediatric sub-specialty. We provide the most sophisticated, state-of-the-art medical care available for Brooklyn children who suffer from acute or chronic medical and surgical problems. As faculty members of Brooklyn’s only medical school, our doctors take pride in their role as teachers of medical students, residents and fellows. These same faculty members serve as an important consulting and referral resource for our physician colleagues, pediatricians and other child health providers throughout Brooklyn.

If you would like to support this important work, please consider an online gift to the Pediatrics: Children's Hospital Fund.

To arrange an admission, refer a patient, or to obtain expert medical information, please contact one of our pediatric specialists at www.downstatekids.com.





Health and Education Alternatives for Teens (HEAT) Program
The Health and Education Alternatives for Teens (HEAT) Program, located at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and Kings County Hospital Center (KCHC) is the only Brooklyn-based comprehensive care program engaged in prevention, care and treatment initiatives for HIV-infected and at-risk youth aged 13 to 24. 
 
Since 1992, HEAT has provided age-appropriate and culturally competent care for heterosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender minority youth. HEAT provides comprehensive medical, case management, HIV counseling and testing (C/T), mental health care, treatment adherence, outreach, support services and access to research to high-risk and HIV-infected youth.

If you would like to support this important work, please consider an online gift to the Pediatrics: Children's Hospital Fund.





Pediatric Asthma Center of Excellence
In April, 1996, SUNY Downstate Medical Center created a comprehensive asthma clinic where patients, their families and the community can be evaluated, instructed in medication and management as well as become better educated about asthma triggers. Asthma is marked by recurrent attacks of wheezing, coughing, and/or shortness of breath.

The Pediatric Asthma Center of Excellence has long been at the forefront of asthma care and is committed to providing comprehensive care to patients of all ages, races, religious beliefs, socio-economic and educational levels.

Our multi-disciplinary health care team goals are:

• To reduce and prevent asthma symptoms, acute asthma attacks that require emergency room visits and hospitalizations.
• To provide patient and parent education.
• To provide additional access to care with our mobile asthma van.
• To provide professional and community education.
• To return stabilized patients to primary care management.
• To provide 24-hour a day emergency access to asthma management and treatment.

At the Pediatric Asthma Center of Excellence we help you to breathe and live normal lives.

If you would like to support this important work, please consider an online gift to the Pediatrics: Children's Hospital Fund.





Downstart Healthy Lifestyles Program
Obesity and poor nutritional habits are an epidemic in America. Over twenty percent (20%) of our children are overweight. One in three children in America are now overweight. Obesity is the #1 health threat in America. Overweight children and adolescents are more likely to become obese adults.

The Department of Pediatrics at SUNY Downstate established a hospital based healthy lifestyle program to encourage families to spend less time being sedentary and more time being active Our goal is to help kids, teens and their parents develop a healthier lifestyle and to become physically active. Children who have a body mass index more than 85% of children their age and their sex are eligible for Downstart.

An initial evaluation is made to assess the physical fitness of the child for the program and addresses any relevant medical concerns. Children are also screened by a psychologist for any emotional issues which may impede making lifestyle changes. The program consists of exercise, nutritional education and behavior modification to enable healthy lifestyle changes. The program encourages not only exercise but also other everyday activities such as walking and using the stairs instead of the elevator. Our support group discusses ways to stay focused on our goals – eating sensibly and becoming more physically active. The exercise sessions are held twice weekly, the nutrition and support group meetings are held once a week. For more information call 718-270-4714.

If you would like to support this important work, please consider an online gift to the Pediatrics: Children's Hospital Fund.






Pediatric Nephrology and Transplant Program
The Pediatric Nephrology program cares for children with nephrological problems of every degree of severity, including acute and chronic renal failure, acute and chronic hemo- and peritoneal dialysis with their complications, and kidney transplantation, with transplant-related medical issues. 
 
We provide the only pediatric kidney transplant service in the Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island region. In addition, our Division provides outreach to Staten Island and other neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens by providing private office or clinic coverage at St Vincent’s Medical Center (Staten Island), Jamaica Hospital Medical Center (Queens).

If you would like to support this important work, please consider an online giftto the Pediatrics: Children's Hospital Fund.





Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is dedicated to caring for high-risk neonates and is located only a few steps from the hospital's labor and delivery facilities. Downstate's NICU is the place where critically ill babies receive state-of-the-art intensive care that enables them to make remarkable recoveries.

SUNY Downstate Medical Center was designated by the New York State Department of Health as the Regional Perinatal Center for North/North Central Brooklyn. We were the first institution in Brooklyn to implement the Statewide Perinatal Data System (SPDS). SPDS provides public health and health care professionals around the state with timely and accurate data about birth outcomes.

If you would like to support this important work, please consider an online gift to the Pediatrics: Children's Hospital Fund.





Reach Out and Read
In 2006, The Children’s Hospital at Downstate initiated the nationwide literacy initiative, Reach Out and Read.
 
Children seen for well childcare visits receive an appropriate book from their physician to encourage the habit of reading at an early age.
 
Books are distributed to children 6 months to 5 years of age.

If you would like to support this important work, please consider an online gift to the Pediatrics: Children's Hospital Fund.