Leslie Lopez-Aguilar

In August, 6-year-old Leslie Lopez-Aguilar arrived at CHKD emergency department, suffering the symptoms of Kidney failure. Soon though, it became clear that her illness was caused by something far more severe. Leslie had cancer, a form of leukemia. Doctors admitted her and began chemotherapy. During her treatment, Leslie has grown so sick that she has spent weeks at CHKD – 28 days straight at one point. Nonetheless, Leslie has remained cheerful throughout, and appears to be on the road to recovery thanks to the special care she has received at the hospital.

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CHKD Facts

• Virginia’s only free-standing, full-service pediatric hospital – treating children from birth through age 21 – and site of the state’s only dedicated pediatric emergency center.

• A not-for-profit hospital committed to quality medical care for all children. The hospital devotes more than 50 percent of its care to Medicaid patients. Many of its unique pediatric services address pressing public health needs that would otherwise go unmet.

• The regional pediatric referral center for southeastern Virginia, the Eastern Shore of Virginia and northeastern North Carolina – a service area of nearly 2 million people.  The hospital also treats children from across the United States and around the world.

• A health care facility and teaching hospital licensed for 212 beds.  Headquarters of Eastern Virginia Medical School’s Department of Pediatrics.

• Last fiscal year, there were 5,835 inpatient admissions, 143,000 outpatient specialty visits and 13,418 surgical cases. The Emergency Center handled 47,217 visits.

• CHKD’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit is the region’s largest and most experienced critical care facility for infants, children and adolescents suffering from acute, life-threatening illnesses. 

• The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at CHKD cares for the most critically ill newborns and is the largest and most sophisticated facility of its kind in the region.

• A specially trained Transport Team of nurses, respiratory therapists and paramedics experienced in the care and movement of critically ill children and newborns provides transport from area medical facilities in fully equipped mobile intensive care units. Last year, the team transported more than 1,000 children.

• The Transitional Care Unit at CHKD is one of the first programs in the nation developed to facilitate the move from hospital to home for technology-dependent children.
  
  
• The Children’s Rehabilitation Unit provides the region’s only inpatient facility for the diagnosis and treatment of children with severe disabilities.

Outpatient Service

• The CHKD Child Abuse Program provides comprehensive medical and psychosocial services for the diagnosis and treatment of victims of child abuse and neglect.  It helps coordinate investigation and intervention services of medicine, mental health, child protective services, law enforcement and prosecution.  More than 1,000 children are served annually.

• CHKD's Childhood Cancer Program operates one of the busiest outpatient specialty clinics with 14,281 patient visits last year.  Cancer care at CHKD encompasses children’s physical, emotional and educational needs and incorporates the whole family to help lessen the stress of coping with such a serious illness in a child.

• Community-based CHKD Health Centers – offering a variety of outpatient services, including primary care, specialty medical and surgical care and rehabilitative and diagnostic services – are located in Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Norfolk and Newport News.  CHKD recently opened the CHKD Health Center at Oakbrooke serves patients from Chesapeake and Northeastern North Carolina. The Virginia Beach and Newport News centers offer the region’s only dedicated pediatric ambulatory surgery centers.

• Children’s Specialty Group, a physician-owned, multi-disciplinary pediatric practice, provides treatment at CHKD for patients in dozens of pediatric sub-specialties.

• CHKD Surgical Group provides pediatric neurosurgery, urology as well as and pediatric general cardiac, orthopedic and plastic surgical services. Children made 36,258 visits to CHKD Surgical Group last year. Other surgical services available include: anesthesiology, craniofacial and genitourinary reconstruction, ophthalmology and otolaryngology.

• CHKD Medical Group provides physician management services for more than 100 pediatricians in 15 primary care pediatric practices throughout Hampton Roads and northeastern North Carolina. Children made almost 438,000 visits to the primary care pediatricians of CHKD Medical Group last year.

• The Children’s Health Line is a free service that helps locate a pediatrician or pediatric specialist for families, as well as information on parenting seminars and workshops.

Outpatient Service

In 1896, a group of community-spirited women formed the Norfolk City Union of The King’s Daughters to provide medical care for indigent mothers and their children.  They established a free clinic and visiting nurse service and in 1961 built The King’s Daughters’ Children’s Hospital, with 88 beds and a variety of services.  In 1979, the name was changed to Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters.  Today The King’s Daughters number approximately 1,000 and provide financial and volunteer support to CHKD.