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14 has an on-campus Healing Boutique, where cancer patients can obtain specialty cancer care products like compression therapy garments and radiation creams. ere is also a licensed cosmetologist on hand to assist with hair re- placement needs and custom wig fittings. Boston Children's Hospital. Boston Children's Hospital began as a 20-bed facility in Boston's south end. e hospital is now a 404-bed com- prehensive center for pediatric healthcare, which takes in approximately 25,000 inpatient admissions each year. Its approximately 200 specialized clinical programs schedule 557,000 visits annually. Last year, physicians at Bos- ton Children's Hospital performed more than 26,500 surgical procedures and 158,700 radio- logical examinations. For 2015-16, Boston Children's Hospital ranked No. 1 on U.S. News & World Report's Honor Roll for children's hospitals. In fact, the hospital was ranked No. 1 in the nation for seven specialties, including cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, neurology and neurosur- gery, and nephrology, among others. In 2014, Leapfrog Group named Boston Children's as a top children's hospital. e hospital has been recognized for excellence in nursing with a Magnet status by the American Nurses Cre- dentialing Center. Boston Children's has a long history of re- search and medical innovation. For example, in 1954, Boston Children's researcher John Enders, PhD, and his colleagues won the Nobel Prize for successfully culturing the polio virus, which made the creation of the Salk and Sabin vaccines possible. e hospital's research labo- ratories are now named for Dr. Enders. Today, the hospital is home to the world's largest research initiative based at a pediatric hospital. More than 1,100 scientists comprise the research community, nine of whom are members of the National Academy of Scienc- es, 11 of whom are members of the Institute of Medicine and nine of whom are members of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. e hospital's current research enterprises have garnered $225 million in funding annually, including more federal funding than any oth- er pediatric facility. Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston). In 1980, three of Boston's oldest and most es- teemed Harvard Medical School teaching hos- pitals — Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Robert Breck Brigham Hospital and the Boston Hos- pital for Women — merged to form Brigham and Women's Hospital. Later, in 1994, Brigham and Women's united with Massachusetts Gen- eral Hospital to form the nonprofit Partners HealthCare. Clinicians at the 779-bed Brigham and Women's Hospital performed 18,626 an- nual inpatient and 13,325 outpatient surgeries in the most recent year reported, and the hos- pital's emergency room recorded 62,098 visits. BWH is a training ground for physicians, nurs- es and allied health professionals. Brigham and Women's has 1,100 trainees and hosts Harvard Medical School students in rotations through- out its various programs. To prevent medica- tion errors, the hospital pioneered the devel- opment of computerized physician order entry in 2004, which has since become a nationally accepted safety practice. Since its inception, Brigham and Women's has upheld its inherited tradition of surgical ex- cellence, hosting a long list of firsts. In 1954, physicians completed the first successful hu- man organ transplant at the hospital when transferring a kidney between identical twins. e nation's first triple-organ transplant fol- lowed in 1995, with the first quadruple-organ transplant in 2000 and the nation's first full face transplant in 2011. BWH has been recognized for these accom- plishments and for general excellence. On its 2015-16 Honor Roll, U.S. News & World Report ranked Brigham and Women's as the No. 6 hos- pital in the nation. Carolinas Medical Center (Charlotte, N.C.). Carolinas Medical Center was founded in 1940 as Charlotte Memorial Hospital. e hospital has undergone several expansions and grown into the 874-bed general medi- cal and surgical facility it is today. Carolinas Medical Center is the region's largest research hospital and the only Level I trauma center. As one of five University of North Carolina teaching hospitals, Carolinas Medical Center is the flagship facility of Charlotte-based Car- olinas HealthCare System. CMC has received several points of recogni- tion and awards. e American Nurses Cre- dentialing Center recognized it with Magnet designation for nursing excellence. In 2013, the hospital was named one of Truven Health An- alytics' 100 Top Hospitals. Other recognitions include an Outstanding Achievement Award from the American College of Surgeons' Com- mission on Cancer, and in 2015-16, U.S. News & World Report ranked the hospital No. 1 in Charlotte's greater metropolitan area. Carolinas HealthCare System places significant value on patient satisfaction and quality of care. is commitment is tracked daily by hundreds of clinical professionals. As part of the national Hospital Engagement Networks, supported by CMS, the system prevented nearly 9,844 poten- tial patient safety events from January 2012 to August 2014. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles). Cedars-Sinai Medical Center began as two small organizations built by the Jewish community. One began in 1902 as a 12-bed operation in a two-sto- ry Victorian home, while the other got its start in 1918 as a two-room hospice. ey came together in 1961 and have since blossomed into an 886-bed internationally renowned hospital. Cedars-Sinai is the largest nonprofit hospital in the western U.S. and boasts a team of 2,100 physicians, 2,800 nurses and thousands of other healthcare professionals and staff. U.S. News & World Report recognized Cedars-Si- nai as the No. 2 hospital in California and the No. 1 hospital in the Los Angeles metro region for 2015-16. e hospital has been ac- knowledged by the National Research Corpo- ration's Consumer Choice Award 18 years in a row for providing the highest quality medical care in Los Angeles. e hospital also has the longest running Magnet designation for nurs- ing excellence in California. A generous 1976 donation from Frederick and Marcia Weisman, art collectors with personal ties to the hospital, permitted Cedars-Sinai to compile an extraordinary collection of sculp- tures, paintings, photographs and lithographs that now includes more than 4,000 pieces from art world icons like Andy Warhol, Pablo Pi- casso and Salvador Dalí. Nearly every piece of art is showcased, transforming the hospital's courtyards and walkways into cultural encoun- ters that can provide patients and families with meaningful and enlightening reprieves. Today, the hospital's Advisory Council for the Arts, comprised of fine art aficionados, continues the Weisman's mission and carefully reviews every artistic work offered to the medical center in hopes of enhancing the healing atmosphere. CHI St. Vincent Infirmary (Little Rock, Ark.). As the flagship hospital of CHI St. Vin- cent Health System, CHI St. Vincent Infirmary has provided the citizens of Arkansas with high quality healthcare for well over a century. CHI St. Vincent Infirmary began as a 10-bed "char- ity hospital" in 1888 by the bishop of Little Rock, five nuns, seven physicians and Catholic philanthropists Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hager. According to U.S. News & World Report, CHI St. Vincent Infirmary admitted 20,393 patients in the last year for which data is available. Cli- nicians there performed 8,251 inpatient and 5,737 outpatient surgeries in that year, and the hospital's emergency room had 35,386 visits. U.S. News & World Report ranked the hospital No. 1 in Arkansas in 2015-16. In January 2013, the hospital became the first and only hospital in Arkansas to earn recognition for excellence in nursing from the American Nurses Creden- tialing Center as a Magnet hospital. e Jack Stephens Heart Institute at CHI St. Vincent In- firmary is equipped with industry technology