If you've ever been inside one, you know children's hospitals are special, some even say miraculous, places where everything is kid-sized and child friendly, and even the sickest children have the hope of becoming healthy once again.

But even if you've never visited a children's hospital, or don't live near one, your family still has benefitted from their healing touch. With the nation's top pediatric specialists and the most sophisticated technology, children's hospitals help all children grow up healthy by pioneering new vaccines and treatments for common conditions such as asthma, and by training the majority of pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists.

Children's hospitals also advocate protections and services for children and families, including public health education, injury prevention and access to appropriate health care.

As regional centers for children's health, each children's hospital fills the unique needs of its community, but all are part of a vital national network of approximately 250 children's hospitals and related institutions that depends on public and private support to continue to benefit all children and their families.

Find the children's hospital that is right for you. Search the NACHRI Member Hospital Profiles by geographic region, pediatric specialty, care delivery program, and much more.

Read more about children's hospitals in Facts & Trends section and the All Children Need Children's Hospitals Report. It illustrates how children's hospitals carry out their four-part mission of clinical care, teaching, research and advocacy, and how they strive to overcome some of the many critical challenges facing hospitals today.