Dayton Children's Hospital is a pediatric hospital located in Dayton, Ohio. The pediatric hospital is a multi-specialty hospital that sees over 280,000 patients each year. For detailed numbers please visit the Dayton Children's annual report at childrensdayton.org/annualreport. In 2003, the hospital was ranked one of America's top 25 children's hospitals by Child (magazine). The hospital is staffed with more than 1400 full-time employees, 300 part-time employees, and nearly 250 physicians. Dayton Children's Hospital is currently the only pediatric hospital in the Dayton region.Dayton Children's Hospital is also partnered with Kohl's a Minute for Kids. The Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University is the affiliated university.HistoryFoundingIn 1919, as America was ending World War I, Annae Barney Gorman, a philanthropist and community activist, had purchased a building on Chapel Street and was making plans for a community center to offer health services, education and recreation for North Dayton residents. Within a year, she opened the Barney Community Center, which provided neighborhood residents free clinics, occupational therapy classes, a milk station and lunch program.Throughout her life, Mrs. Gorman continued to be active and interested in the progress of the community center and lived to see it develop into the only convalescent hospital in the area designed to care for polio victims. To reflect the center's expanded mission, the name was changed to the Barney Convalescent Hospital in 1947.
