Where big hearts help little patients.Our mission is to improve the health & quality of life for children with special needs & life-limiting conditions.
St. Mary’s Healthcare System for Children is committed to improving the health and quality of life for children and families with special needs.
St. Mary’s Healthcare System is one of only a handful of organizations around the country that is dedicated to providing intensive rehabilitation, specialized care, and education to children with special needs and life-limiting conditions.
Following hospitalizations in acute care facilities for complications from premature birth, illness, and injury, or when special services are needed, children and their families come to St. Mary’s to receive care, learn to manage their illness or injury, and achieve a better quality of life. As the largest provider of long-term care for children with complex medical conditions in New York State and one of the nation’s leading providers of pediatric post-acute care, St. Mary’s provides a continuum of care, treating children throughout the metropolitan area through a network of inpatient, home care and community programs and services, setting a standard of excellence in pediatric healthcare.
St. Mary’s is a not-for-profit healthcare organization.
To improve the overall health and quality of life for children and their families with special needs.
St. Mary's created the nation's first pediatric palliative care program, NY State's first long-term home healthcare program
St. Mary's pioneered NYC's first certified traumatic brain injury program.
St. Mary's is home to one of only nine interdisciplinary pediatric feeding disorder programs in the U.S.
The first and largest Pediatric AIDS Home Care Program benefits families throughout the NYC area.