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Children's hospital
Hospital that offers its services exclusively to children / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Children's hospital (disambiguation).
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A children's hospital (CH)[2] is a hospital that offers its services exclusively to infants, children, adolescents, and young adults from birth up to until age 18, and through age 21 and older in the United States.[3] In certain special cases, they may also treat adults.[4][5] The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th century, as pediatric medical and surgical specialties separated from internal medicine and adult surgical specialties.
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