Focused, experienced care - that's what our Specialty Centers provide children of all ages. Whether families are dealing with an acute health concern or a chronic illness, they can find help and support here.

Behavioral Health Centers

Our Behavioral Health Centers (BHC) provide the treatment and support patients need to confront and conquer mental health and chemical dependency behavioral health problems. Our eight centers specialize in a variety of behavioral health services for children, adolescents and adults. We have Charlotte's only Psychiatric Emergency Department, which is also one of only a few free-standing psychiatric emergency departments nationwide. For more information, call the 24-hour Behavioral Health Call Center at 800-418-2065 or 704-444-2400.

CARE (Caring About Remission Everyday) Clinic

The CARE Clinic is a special clinic for long term pediatric cancer survivors. A multidisciplinary approach is used to provide direct patient care, educate, and counsel patients regarding the specific risks to which they are susceptible. This clinic changes from a focus on treatment of the primary disease and/or its recurrence to a focus on wellness and surveillance of potential late-effects of therapy. As the population of childhood cancer survivors increases, our efforts to continue support, guidance, and preventive care for these individuals is crucial in order to enhance our survivor's health and improve their quality of life.

Carolinas Diabetes Center

Diabetes is a disease that requires constant monitoring and care for anyone who is managing it, but diabetes in children increases the demand for care. Children's changing bodies cause sugar levels to swing wildly, and they can react differently to their medicine from week to week. Our specialized diabetes center plays an important role in assisting primary care physicians as they help patients successfully self-manage their disease. Through individual and small group sessions, patients and family members learn about topics including meal planning, exercise regimens and the importance of checking blood sugar levels regularly. For more information, please contact 704-446-2320. Visit web site.

Carolinas Epilepsy Center

The region's most comprehensive services for diagnosing and treating epilepsy are available at the Carolinas Epilepsy Center. The Center is staffed by a multidisciplinary team of medical specialists and health professionals with access to sophisticated onsite technology.    

Carolinas Pediatric Resource Center 

Childhood should be a safe time for children. Unfortunately, some children are denied this basic right, suffering from neglect and abuse at the hands of the very people entrusted with their care. The Pediatric Resource Center is a clinic dedicated to the unique and delicate needs of children who are suspected of being victims of sexual abuse.

The warm and friendly environment is filled with toys, art supplies, games, videotapes and magazines. Even more importantly, it is staffed by caring professionals who work carefully and systematically with children to help understand what they will need to begin to heal.

If you suspect that a child you know has been a victim of abuse, contact the Department of Social Services' 24-Hour Child Abuse and Neglect HOTLINE: 704-336-CARE (2273). Click here for more information.

  
Carolinas Poison Center

Because most poisonings are accidental, they're easily preventable. At the Carolinas Poison Center, we're working to help reduce incidences of poisoning by actively promoting poison prevention. We share our message of prevention with many local parents and caretakers of young children, day care centers, schools, and church and civic groups each year.

In case of an emergency poisoning call 800-222-1222, our statewide, toll free number.

Charlotte and Mecklenburg County residents can call the local emergency line at 704-355-4000.

Children's Specialty Center

The Children's Specialty Center offers specialized care for children in the areas of cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, genetics, infectious disease, orthopedics, nephrology, sleep medicine, surgery and urology. Our pediatric specialists provide comprehensive evaluation, treatment, education, diagnostic testing, patient care and research services. Currently there are three children's specialty center locations to serve patients close to home. Click here for more information.

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Pediatric Rehabilitation Services

Levine Children's Hospital provides comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation services for children and adolescents who have experienced a debilitating illness or injury. Our comprehensive, nationally-recognized pediatric program serves children of all ages from infants to teens.

Our rehabilitation team is committed to the compassionate, comprehensive management of children and their families' rehabilitation needs in order to help children and adolescents gain their highest level of function possible upon return to everyday life. Click here to go directly to the pediatric rehabilitation web section.

Pediatric Rhizotomy/Spasticity Clinic for Children with Cerebral Palsy

Spasticity poses unique challenges to growing and developing children. Improper nerve signals cause muscles to contract when they should be relaxed or unflexed. The condition can be painful often affecting children's mobility, ability to care for themselves and their overall comfort.

The Pediatric Spasticity Clinic provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach to spasticity in children. These children, often sufferers of cerebral palsy, can often benefit from either surgical or non-surgical intervention. Working with patients and their caregivers, our team defines treatment goals. With the overall goal of improving some aspect of the child's life.

Clinical Genetics Center

Medical geneticists and genetic counselors in our Clinical Genetics Center gather family and medical histories and perform detailed medical examinations to help families better understand children's birth defects or genetic disorders. For more information, call 704-381-6810.

Lipid Clinic

The Lipid Clinic addresses the special needs of children and adolescents with disorders of cholesterol metabolism in a combined effort with the Center for Cardiovascular Health. Highlighted by a comprehensive and personalized assessment by our specially trained physicians, the Clinic aims to develop a specific plan for each patient, including medical therapies and cardio-protective lifestyle changes.

Neonatal and Infant Apnea Program

The Neonatal and Infant Apnea Program  helps practitioners provide state-of-the-art care for infants with apnea. The program assists infants' primary care physicians with diagnostic studies and ongoing home monitoring interpretation. The results and implications of each study are discussed directly with the infant's physician or nurse, including options for management.

Neonatal Home Management Program

For neonatal infants and families, the transition from hospital to home isn't always easy. That's why we have a team of neonatal nurses to help families at home after their child's been discharged.

As a part of our Neonatal Home Management Program, these specially trained nurses help families assess the physical well-being and progress of the child. They also provide important emotional and psychological support to the family who may be overwhelmed or learning how to care for their child's special needs.

One Day Surgery Center

Many medical services and surgical procedures that once required an overnight stay can today be done in a few hours in our One Day Surgery Center. Located on the first floor of the Medical Center Plaza on the Carolinas Medical Center campus, the Center features 11 operating rooms, a recovery room area and a stepdown unit.

For more information, call 704-355-5776. Tours of the facility are available for pediatric patients and their families. To schedule a tour, call the Child Life Program at 704-381-3257.

Pediatric Care Practices

Carolinas HealthCare provides pediatric care and services through Carolinas Physicians Network practices. Click here for a listing of participating physician practices.

Pediatric Cardiovascular Services

Many adults must consider taking steps to ensure a healthy heart. But most don't have to face something much harder -
learning their child's heart is damaged. The pediatric cardiologists provide services for infants, children and young adults
with congenital and acquired cardiac problems. We provide patients and their families with inpatient and outpatient diagnosis, treatment and follow-up care for many cardiovascular disorders.

The pediatric cardiologists and pediatric cardiovascular surgeons from the Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute provide the most advanced diagnostic evaluation methods such as such as color Doppler echocardiography and cardiac catheterization available today to pediatric cardiac patients. Currently, we are home to the only pediatric cardiac-catheterization and pediatric cardiovascular surgery programs in the region. Our cardiologists use cardiac caths to do more than help determine the severity of a child's heart defect. Many problems can be treated right in the cath lab, which means your child may be able to avoid

Services provided by this comprehensive care program include catheterization procedures, open heart surgeries, interventions on lung and peripheral vessels, transplants, cardiothoracic and pulmonary surgery, peripheral vascular surgery, pacemaker and defibrillator implantation, ablation therapy and ECMO therapy. As an alternative to surgery, the staff also uses advanced interventional cardiology techniques where appropriate. For more information about the pediatric cardiology program and Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute please call 704-373-1813 or 800-55-HEART.

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Program 

The Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Program at Levine Children's Hospital is specifically designed for the comprehensive treatment of pediatric and adolescent patients with cancer or blood disorders. The Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Outpatient Center is located on the 6th floor of Medical Center Plaza on the Carolinas Medical Center campus, across the street from Levine Children's Hospital. The team of physicians and nurses focuses on meeting the complex medical and emotional needs of patients and their families. Services at the outpatient center are specifically designed to meet the developmental and psychosocial needs of children and their families. In addition to medical care these services include child life, social work services, support programs for both patients and families, nutritional services, outpatient infusion services, and phlebotomy services.

Pediatric Home Care

Advances in home care therapy allow many patients to recover in the comfort of home. Families with children in need of nursing care, therapy, and/or infusion can rely on the staff of our CMC-Home Care. They're specially trained in pediatrics and work within the family structure to provide the best outcome for the child's quality of life.

Our Home Care staff members provide nursing, physical assessments, medical social work, physical, occupational and speech therapy and infusion services. They can also provide hands-on education and training so families can learn how to best care for their child's special needs.