About Stony Brook Children's Hospital

There’s one thing that every parent should know about Stony Brook Children’s Hospital: It offers the most advanced pediatric specialty care in the region. That means that the smallest babies, the sickest children, and the most complex pediatric traumas all get sent to Stony Brook Children’s. 

With more than 180 pediatric physicians available in over 30 pediatric specialties, we offer a full range of medical services to support the physical, emotional and mental development of infants, children and young adults. We also provide leading-edge care for just about every diagnosis — from a simple fracture to a kidney transplant. And as an academic medical center actively engaged in research, we offer families access to groundbreaking, and often lifesaving, clinical trials for their children. We invite you to learn more about the exceptional care Stony Brook Children’s provides for children and families on Long Island.

Our Approach To Care

Stony Brook Children’s works on the premise that children come first, and their families are the most important members of the treatment team. We call this patient- and family-centered care. We adopted this approach not only because it was the right thing to do — after all, the family is vital to the healing process — but also because research shows that increased involvement of the patient’s family results in better outcomes.

Our multidisciplinary treatment teams follow best practices, practice evidence-based medicine, and continually incorporate the latest research and technology into our diagnostics and treatment. Our teams provide a coordinated approach to diagnosis, treatment and follow-up.

As a result, patients receive comprehensive care delivered efficiently and seamlessly. This approach not only better serves patients — giving them well-managed care with a sense of continuity and comfort — but it also contributes to outcomes that typically exceed national benchmarks. Each team is customized to meet the needs of the individual child and may consist of pediatric specialists and subspecialists, residents, fellows, registered nurses, nurse practitioners, social workers, nutritionists, rehabilitation therapists, along with the family and the child’s referring physician.

Awards And Accreditations

Accredited by Joint Commission

Reflecting the level of excellence and expertise offered, Stony Brook Children’s is fully accredited by the Joint Commission and other national and international accrediting bodies. Our physicians are board-certified, often in more than one specialty, and our nurses and other clinical staff typically have additional pediatric certification, plus years of experience in treating children.

Member of Children’s Hospital Association

We are a proud member of the prestigious Children’s Hospital Association (CHA), a not-for-profit association of children’s hospitals and large pediatric units dedicated to improving the health of America’s 70 million children and families, no matter how sick or how poor. Stony Brook Children’s is one of the association’s 220 members, which gives us access to CHA’s collective wisdom and initiatives, as well as an opportunity to share our own expertise with other children’s hospitals throughout the country.

Member of the Child Health Patient Safety Organization

And we are a member of the Child Health Patient Safety Organization. The Child Health PSO helps participants improve safety and quality of child health care delivery within a secure environment. Learn more.

Additional affiliations and accolades include:

  • Stony Brook Children’s Pediatric Echocardiography Laboratory was accredited for Pediatric Transthoracic and Fetal Echocardiography by the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Echocardiography Laboratories (ICAEL).
     
  • Our Cystic Fibrosis Center was recognized by the American Board of Pediatrics for our success in improving care for patients. We have also been accredited by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation since 1990.
     
  • Stony Brook Children’s Family Advocacy Group received First Place recognition at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI) annual meeting, for our Quality Improvement poster depicting the development and implementation of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Family Advocacy Board.
     
  • Stony Brook Maternal Child HIV Center is one of only 9 Centers of Excellence in New York State, designated by the NYS AIDS Institute.
     
  • Stony Brook Children’s Lourie Center for Pediatric MS, which is funded in part by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, has been designated as a Center of Excellence by the Society.
     
  • The Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Comprehensive Care Center at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital is certified by Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy.
     
  • Stony Brook Children’s Hospital is a Member of Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare.
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