Riley Hospital for Children

[8] In 1935, the hospital installed a hydrotherapeutic pool, the dedication of which President Franklin Delano Roosevelt attended.

[8] After opening the laboratory, the hospital was the first in the nation to carry out percutaneous cardiac catheterization in children.

the hospital was the first to achieve a successful heart-lung bypass surgery, also called an ECMO procedure, for critically ill infants and children.

Shortly after, U.S. News & World Report magazine recognized Clarian Health Partners as some of the finest hospitals in the United States from 1997 through 2005.

Also in that year, the hospital was authorized to proceed with Phase 1 of pediatric cancer research protocols.

Riley received high ranking on Child magazine's America's best children's hospitals list.

Finally, in 2005, Riley commenced its $500 million, ten-year plan, and its Neonatal Intensive Care Unit was ranked in the top five in the nation according to Child magazine.

The foundations fundraising efforts allowed for the hospital provide free medical care.

The camp staff has training to give proper emotional, medical, and physical support to the campers.

Medical practitioners and nurses are at the camp twenty-four hours to ensure maximum safety.

Its department includes twenty-four physicians, nineteen nurses, ten respiratory therapists, and social workers and dieticians.

This program leads Indiana in diagnosing and treating infants, children, and adolescents who have acute and chronic respiratory disease.

James Whitcomb Riley , the hospital's namesake, was known as the Children's Poet.