Sites of Cincinnati #5

This is another place that isn't a Cincinnati Tourist Hot Spot, but it's one of the reasons why I never want to leave this city.  At least not until my kids are all over the age of 18.

Sites of Cincinnati #5:
Cincinnati Children's Hospital

Seriously, this place is amazing.  Every year it ranks as one of the best children's hospitals in the world.  Example (from an e-mail sent to me from Children's Hospital on June 4, 2010):

Cincinnati Children's Makes U.S. News and World Report's Honor Roll
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center is one of only 8 pediatric hospitals in the United States to be included on the Honor Roll in U.S. News & World Report's 2010 edition of America's Best Children's Hospitals. 

The honor roll features only those hospitals ranked in all 10 specialties: cancer, diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology, heart and heart surgery, kidney, neonatology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology and urology.

Cincinnati Children's ranked in the top 10 in all these specialties:

#1 Gastroenterology	#4 Urology
#2 Pulmonology	#5 Orthopedics
#3 Kidney	#5 Diabetes and Endocrinology
#3 Neonatology	#8 Neurology and Neurosurgery
#4 Cancer	#9 Heart and Heart Surgery

Read more about Cincinnati Children's and our U.S. News rankings.

Okay, so the e-mail was a little self-serving.  But still, it's a great thing to know that, no matter what emergency might befall my children, they'll receive world class care at Children's.  And believe me, after listening to some of the stories from people who don't live close to such a hospital, it makes me never, ever, ever want to move.