Children and Adolescents

The Tertiary Pediatrics division is responsible for the treatment of children's cardiac diseases, hematological and oncological diseases, renal diseases and transplant patients, as well as newborns in need of inpatient care at the hospital.  We treat children with gastrointestinal or rheumatic disorders, or who have skeletal growth and metabolic problems, as well as other rare diseases. The treatment of cardiac diseases and organ transplantations in children are nationally centralized in HUS. 

The Pediatric Surgery division is responsible for surgeries and procedures for patients under the age of 16 in all the specialties. We are responsible for almost all special-level pediatric surgery in HUS and all pediatric surgery in the Helsinki University Hospital Area. Nationwide, we are responsible for cardiac surgery and transplant surgery for young children, and rare and severe cases of pediatric surgery.

Surgeries and other procedures requiring general anesthesia will be performed at the New Children's Hospital. 

We treat, investigate and rehabilitate children and young people under the age of 16 with neurological disease, disability, or suspicion of one. We treat patients from all over Finland. 

We treat severe epilepsy in children, several rare neurometabolic and immunological diseases in children, rehabilitation of mobility-impaired children, and neuro-orthopedic patients nationwide. In addition, we conduct neurological examinations on pediatric patients with cancer, heart disease or immunological diseases or who have undergone organ transplantation.   

In HUS, pediatric neurology patients are treated in the pediatric outpatient clinics, day centers, and inpatient wards.  

We treat child psychiatry patients under the age of 13 from the entire Uusimaa region. We treat and examine most of the children in outpatient care at child psychiatry outpatient clinics. We also provide intensive outpatient care and child psychiatric inpatient care on the day, week and acute wards. 

In HUS, we examine and treat all pediatric illnesses. Pediatric illnesses include, for example, the treatment of infectious diseases, intestinal and rheumatic infections, and neonatal diseases.

We want our patients to receive the best possible care every day. We collect patient feedback on our care from children, adolescents, and families. The feedback we receive on nursing is valuable so that we can develop our operations.

The skilled nursing staff who thrive in their work enable the high-quality patient care we provide. We regularly monitor the job satisfaction and commitment of our nurses. We use staff feedback to develop the factors that support the wellbeing at work of the nursing staff.

We provide safe and high-quality care. We monitor and benchmark the quality of care in a variety of ways at national and international level. We use the results to continuously improve our operations to ensure the effectiveness of care and patient safety.

We are developing care according to the Magnetic model. Magnet® Recognition is a recognition of nursing excellence awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Our aim is to achieve Magnet Recognition, which reflects excellence in quality of care, patient safety, and staff satisfaction.