Compassionate Inpatient Care for Children with Cancer 

When children with cancer require hospitalization, they need the care of skilled and compassionate pediatric oncologists and others who deliver state-of-the-art care. That’s why Georgia Regents Medical Center’s Children's Hospital of Georgia offers a dedicated pediatric cancer unit with:

• The areas’ only pediatric oncologists who deliver a continuum of care from diagnosis to surgery to chemotherapy and radiation to follow-up care 
• Dedicated pediatric oncology nurses who are chemotherapy certified by the Association of Pediatric Oncology Nurses
• In-unit chemotherapy based on special protocols for pediatric oncology
• Dedicated pediatric dieticians, pharmacists and respiratory therapists
• Wireless telemetry monitoring
• Child Life Specialists to help children understand and cope with care
• A Pediatric Evaluation Team (PET) to quickly access a patient’s health status
• Certified Oncology Nurse Educators and a Family Resource Library
• Patient Family Centered Care
• Pediatric Sedation Teams, specially trained to safely sedate children for medical procedures 
• Ongoing research and access to clinical trials
• A dedicated playroom 
• Camp Rainbow, a camp for oncology patients and their siblings  

For more information, call 706-721-KIDS (5437) or toll free at 888-721-KIDS (5437) to speak to a member of our care team.