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Evaluates and treats children with allergic diseases that include: allergic rhinitis, chronic sinusitis, and eczema. A nurse specialist and social worker provide counseling.

Provides comprehensive treatment for patients of all ages with Lysomal Storage Diseases, such as Gaucher Disease, Pompe Disease, Fabry Disease, and Mucopolysaccharide Storage Diseases. Provides all the components of care for patients and their families from initial consultation, testing and diagnosis to follow-up and treatment as well as genetic counseling, carrier screening and prenatal diagnosis.

General and specialty pediatric services in a child-friendly and state-of-the-art facility

Provides a network of pediatric specialty hospitals, founded by the Shrine, where children <18yrs receive medical care regardless of ability to pay.

* Provides pediatric hospital and services.* Offers an adolescent clinic with inpatient and outpatient medical care.* Provides an eating disorders clinic. Multi-disciplinary eating disorders treatment. Acute inpatient hospitalization, 17 day protocol. Prevention. Public Awareness and Education.* Offers interdisciplinary outpatient clinic.* Offers case management provided in the Health Home Model. * Provides telemedicine in day care demonstration project.* Offers volunteer opportunities.

* Provides general acute care services:

• Hospital Services.
• Emergency Room Services.
• Pediatric Emergency Room.

Treats children with a wide range of illnesses and conditions, from allergies to urological problems.

* Provides general acute care services: Hospital Services. Emergency Room Services. Pediatric Emergency Room.

This multidisciplinary center is comprised of staff from the Divisions of Human Genetics and Pediatric Neurology. Referrals to Orthopedic and Ophthamolic services are coordinated by the genetic counselor, as needed. The Clinic provides diagnosis, management, coordination of medical care, genetic counseling and education.

Children and adolescents with HIV infection and other diseases that lead to secondary, not genetically defined immune defects, are evaluated and treated. Physicians, Nurse Specialists, Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, Social Workers and Laboratory Technologists formulate treatment protocols for these children.

John R. Oishei Children’s Hospital (OCH) is a regional center for pediatric and women’s health, located on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. As one of the only freestanding children's hospitals in New York State, OCH provides comprehensive care to infants, children, teens and young adults up to age 21, along with specialized women’s health services, including prenatal care, labor and delivery, and postpartum support. The hospital features a state-of-the-art labor and delivery unit and is home to a Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), the highest level of care available for critically ill or premature newborns. With 185 inpatient beds and a rooftop helipad, OCH also houses an ACS-verified Level I Pediatric Trauma Center—one of the few in the region. It is a teaching hospital affiliated with the State University of New York at Buffalo and part of the Kaleida Health system, serving patients from across Western New York and Southern Ontario.

Patients are evaluated by the Divisions of Human Genetics and Cardiology. Referrals to Orthopedic and Ophthalmologic services are coordinated by the genetic counselor, as needed. Patients are seen for medical follow-up and counseling at reqular intervals. The Clinic provides diagnosis, management coordination of medical care, genetic counseling and education.

Provides an 18-bed inpatient unit as well as ambulatory and satellite programs tailored to the unique medical and developmental needs of teenagers and young adults. Services include: General Health Care, Eating Disorders Center, Weight Management Center, Atherosclerosis Prevention Center, Adolescent Gynecology, Deaf Health Services, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Services, Behavioral Health Services, HIV Prevention Services and School Based Health Services.

Pediatric specialists, evaluate children with genetically defined, primary immune defects that lead to recurrent serious infection in childhood and adolescents. For these patients, bone marrow transplant or gene therapy, where appropriate, are used for immune reconstitution.

Provides diagnosis and comprehensive care for children with facial, oral and skull abnormalities, such as cleft lip and palate, skull abnormalities cheek, jaw and soft tissue abnormalities anatomic swallowing problems. Works closely with referring physician.

Provides comprehensive care for children diagnosed with tumors of the nervous system(brain and spinal cord).

Provides comprehensive medical and psychosocial evaluation and management to children and adolescents with this disorder.

Provides comprehensive care to cystic fibrosis patients from infancy to adulthood. Offers a holistic and family focused approach to patient care with an emphasis on promoting normal physical and emotional growth and development. Goals include slowing the progression of the disease, prevention and treatment of complications and helping the patients integrate the disease and strenuous medical treatments into daily life. Provides a home care program. Parent support groups are available on a as needed basis.

Provides medical management from the time of diagnosis through young adulthood including the treatment of diabetic ketoacidosis, stabilization and initiation of insulin therapy, training in diabetes survival skills, establishment of diabetes self-care, ongoing diabetes care tailored to developmental stage, and promotion of individualized intensive diabetes care.

The Food Allergy Center is a comprehensive center for children with food allergies. Skin and CAP RAST testing, along with double blind, placebo controlled food challenges, are performed to identify allergy triggers. The staff provides counseling, educational materials and support to patients and families.