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MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital 

Transforming healing and care.

The MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital and Pearl Tourville Women’s Pavilion innovative building transforms how care is delivered to children and women, seamlessly integrating children’s care with obstetrical services.  

Getting Ready for the Hospital

At MUSC Health, it is our goal for you and your child to feel safe and cared for while at our hospital. To prepare for your child’s stay with us, our patient and family advisors have created these lists and guides for you.

Patient & Family Guide

A more comprehensive guide to planning for your stay and navigating while you’re with us.

Guía Para Familias

Información útil para su visita al hospital infantil.

Visit Prep List

This simple checklist will help you plan for your child’s stay

The next generation of care.

Innovative care at MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital and the Pearl Tourville Women’s Pavilion integrates Children’s and Women’s Health.

Innovative facilities
Seamlessly Integrated Care
Technology for the Future
Family-first Design
Innovative facilities

Everything we need to provide unmatched care

  • Largest Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with over 80 licensed beds and dedicated single patient family rooms

  • The most comprehensive, dedicated pediatric heart center in South Carolina

  • 22,000 lb. helicopter-rooftop helio-pad engineered to accommodate the Coast Guard’s new Jayhawk helicopter for emergency and disaster situations

  • An entire floor dedicated to the care of children with cancer
Exceptional care from birth to adulthood

Seamlessly Integrated Care

  • The Pearl Tourville Women’s Pavilion manages the simplest to the most complex obstetrical conditions

  • Two dedicated obstetrical operating rooms, enhancing safety and improving outcomes in high-risk pregnancies

  • A dedicated “stork” elevator transporting mothers from the hospital’s entrance directly to the fourth-floor maternity pavilion
Built for today and to adapt to what comes next.

Technology for the Future

This hospital functions from a technological standpoint as a hospital for the future integrated technology with real-time location system to track patients, supplies, and staff. The technology allows the family to stay connected and view care from outside the facility.

Empowering families as partners in care.

Family-first Design

  • Each patient floor has a conference room where medical teams can consult and collaborate with families in developing their patients’ care plan

  • Families staying for extended periods have access to kitchens, lounges, laundry facilities, showers, and other comforts and conveniences

  • Understanding that play and play spaces contribute an important aspect of a child’s recovery, multiple play spaces, including an atrium playroom, have been designed with the intention to meet the physical, social and emotional needs of pediatric patients

What makes MUSC Children’s Health stand apart.

See What's Possible
Our New Hospital
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