St. Christopher's Hospital for Children Comes to Bucks County

St. Chris Pediatric Specialty Care Now Available in Yardley

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 18, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- St. Christopher's Hospital for Children announced today it has opened a multispecialty pediatric practice in Bucks County, Pa.  StChris Care at Bucks County, located at 301 Oxford Valley Road in Yardley, Pa., brings advanced care and greater access to experienced pediatric specialists for families in Bucks and nearby counties.  

Specialties available at the site include cardiology including general services, Echocardiogram and EKG; general surgery, neurosurgery and orthopedics with additional specialties to be added in the near future.

StChris Care at Bucks County includes five examination rooms and a procedure room.  

This center is the fifth location to be added to St. Christopher's specialty care network.  St. Chris pediatric specialty care is also available in Abington, the Lehigh Valley, and Reading in Pennsylvania, and in Washington Township in Southern New Jersey.

To learn more about StChris Care at Bucks County or to find a specialist, call 1-888-STCHRIS.

Since 1875, St. Christopher's Hospital for Children has been providing exceptional patient care and advancing new pediatric treatments through research and innovation. Through affiliations with Drexel University College of Medicine and Temple University School of Medicine, St. Christopher's is a teaching hospital helping to train the next generation of professionals in pediatric medicine.

The 189-bed hospital is committed to delivering high quality family- and patient-centered care to children from throughout the Philadelphia area and around the world. Its highly acclaimed programs include its Level I Pediatric Trauma Center; Level IIIC NICU, which is the highest NICU designation; Heart Center, Oncology/Transplant; as well as its Burn Center, which is the only dedicated pediatric burn center in the area. In 2009, St. Christopher's achieved Magnet status, which is one of the nation's highest forms of recognition for nursing excellence, and numerous St. Chris physicians were recognized in regional publications as being "Top Docs" in their fields.

To learn more about St. Christopher's, visit www.stchristophershospital.com. St. Christopher's can also be found on Facebook at www.facebook.com/StChrisHospital or on Twitter at http://twitter.com/stchrishospital.

SOURCE St. Christopher's Hospital for Children