Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

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Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center is a hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was founded in 1883, and was originally called The Hospital of the Protestant Episcopal Church. In 1884 the initial building was a single three bedroom home in Walnut Hills, a community north of downtown Cincinnati. The hospital has been a significant player in a variety of historic medical breakthroughs, most prominently the development of the oral polio vaccine by Dr. Sabin in 1960, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Currently the hosptial sees roughly 800,000 patients a year, and has a budget of $1 billion dollars.

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