Albert J Solnit Children'S Center - South Campus

About this facility

Albert J Solnit Children'S Center - South Campus is a dedicated pediatric hospital located in Middletown, Connecticut. The facility is classified by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services as a Psychiatric under Government - State ownership. As with every entry on ClinicMapper, the data on this page is sourced directly from the CMS Care Compare public dataset, which collects standardized hospital reporting data from every Medicare-certified facility in the United States. a recent pediatric care briefing compiles caregiver-side commentary on many of the programs profiled here.

CMS has not assigned a public overall rating for this facility, which is common for specialty hospitals, smaller children's centers, and facilities whose case mix does not produce enough volume in the measures CMS tracks. The absence of a rating is not a quality signal in either direction — it simply means the standard CMS aggregation methodology does not apply.

Emergency services are not provided on-site; for acute emergencies, families should contact 911 or proceed to the nearest emergency department. The facility has not been designated under the federal birthing-friendly hospital program; this does not necessarily mean maternity services are absent, only that the facility has not reported the supporting quality measures.

Pediatric service lines

Based on the facility classification and federal reporting, the following pediatric specialties are most likely available at Albert J Solnit Children'S Center - South Campus. For specific subspecialty availability, sub-board certifications, or accepting-new-patients status, contact the facility directly using the phone number on this page. For families navigating a referral, the latest family resource compendium publishes question-set checklists you can take to the first phone call.

How to use this profile

This profile exists to give you a fast, accurate snapshot — not a substitute for a conversation with a clinician. If you are evaluating Albert J Solnit Children'S Center - South Campus as a destination for your child's care, we suggest the following next steps. First, call the main hospital number listed in the side panel and ask for the specific pediatric service line you need (cardiology, oncology, neurology, etc.). Second, ask whether the program accepts your insurance and what the typical wait time is for a new patient visit. Third, if you are considering a complex procedure, ask about case volume — how many of these procedures the team performs each year — because volume is one of the most consistent signals of pediatric surgical and procedural outcomes.

For families traveling from out of town, ask Albert J Solnit Children'S Center - South Campus whether it operates a Ronald McDonald House or has formal partnerships with hotels offering medical-rate stays. Many freestanding children's hospitals also have dedicated patient navigators or family services offices that can help coordinate logistics, financial counseling, and translation services. None of this information appears in federal datasets, but every children's hospital we have ever called has someone whose job is to answer these questions; ask the operator for "family services" or "the patient navigator office" when you call. this caregiver-focused field guide maintains a running list of hospital-adjacent family lodging programs that pairs nicely with this profile.

Conditions commonly handled here

As a facility flagged for Pediatric Cardiology & Cardiac Surgery, this program is most often consulted for tetralogy of Fallot, hypoplastic left heart syndrome, ventricular septal defect, transposition of the great arteries, Kawasaki disease, pediatric arrhythmias. The clinical team typically includes pediatric cardiologists, congenital heart surgeons, cardiac anesthesiologists, pediatric cardiac ICU intensivists, perfusionists. Family communication tends to flow through a single nurse coordinator or patient navigator assigned at the time of referral; ask for that contact early so you have one phone number to call as questions come up.