Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health
Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health is a nationally ranked children's hospital located on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus in Indianapolis, Indiana.
It is named for James Whitcomb Riley, a writer and poet who lived in Indiana. In 1916, a group of prominent citizens who knew Riley started the Riley Memorial Association (later called Riley Children's Foundation) to build a children's hospital in memory of Riley. The hospital opened in 1924. In 1950, the foundation started Camp Riley, a camp in south central Indiana for children with disabilities.
In 2013, ten specialty programs of Riley at IU Health were ranked among the top children's hospitals nationwide by U.S.News & World Report 2013-2014 edition of America's Best Children's Hospitals and placed Riley's urology 5th, diabetes and endocrinology 9th, pulmonology 15th, nephrology 16th, neurology and neurosurgery 19th, orthopedics 19th, gastroenterology 23rd, and cardiology and heart surgery 25th.