Whois & Analysis for stanfordchildrens.org

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford (LPCH) is a children's hospital which is part of the Stanford University system.

It is located adjacent to the campus at 725 Welch Road, Palo Alto, California.

It was founded in 1991.

It is staffed by over 650 physicians and 4,750 staff and volunteers.

It specializes in the care of babies, children, adolescents, and expectant mothers.

Obstetrics is the field of study concentrated on pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period.

As a medical specialty, obstetrics is combined with gynaecology under the discipline known as obstetrics and gynaecology (OB/GYN).

Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics or pædiatrics) is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents, and the age limit usually ranges from birth up to 18-21 years of age (in some places until completion of secondary education).

A medical practitioner who specializes in this area is known as a pediatrician, or paediatrician.

The word pediatrics and its cognates mean "healer of children"; they derive from two Greek words: (pais "child") and (iatros "doctor, healer").

Pediatricians work both in hospitals, particularly those working in its specialized subfields such as neonatology, and as primary care physicians.

Health care or healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in human beings.

Healthcare is delivered by health professionals (providers or practitioners) in allied health professions, chiropractic, physicians, physician associates, dentistry, midwifery, nursing, medicine, optometry, pharmacy, psychology, and other health professions.

It includes the work done in providing primary care, secondary care, and tertiary care, as well as in public health.

Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California, adjacent to Palo Alto and between San Jose and San Francisco.

Its campus is one of the largest in the United States.

Stanford also has land and facilities elsewhere.