Working at CHKD

CHKD Health System offers a network of comprehensive pediatric services in more than 40 locations that stretch from Williamsburg to Elizabeth City, North Carolina. On the outpatient side, we offer primary care, diagnostic services, urgent care, emergency care, rehabilitative therapies, day surgery and care in more than 20 pediatric subspecialties. Inpatient care is offered at Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters, Virginia's only comprehensive freestanding pediatric hospital.

Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters has a long history of stepping up to serve the changing needs of children. We trace our roots to the late 1890s when our founding organization, The King’s Daughters, sent a nurse on a bicycle through the city’s poorest neighborhoods offering care to families in need.

After years of operating the visiting nurse service and subsequent health clinics, The King’s Daughters opened CHKD in 1961. It was then and still remains Virginia’s only freestanding full-service pediatric hospital. In the ‘70s, when medical advances began to improve survival rates of critically ill newborns, we added a neonatal intensive care unit. In the mid ‘80s, we built our own operating rooms, and in 1994, we opened an eight-story tower with enough beds to meet inpatient demand.

Over the decades, CHKD invested in our residency training program. We became home to the world-renowned Nuss Center for chest wall reconstruction and established our child abuse program. We brought dozens of pediatricians into the organization and have opened health and surgery centers and urgent care centers across the region. We became a Level I pediatric trauma center and a Level I Children’s Surgery Center. We have focused on everything from childhood cancer to cardiac surgery and from childhood obesity to sports medicine.