Locations & Facilities

One of the things you may appreciate most is the duPont Hospital for Children’s location. We’re situated amid a beautiful park-like setting, with huge oak trees, inviting green lawns and a variety of welcoming amenities:

• free parking (or $5 valet parking, especially helpful as you negotiate a walker or wheelchair, etc.)
• playground
• kid-friendly waiting areas
• little red wagons (available for escorting your young children)
• interactive Discovery Zone Presented by DuPont 
• rooftop Healing Garden
• Abessinio Gift Shop
• café and cafeteria
• on-site pharmacy
• Family Resource Center (with private sleeping rooms, a library, showers, kitchenette, laundry room and business center)
• Ronald McDonald House of Delaware (right across the street from our campus)

The Augmentative Communication team’s offices are right next to the Wheelchair Clinic, since they often work with the wheelchair team to add enhanced communication aids to a child’s seating system.

The Gait Lab is conveniently located on the ground floor, an easy elevator ride down from the Orthopedic Outpatient Clinic. Here, too, you’ll find warm and friendly staff ready to make you and your child feel at home. The colorful Wizard of Oz wall mural should help, too.

Our Orthopedic Outpatient Clinic is right on the first floor of our hospital, which is especially handy if your child is getting around with a walker or by wheelchair. You’ll find the space to be bright and welcoming, and filled with staff members who are warm and friendly. Once you get checked in, you and your child will see your orthopedic cerebral palsy expert and team right in the clinic area.

We offer an orthotic clinic right in the hospital, filled with specialists who can fit your child with prefabricated or custom-made orthotics, as needed. The clinic is located on the hospital’s first floor, between the orthopedics cast room and the Radiology (Medical Imaging) Department.

If your child or teen is receiving these therapies on an outpatient basis (just visiting the hospital for the day), the therapy areas are located right next to Augmentative Communication and the Wheelchair Clinic.

If your child or teen is receiving these therapies on an inpatient basis (staying at the hospital), you’ll find the therapy areas on the second floor, just above the Orthopedic Outpatient Clinic.

The Radiology (Medical Imaging) Department is located on the hospital’s first floor, next to the orthopedics cast room. The Department offers an array of medical imaging tests if your child’s orthopedic specialist recommend one. And, if your child needs frequent tests over the years, rest assured that our pediatric radiology team is committed to limiting your child’s radiation exposure by using the lowest dose necessary to get an accurate image.

The Wheelchair Clinic is also located on the ground floor, just across the hall from the Gait Lab. This clinic is filled with a large variety of wheelchair models and standing assist devices, as well as equipment and tools to help the rehabilitation engineer and technician find the proper fit for your child.