Johns Hopkins Children's Center

"Words are not enough to explain how the nicu staff, hell the entire hospital and everyone we met during our unimaginable ordeal with our son Parker. He was pronounced deceased at 2:01pm September 23,2025. Due to covid. He was perfectly healthy before bed. 3am mom woke me up almost throwing me to the floor. We arrived at bayview 6 or 7 mins after i opened my eyes. Then transferred to hopkins baltimore Orleans street. Nobody can prepare for what we had faced with our 2 month old hero. The care and support we have recieved when there 9-17 thru 9-25 is unbelievable. Seriously great people. From experience our family felt as if we were part of each and everyone's family that helped with our son. The amount of support and love was nothing like we've experienced before. If I was in a position to do so I would fund the work they do for families like mine. They did so much for all of us. We have 4 girls and Parker our only son. Ages 21,19,17,almost 3 and forever 2 months young. These amazing people did above and beyond and then some. For each and every one of us, me, mom each of our girls if they had questions or needed anything explained better, they gave each of us any amount of time and information we needed until we understood. They spared nothing to help our family. We are extremely thankful and grateful for everything they do. Real life angels and super heroes. How they do it day in day out is beyond me. Just glad they do it and take pride in doing whatever they can to help. Its 3 months today since Parker passed, the hospital sent us an envelope, contents unknown because mom is working and I refuse to open anything without her next to me because we do these things together. Its so hard. We thank you all and pray for everyone of you to have great health and the strength to continue doing what you do. Please keep up the amazing job you all do. Also if you read this and have the ability to donate or help them in any way, please do so. Nobody can ever be prepared for the unimaginable. These people have a special place in our families hearts forever now. On top of all that when we call down there to ask a question since 9-25-2025 they still remember our family or our son. They see so many kids and people daily. For them to remember us as they have , really speaks to them as to how much they care. Hopefully in my lifetime ill be able to do things to help them in the future, so they can continue providing family's like mine with the support and help they need."

"We took my 19mo daughter to the children's emergency room last night after 24+ hours of a nasty tummy bug and concerns of dehydration. I cannot say enough about how wonderful our experience was. I was so nervous to bring my daughter to an ER, expecting her to get rushed through, poked, and prodded. That was not at all what we experienced. The NP, Sarah, was so kind to us and explained everything in such detail, answering all our questions with patience and kindness. She offered solutions that were as minimally invasive as possible, such as a bag to collect a urine sample rather than a catheter, and allowing us to offer water and popsicles under observation rather than just hook her up for fluids. I am forever grateful to everyone there for making our experience as seamless as possible. What could have easily been traumatic and scary was far from it."

"I personally had a great experience in the inpatient and out patient program here. The staff actually cares about you, and does everything with a smile. I am very glad that you did not have to share a bedroom with anybody. The food there was very comfort food friendly and actually tasted nice. You were also allowed to pick your own meals. I actually ate in the inpatient program because of this. For the outpatient program, I personally did not like SOME of the staff members. But most were very accepting and would talk with us about things we both liked. I was in the outpatient program when the election started and ended. I did not like how we were not allowed to talk about it. Even though me and many others were upset and crying. Even a nurse said something was up! We should be allowed to talk about something that has affected our life, even if it may be political. But that was overshadowed by the amazing food, friends, and staff."

"My son brought my 5-year-old granddaughter to the Johns Hopkins Children's ER on Sunday night with red eyes, cough, fever, incontinence, diarrhea, belly pain, dehydration, runny nose, headache, extreme fatigue, ear pain, tachycardia and irritability. She was clearly not well. All they did was give her an IV (7 hours later) only after we asked for it, took labs (hours after the iv) and then sent her home. No real concern. No plan. No guidance. We left with more questions than answers and I deeply regret trusting that her condition was taken seriously. Within 36 hours, her mother had to take her to a different hospital and she is now being admitted with the flu and pneumonia. I'm extremely disappointed and upset. As her grandmother, you expect a children's ER to respond with urgency and care. Instead, we felt dismissed and disregarded. What happened here is unacceptable. It might not happen to everyone, but this was our experience and parents deserve to know. I will never bring her back here. Pay attention to how your child is treated and don't be afraid to advocate or go somewhere else."

"Slowest most rude hospital I've ever experienced in my life have no real plan of care for my child every shift change they go against everything they have already informed us on I would recommend driving to another state if you have a child that needs hospital care if I could give 0 stars I would. Experience from the PCICU and the PCU"

"Maya Kowalski was a young girl suffering from a severe pain condition called CRPS. In 2016, she was taken to Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, where doctors suspected her mother, Beata, of medical child abuse and the state removed Maya from her care. Beata was blocked from seeing her daughter for months, became emotionally devastated, and tragically took her own life in January 2017. Later, the family sued the hospital and won a jury verdict of over $250 million. And now Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital is appealing the trial, verdict and compensation. Maya's mom, Beata, was caregiver to Maya and ER refused to believe her and the diagnosis of CRPS. Beata was intense in the care of Maya so as to stay on top of her painful, often debilitating illness. The ER, staff, nurses all thought Beata was abusing Maya because they didn't believe her condition. The hospital put a restraining order against her, then even talking on the phone, supervised. Beata had to move out of the marital home so Maya's dad could visit. Separated from her daughter in every way possible, fearing Maya would never get the proper treatment as the hospital did not believe her diagnosis and treatment plan already in place, being completely torn apart from a her child, Beata tragically unalived herself. All caused by Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital and their continued bias. Now they want to inflict more pain and suffering on this family. Shame on Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital! I added five stars so this could be seen!"

"Simply the ER wait time is the worst. It might take 10 hrs and nurses and staff is the worst."

"Today marks the day we were forced into a lung biopsy in order to have my son's laryngeal cleft repaired. Cleft repair we've been asking to have done since December. We've been telling the doctors for months the issue with his lungs is due to chronic aspiration and they won't get better unless we repair his cleft. They continued to refuse. A lung biopsy is such an invasive procedure he now has a drainage tube, is on Valium and has a nerve block of morphine. Cleft repair is same day outpatient. I'll update this post with the biopsy results it's currently 2:17pm 4/4/25. Edit: 4/25/25 8:10 am I had to continue to reach out to them for the results which finally 3 weeks later I have. He was definitely aspirating, nothing else to show. Sad that my poor baby had to go through something so painful he required morphine for 3 days for NOTHING. To fix a condition that we knew was present without a biopsy. I would not recommend this hospital to anyone. They are about to put policies in place that will no longer have specialized floors by age. Meaning the floors that specialize in babies will now have all ages on it and nurses that have to juggle multiple specialties at once. It's going to get so much worse. Beware this hospital."