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Welcome to Penn State Hershey Pediatric Nephrology and Hypertension

The Pediatric Nephrology and Hypertension team at the Penn State Children’s Hospital is an experienced group of physicians, nurses, dietitians and social workers who work together to provide evaluation and treatment to infants, children and teenagers with kidney disease or high blood pressure.

We are a division within the Department of Pediatrics at the Penn State Children’s Hospital. We provide services in both the outpatient and inpatient setting and work closely with our physician colleagues in Pediatric Urology, Renal Transplantation, and Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine, as well as many other pediatric specialists to provide comprehensive care for children with all forms of acute or chronic kidney disease.  More...

"Everyone was terrific.  I never felt I was going through it by myself.  My wife knew all the risks from the beginning.  But she's been right there the whole time.  She has sacrificed so much, so has my family and my wife's family.  My doctors at the Medical Center were absolutely supportive and understanding.  People talk about me having courage, but the real courage comes from the people around me."

Todd Hitz
Bone Marrow Transplant Recipient and Cancer Survivor


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Construction began in 2007 on a 175,000 square foot, four-story building to provide a new home for cancer-related clinical and research operations, and creating a new main hospital entrance.

The new facility will bring together leading-edge cancer treatment with ongoing cancer research in one location and help position Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute to earn a National Cancer Institute designation—the hallmark accreditation for academic cancer centers. The cancer center should be operational by early 2009.