The Hospital

Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital is a not-for-profit organization established in 1947. Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital is the most established paediatric multi-specialty hospital in Eastern and Central Africa, providing healthcare to children in Kenya as well as those referred from neighbouring countries. The hospital attends to over 400,000 patients annually through a network of 17 medical centres, using a self-sustaining financing model.

Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital is licensed to provide healthcare to children, teens, and young adults up to 21 years of age and provides the full range of healthcare services including preventive care, accident and emergency, outpatient care, inpatient medical and surgical care, and rehabilitation services. The hospital provides specialist care covering over twenty-seven aspects of paediatric specialization, and also runs a teens’ clinic providing comprehensive healthcare to teenagers and young adults. Gertrude’s Children’s hospital is licensed and recognized as a Level 5 Healthcare Facility, a Tertiary Referral, Teaching & Research Hospital.

The hospital employs more than 800 professionals and works with over 300 independent practitioners to provide high quality healthcare services. The hospital allocates substantial resources towards staff training and development with greater emphasis on specialized training. The hospital has a fully accredited Ethical Review Board that oversees research activities which range from operations research to clinical trials. The Gertrude’s Institute of Child Health and Research coordinates all training activities including specialized training for nurses, fellowship training for doctors, as well as accredited short courses.

Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital has put in place a very robust quality and safety program that ensures continuous improvement in line with internationally acceptable benchmarks. As a member of the Children’s Hospitals Association, USA, Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital benchmarks its care processes and outcomes with the best children’s hospitals in the world. Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital is the first paediatric hospital in Sub-Saharan Africa to be accredited by the Joint Commission International (JCI), USA. The JCI accreditation is the gold standard for best practices in healthcare quality, safety, and management.

The hospital, through the Gertrude’s Hospital Foundation, works with different partners to provide much needed care to children from less privileged families, establish highly specialized services, provide specialized training, and improve the quality of paediatric care in sub- Saharan Africa.