Paul and Carol David Foundation Burn Institute

The Burn Center includes an outpatient clinic, as well as an adjacent inpatient unit with 12 beds, procedure room, triage room and dressing change rooms.  We provide care ranging from pre-injury prevention efforts, acute care, complex reconstruction and complete rehabilitation. 

We also have a Back-To-School Re-Entry Program that addresses the unique needs and concerns of children who have been burned. Through the program, we educate classmates, friends and teachers about what the child has gone through, how it may feel to be ridiculed, and changes in the child's body image. In addition, Akron Children’s is one of only two pediatric hospitals in the country that treats adult burn patients,

We are actively involved in burn research and burn-care training for professional and community groups. In fact, Akron Children’s researchers discovered the method for growing human skin in the laboratory in 1974, a technique that revolutionized the treatment of burns.