Created in 1869 through a generous initiative of the Salviati family, and donated to the Holy See in 1924, the Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital is now a comprehensive children's polyclinic. In 1985, it has been formally recognized by the Italian Ministry of Health as "Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico" IRCCS (Research Hospital), and it is now one of the three Paediatric IRCCS in Italy, and the only one for Central and Southern Regions. The Hospital is a reference point in Italy and abroad and it is connected to the most important paediatric centres in Europe and the United States.The Bambino Gesù Hospital is a non-profit organization, where clinical activities run side by side with scientificresearch. The Hospital avails itself of 2.600 employees and collaborators: physicians, researchers, nurses, technicians, and volunteers, who are all contributing to the continuous progress of diagnostic methods and therapies for the achievement of higher and higher levels of healthcare. All the activities of the Hospital are carried out in accordance with Christian ethics, and humanization is a crucial aspect of its activities, which also include training and healthcare services to developing countries.The Hospital records 25,000 admissions per year, 83.000 days of day-hospital observation and more than 1.100.000 outpatient performances,