Baystate Children’s Hospital (BCH) is the primary infectious disease center for the western Massachusetts region. Our pediatric doctors are board certified in pediatric infectious diseases – health conditions that affect kids that are caused by organisms, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites.

Complete, Compassionate Care

With the area’s only Pediatric Emergency Department as well as a Children’s Specialty Center, BCH is the place to go for expert, compassionate care for your child. We treat a wide range of diseases, including Lyme disease, HIV/AIDS, skin infections and MRSA.

Infectious diseases we evaluate and treat include:

• Antibiotic-resistant infections (including MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection)
• Bone infections (osteomyelitis)
• Difficult-to-treat infections
• Herpes virus infections
• HIV/AIDS
• Immune system issues
• Lyme disease, a bacterial infection transmitted by ticks
• Meningitis, an inflammation of the membranes around the brain and spinal cord
• Periodic fever syndromes, auto-inflammatory diseases with no infectious cause
• Recurrent skin infections
• Travel and international adoption-related illnesses