Latest St. Louis Children's Hospital Stories
TAMPA, Fla., March 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- This week, doctors and nurses at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital handed over their white coats and stethoscopes to a group of very special caregivers - hospitalized kids. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120321/DC74451) Becoming "Doctors for a Day," pediatric patients switched roles with their caregivers and treated pretend illnesses and broken bones. Their patients (hospital team members) were treated on gurneys...
PHILADELPHIA, March 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have developed a faster way to measure the effectiveness of the rapid response systems that identify and emergently treat children who suddenly and unexpectedly become critically ill while hospitalized in non-intensive care settings. Cardiac and respiratory arrests--the outcomes traditionally used to measure rapid response system effectiveness--are rare in children. Studies...
CLEVELAND, March 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- UH Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital is one of 34 children's hospitals in the country participating in a national effort to improve the quality of care and improve patient safety in pediatric hospitals in the form of a Hospital Engagement Network (HEN). The network officially launched on March 15, 2012 in Columbus, Ohio, at a kick-off meeting that included CEOs, individual hospital board members, clinical leaders and others from all 34...
PHILADELPHIA, March 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Approximately 1.4 million children and adults in the United States are alive today with congenital heart defects. Juliette Faughnan of Newtown, Pa. yesterday joined Yuli Kim, M.D. director of the Philadelphia Adult Congenital Heart Center, a joint program between The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Stephanie Fuller from The Children's Hospital of...
HOUSTON, Feb. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Simulation Center at Texas Children's Hospital has begun providing Pediatric Simulation Training for Emergency Pre-hospital Providers (Pedi-STEPPs) to members of the Houston Fire Department (HFD) EMS. A grant from the Cullen Trust for Healthcare, as well as a community benefit donation from Texas Children's Hospital will allow this innovative training to be offered free of charge to the City for 500 firefighters over the...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Feb. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida's children's hospitals are facing tens of millions of dollars in funding cuts under the Senate and House budget proposals that seriously erode their ability to care for the state's sick and injured children, a group of parents, hospital leaders and caregivers warned today. The state's 14 children's hospitals are disproportionately impacted by the Medicaid cuts being proposed by both the Senate and House, because these hospitals...
HOUSTON, Feb. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Physicians, researchers and a nurse from the Renal Center at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston received prominent acclaim during the 32nd( )Annual Conference on Dialysis (ADC) held Feb. 26 through 28, in San Antonio, Texas. The conference, sponsored by the University of Missouri-Columbia, convened an international group of thousands of practitioners and researchers to discuss current developments in the field of renal replacement therapies....
Medical Professionals from Around the World Gather in Orlando to Present Research Updates, Discuss Patient Management from Fetus Through Adulthood PHILADELPHIA and ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An international group of almost 1000 medical experts gathers this week to discuss the most current treatments for children with heart disease. Affecting about a million children born each year throughout the world, congenital heart disease is the most common...
NAPERVILLE, Ill., Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The first Ronald McDonald Family Room in the State of Illinois opens today at Edward Hospital in Naperville. The Family Room was developed through a partnership between the Edward Foundation, the hospital's fundraising arm, and Ronald McDonald House Charities® of Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana (RMHC®-CNI). (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120221/CG57249) The nearly 2,000-square foot Ronald McDonald Family Room is a...
BOSTON, Feb. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The first study to characterize a cohort of U.S. children with diagnosed gender identity disorder, led by researchers at Children's Hospital Boston, documents significant mental health risks as children struggle with strong feelings of being born "in the wrong body." Findings appear in the March 2012 Pediatrics (published online February 20). The study, led by endocrinologist Norman Spack, M.D., at Children's Hospital Boston, in...
