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MILWAUKEE, April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Children's Hospital of Wisconsin recently performed a rare double organ transplant to save the life of Thomas Castillo, a 15-year-old Illinois boy with complex congenital heart disease and liver failure. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120424/CG93246-a) (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120424/CG93246-b) A multidisciplinary team at Children's Hospital replaced Castillo's two organs during a 17-hour surgery. James...
CHICAGO, April 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Chicago philanthropist Ann Lurie, along with a committee of leading philanthropists and Chicago civic leaders, announced that $5.2 million was raised as part of the fundraising campaign for Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago during a Gala Preview on Friday, April 20 at Lurie Children's, 225 E. Chicago Avenue. Gala co-chairs were Lester Crown, Ann Lurie, Andrew J. McKenna, Sr., Robert S. Murley, Penny Pritzker and J....
Actress Sarah Jessica Parker and Musician Harry Connick, Jr. Headline the Event **Children's Memorial is becoming Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago on June 9, 2012** CHICAGO, April 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Chicago philanthropist, Ann Lurie, along with a committee of leading philanthropists and Chicago civic leaders, is expected to announce that $5.2 million was raised as part of the fundraising campaign for Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's...
App to improve patient experience with wayfinding to and throughout Boston Children's locations, access to patient medical records, doctor information and support services BOSTON, April 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Boston Children's Hospital today announced the launch of its new mobile application (app), Boston Children's Hospital MyWay(TM), providing patients and families with a one-stop mobile information hub for navigating the Boston Children's Hospital patient...
Marriott Foundation donates $3 million for research BOSTON, April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Boston Children's Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital today announced the inception of The Boston Center for Endometriosis, a joint undertaking to discover causes, promote prevention, and develop new treatments and cures for the disease of endometriosis. The Center is the first in the world of its kind and will serve as the premier diagnostic, treatment, research, and...
PHILADELPHIA, March 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia announces a grant of $100,000 from Verizon Foundation to launch a Telemedicine Pilot Program dedicated to providing pediatric specialty consultations to community hospitals. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120329/DC79068) "Thanks to the support of The Verizon Foundation's funding, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia will be able to embark on a Telemedicine pilot...
**Children's Memorial is becoming Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago on June 9, 2012** Actress Sarah Jessica Parker and Musician Harry Connick, Jr. Headline the Event CHICAGO, March 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Chicago philanthropist Ann Lurie, along with a committee of leading philanthropists and Chicago civic leaders, will host a gala to offer a first look at the newly-completed Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. The...
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...
