Child and Adolescent Health
The February 2024 opening of Intermountain Primary Children鈥檚 Hospital, Larry H. and Gail Miller Family Campus in Lehi, Utah, marks the most significant boost in children鈥檚 health care delivery in the Intermountain West in more than 100 years.
Intermountain's new pediatrics campus in Lehi, Utah,鈥
Heart health starts in the womb, according to researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, who found that babies had better heart health after birth when their mothers exercised, even moderately, throughout pregnancy.
Intermountain Health and Picterus AS, a Norwegian health technology company, are building an application using the smartphone鈥檚 camera that can determine bilirubin levels in infants accurately at home.
Chris DeRienzo, M.D., AHA鈥檚 Senior Vice President and Chief Physician Executive, discusses pediatric sepsis and what we can do to prevent, recognize and treat it.
The Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Program, part of the DanceBlue Kentucky Children鈥檚 Hospital Hematology/Oncology Clinic, held the 鈥淯nlock Your Future鈥 college and career fair targeted towards AYA patients.
O.D. Wyatt High School in Fort Worth, Texas, in January 2024 opened an on-campus grocery store, housed in a portable building and brimming with fresh produce, meat and nonperishable items for students and their families.
Michael Pitt, M.D., a pediatric hospitalist at M Health Fairview Masonic Children鈥檚 Hospital, helped create a mobile application that sends real-time notifications to patients鈥 families on when their doctors are making their rounds, creating opportunities for those families to see them.
The loss of a baby during pregnancy or delivery or within the first months after birth is its own kind of grief. Through its Community Wellness Program, Penn Medicine Princeton Health offers a space and opportunity for families to come together in a moving and dignified ceremony to share their鈥
The Children鈥檚 Hospital Association has released a replay of a recent webinar on the International Consensus Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis and Septic Shock, a new way to define sepsis in children once it has occurred.
In the latest edition of AHA's Trustee Insights newsletter, Schonay Barnett-Jones, a trustee at Children鈥檚 National Hospital in Washington, D.C., and a member of the AHA Board of Trustees and Committee on Governance, shares how board members at pediatric hospitals can help improve the health and鈥