Child and Adolescent Health
Hearts have a special meaning for Heavenleigh Weilage. For one thing, she was born on Valentine鈥檚 Day 2022. For another, she was the first child in the country to receive a pacemaker so small it鈥檚 the size of a large pill.
A case study by the AHA's Community Health Improvement network explains how Children鈥檚 Mercy Kansas City created a new model to coordinate its community health efforts and make more progress at a faster rate.
University of California Davis Health has launched a first-in-the-nation program called PATH (Promoting Accessibility To Healthcare) to improve the health care experience for children who have autism and other neurodevelopmental disabilities.
The Oklahoma Children鈥檚 Hospital Paws for Purpose program has been helping patients with cognitive, physical and emotional healing since 2017.
Advancing Health's series, 鈥淐aring for Our Kids,鈥 focuses on how pediatric hospitals are meeting the needs of their communities.
Some things run in families; for Matthew Smith and his son Turner, that鈥檚 care at Children鈥檚 Hospital of Georgia.
Shodair Children鈥檚 Hospital in Helena, Mont., has launched the Hope Campaign to reduce stigma and encourage conversations about youth mental health.
President Trump Feb. 13 signed an executive order establishing the Make America Healthy Again Commission, to be chaired by Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The commission is tasked with 鈥渋nvestigating and addressing the root causes of America鈥檚 escalating鈥
In this "Caring for Our Kids" episode, Traci Carter, program manager of Raising St. Louis, and Nicole Kozma, director of school and community outreach programs at St. Louis Children鈥檚 Hospital and BJC Community Health Improvement, discuss the scope of the Raising St. Louis program.
When parents have a child with a serious illness, all they want is for their child to get well. If that no longer becomes a possibility, often all they want is to bring their child home.