The power of teamwork was a common thread in our “In the Moment” posts from November. We invite you to take a glance at those you may have missed, or a second peek at those you’ve already enjoyed. 1. Samuel was ready to cheer on the Ohio State Buckeyes in his special cranial remodeling helmet. […]
Archives for November 2019
Visitor restrictions in place during respiratory season
*Visitor restrictions have been updated as of 3/12/2020. For current guidelines, please visit here.* Keeping patients safe is a #1 priority at Akron Children’s and we accomplish this in a number of ways – from limiting our patients’ exposure to infectious illnesses to preventing falls and medication errors. With respiratory virus season upon us, the […]
Joining Akron Children’s is music to new pediatric Allergist/Immunologist Dr. Perez’s ears
If Dr. Leilanie Perez Ramirez could be a character in any movie, she’d choose a musical role every time. To her, music and dancing is a great way to connect with others by communicating ideas and feelings that you just cannot express with words. But as much as she loves all types of music, Akron […]
Kelly Powell receives the Debra Lee Seiber award for nursing excellence
Congratulations to Kelly Powell, clinical case manager in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), for being named the 2019 recipient of the Debra Lee Seiber Nursing Excellence Award. The award, named for Debra Seiber a longtime nurse practitioner in our NICU at Summa who died in 2013, is presented annually to a nurse who demonstrates […]
Akron Children’s Behavioral Health program ‘saved my son’s life’
Paige Schantz’s life was picture perfect – married to her childhood sweetheart and mother of 2 healthy boys with a loving home – until one day her world turned upside down. “Everyone came downstairs preparing to head off to school like we always did and found my husband had committed suicide … just like that […]
Hospital establishes certified ostomy care program
When Shelly Begue joined the pediatric surgical team as a surgical nurse clinician in 2010 she began to develop an interest in a very specialized patient population – the hospital’s young ostomy patients. “Ostomies are created for a multitude of reasons,” Shelly said. “Some children are born with defects of the intestine or have congenital […]
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