When crisis hits, one truth stands firm at Akron Children’s Hospital: Our patients still need us. As the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic reached the community, Akron Children’s immediately went into action to expand the hospital’s current telehealth efforts, increasing remote access to health care for patients and their families. Now through the generosity of […]
Career Launch: donors support early success and plans for expansion
For those who haven’t heard about Career Launch yet, it’s a program designed to assist our entry-level employees and members of the local community in developing health care careers and increasing their earning potential, while filling the hospital’s hiring needs. We are partnering with area colleges to provide a mix of classroom learning, hands-on practicums […]
Schroth Method aims to reduce need for surgery in scoliosis patients
In July 2019, Melanie Tamulewicz took her 9-year-old daughter, Elle, in for what she thought would be a routine well visit with pediatrician Dr. Cheryl Markle. Instead of being sent on their way with a ‘see you next year,’ the Tamulewiczs left with a referral to one of Akron Children’s spine specialists. “When Dr. Markle […]
Year of the Nurse 2020
When the World Health Organization (WHO) declared 2020 as the Year of the Nurse and Midwife, they did so to celebrate what would have been the 200th birthday of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing. At the time they had no idea the COVID-19 pandemic would be sweeping the globe in early 2020, and […]
Akron Children’s celebrates patient safety milestone
A winning streak is often associated with sporting events, but Akron Children’s has been celebrating some record-breaking milestones of a different kind – patient safety. Specifically, the hospital has been hitting it out of the park when it comes to preventing central line infections. Known as CLABSI in the hospital setting, central line associated blood […]
Two moms united as their babies with failed kidneys beat the odds
Carlla Detwiler and Patricia Lopp were strangers brought together by unimaginable adversity of carrying babies who had no working kidneys. Both women were advised to consider terminating their pregnancies, or prepare for the possibility that their babies would die shortly after birth. Newborns with non-functioning kidneys have difficulty surviving because their lungs need amniotic fluid […]
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