After a year of managing a brain cancer diagnosis, dozens of surgeries and relentless medical treatments, Cerriana (14) of Alliance was hopeful the worst was behind her. When she learned her cancer was back, she didn’t know if she had the strength to do it all again, but she knew she had something to say […]
Nicole Robinson honored by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Nicole Robinson, narrative medicine coordinator, was recently honored with the Humanities Award from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine for her work advancing the relationship between humanities and palliative care and using the discipline to improve end-of-life care through community and professional education. Nicole works under the auspices of the Haslinger Pediatric Palliative […]
Dr. Friebert receives national award for leadership in palliative care medicine
Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Friebert, director of the Haslinger Family Pediatric Palliative Care Division, for receiving the Project on Death in America Palliative Medicine Community Leadership Award from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM). Dr. Friebert will receive the award at AAHPM’s Annual Assembly in San Diego, Calif., in March. “Palliative care […]
Family centered care enhances partnerships, builds trust
Akron Children’s Hospital doesn’t just promise to treat each child as if its own, it’s the foundation as to how our hospital leaders, providers and staff interact and care for each and every patient. Akron Children’s incorporates family centered care, bringing together patients, families and providers to form a working partnership in the planning, delivery […]
Palliative Care hosts pioneering physician from Czech Republic
We were grateful to host Monika Němcová, MD, who works for Rare Diseases Czech Republic, a patient organization there. She leads a grant-funded project to integrate palliative care into the complex care of patients with rare diseases. She is currently assessing the situation in the Czech Republic, looking at how patients with rare diseases, families […]
‘Healing Literally’ comes alive in baby Hazel’s memory
Today would have been the 7th birthday of their daughter, Hazel, but Emily and John McKenna, of Stow, took a sad song and made it better. They marked the day by making a donation of more than 400 children’s books to Akron Children’s in her memory, bringing their young children and grandparents along to reunite […]
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