Burn patients have powerful stories to share. Some have endured painful surgeries, dressing changes and therapies to heal their wounds. They’ve overcome obstacles that affected them mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually and psychosocially. Only their scars remain as reminders of what they went through. Akron Children’s Paul and Carol David Foundation Burn Institute is changing that […]
Funding allows Palliative Care to offer adaptive footwear at no cost to Akron Children’s patients
Six-year-old Evelyn Horsfall has lived in northeast Ohio all her life but has never been able to play in the snow. This winter was different. For the first time, Evelyn played with her siblings in the snow in a pair of winter boots that stayed on securely. Evelyn, who has spastic cerebral palsy, wears leg […]