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This spring, Akron Children’s will consolidate its three Medina offices into a larger, 32,000-square-foot building at 3778 Medina Road.
The new Akron Children’s Health Center at the Summa Health Medina Medical Center will offer pediatric primary care and specialty services such as allergy and immunology, cardiology, dermatology, rehab services, orthopedics and sports medicine. In its first year, the Medina Health Center will serve more than 9,000 patients.
Akron Children’s and Cincinnati Children’s have partnered for more than a decade to care for patients in need of kidney transplants. In 2024, the two organizations expanded the collaboration to include ear, nose and throat; liver disease; bone marrow transplants; and now, cardiology.
As part of the collaboration, the Akron Children’s and Cincinnati Children’s teams will meet regularly to discuss patients with complex heart conditions and create customized treatment plans. This includes children with new heart-related diagnoses, as well as congenital heart defects detected during testing before a baby is born.
In rare instances when a patient treated at the Akron Children’s Heart Center has a condition beyond the surgical scope of Akron Children’s, the family has the option for surgery at Cincinnati Children’s – all follow-up care provided by the cardiologists and nurses in Akron Children’s network who the family have come to know and trust since diagnosis.
Tara Karamlou, MD, of Cincinnati Children’s, a highly skilled pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon, will work alongside Akron Children’s surgeons to support continued growth in the surgical program.
From inspiring stories, to medical miracles, the More childhood, pleaseTM magazine will make you appreciate those precious 6,574 days of childhood.
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