In an effort to raise awareness of the need for organ donations, a team from Swedish Medical Center and LifeCenter Northwest “Twittered” and webcast from the summit.
Pertussis – or whooping cough – cases are on the rise in some areas of the country. Infants and children who haven’t been immunized can get seriously ill if infected.
Seattle Children’s releases drawing showing what the hospital campus may look like in 2013.
“The program, called ‘continuous performance improvement,’examines every aspect of patients’ stays at the hospital, from the time they arrive in the parking lot until they are discharged . . . .”
With the weather warming up, families may be keeping windows open throughout the house to stay cool – this can be a serious safety risk for young kids.
With people turning to water activities to enjoy the summer weather, the risk of drowning is a concern. Cold waters and warm weather make for increased drowning risk.
Located near Overlake Hospital, the new 80,000-square-foot facility will house more than 15 pediatric specialty clinics, two operating rooms, urgent care, radiology and a sports therapy gym.
Dr. Kathy Sie, attending surgeon at Seattle Children’s Hospital, offers parents safety tips on button batteries
The approval will allow the 250-bed hospital to add 350 additional beds and laboratory facilities over the next 20 years.
Compromise ends a battle between the hospital and neighborhood over expansion plan.
Allow Seattle Children’s to expand, says Seattle Times
The Seattle City Council should reverse ruling of a hearing examiner who has rejected Seattle Children’s expansion plans, says Seattle Times argues in an editorial today’s paper.
The hearing examiner found that hospital’s planned expansion, which would add 1.5 million square feet of space on its Lauralhurst campus, was inappropriate [...]
By Carol Ann Campbell
August 13, 2009
NEWARK, N.J. – Fourteen-year-old Prince Jackson made a fist and banged his hand on his head, again and again. “It was like this,” he said, trying to describe the blinding pain from the tumor growing inside his head. “It hurt so much. It wouldn’t stop.”
Jackson could not read or sleep [...]
The U.S. government is making available $8.1 million for education loan repayment for nurses willing to work for two years at facilities that face a critical nurse shortages.
The funds will be offered on a competitive basis to 100 registered nurses.
In Washington state the program will offer five positions: four at the University of Washington Medical [...]
Money and medicine
KUOW looks at the salaries of Seattle’s top docs and charity care Washington non-profit hospitals give
John Ryan, a reporter for Seattle’s Public Radio affiliate KUOW, looked at how much Seattle-area hospitals, most of which enjoy the tax benefits of non-profit status, pay their top officials and how much charity care they provide.
Salaries, Ryan [...]
Stillbirth and prematurity are responsible for more deaths of children under age 5 than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.
Many parents, concerned about influenza A/H1N1 (swine flu), are bring children with mild or even no symptoms to the emergency room at Seattle Children’s, more than doubling the number of patients the staff usually sees at this time of year.
Most of these visits are unnecessary, hospital officials say, and are overburdening the emergency room’s resources.
“Most [...]
Adolescents with type 1 diabetes who use insulin pumps achieve better blood-sugar levels than do adolescents who use other methods, according to a new study.
Those using insulin pumps also required fewer hospitalizations and emergency room visits, the study found.
But even with the pump many children and teens still fail to achieve good blood-sugar control, the [...]
Seattle Children’s has produced a video and a tip sheet for parents about swine flu. The video features Dr. Danielle Zerr, medical director, Infection Control, Seattle Children’s Hospital. Additional information is available on Seattle Children’s swine flu information page.
Message from Seattle Children’s:
There are suspected cases of swine flu in the state of Washington. As a result, [...]
The University of Washington School of Medicine has been ranked 6th in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.
In the speciality categories, UW ranked:
1st in primary care, family medicine, and rural medicine
5th in women’s health
6th in pediatric and geriatric medicine
8th in internal medicine.
To learn more:
Go to the U.S. News and World Report medical school rankings.
Seattle Children’s is on track to become on of the nation’s leading pediatric research center, but first it must meet formidable challenges caused by the current economic downturn, the hospital’s CEO Dr. Thomas Hansen said Thursday.
Dr. Hansen, a neonatologist who specializes in chronic lung diseases in newborns, made the comments today at an address to [...]
[ March 14, 2009; 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. ]
Seattle Children’s Hospital will host a free “hands-on” community health fair event for families and children ages 3 to 8, on Saturday, March 14th.
At the fair, children can learn about health, safety and the hospital through many fun activities including the Teddy Bear Clinic, finger casting, a visit from the Tooth Fairy, ambulance and operating [...]
Seattle Children’s Hospital will host a free “hands-on” community health fair event for families and children ages 3 to 8, on Saturday, March 14th.
At the fair, children can learn about health, safety and the hospital through many fun activities including the Teddy Bear Clinic, finger casting, a visit from the Tooth Fairy, ambulance and operating [...]
Seattle Children’s Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics has posted a webcast of its forum on the ethics of growth attenuation in children with profound disabilities that was held last Friday, Jan. 23rd.
This issue came to the public’s attention in 2006, when doctors from Seattle Children’s reported in the journal Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine the case of [...]
The “Ashley” case will be discussed in an open forum sponsored by Seattle Children’s Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics on Friday, Jan. 23.
In 2006, doctors from Seattle Children’s reported in the journal Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine the case of a six-year old girl with profound disabilities whose parents asked doctors to prescribe [...]
Parents magazine has ranked Seattle Children’s the 13th top children’s hospital in the country.
The ranking was based on a 250-questions survey filled out by 75 children’s hospitals.
The survey asked the hospitals about such issues as survival rates, number of complex procedures performed, research studies, staff qualifications, and safeguards to prevent medical errors.
Among specialties, Seattle Children’s [...]
A conference held this July in Seattle on the ethics of genetic testing of newborns and children is now available online at UWTV’s website.
The 2008 Pediatric Bioethics Conference brought together some of the nation’s top ethicists to talk about the controversies involved in testing newborns and children for genetic conditions even when there might be [...]
Invisible Families: The homeless you don't see
They squeeze in with relatives, couch surf with friends or camp out in cars. More families are quietly becoming homeless, driven to the edge by a lack of jobs and affordable housing. The Seattle Times and its local news partners tackle the topic together. Project home
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