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Question of the Month: June 2016

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The brand-new facility housing the CHOP Care Network South Philadelphia primary care practice represents an innovation in children’s healthcare — and will serve an impressive number of families. How many patients a year are expected to be seen at this location?

Measuring Up

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Measuring Up

CHOP patient families team up with the Trisomy 21 Program and the Down Syndrome Growing Up Study led by researchers at CHOP to measure the growth of patients with Down syndrome over a four-year period. Their findings will help provide answers to parents concerned about their children's growth.

Clearing the Air on Adenotonsillectomy

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Clearing the Air on Adenotonsilectomy

The Childhood Adenotonsillectomy Trial, led by Carole Marcus, MBBCh, evaluated the usefulness of adenotonsillectomy in reducing symptoms and improving quality of life for children with conditions related to obstructive breathing.

A Window into the Past

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Mothers and Children outside CHOP in 1890s

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, a book authored by CHOP’s president and chief executive officer, Madeline Bell, features never-before-published images and stories Bell unearthed from the Hospital’s extensive archive collection.

Shining Lights

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City Lights up CHOP Blue for the Season of Light

CHOP’s first Season of Light campaign, which raised more than $950,000, encouraged people to give hope to families of sick children, bring healing to young patients, and honor the brave and beautiful kids we’ve lost.

Helpfulness, Multiplied

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Volunteer Joe Glace entertains a patient

A partnership between the Wawa Foundation and CHOP will allow the newly named Wawa Volunteer Services to deploy more volunteers in new and innovative ways to further assist patients’ families.

A Bank that Nourishes

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CHOP Milk Bank Program - Mom and Dad with Daughter

The recently opened Mothers’ Milk Bank at CHOP allows mothers to contribute, in an important way, to the health of other babies in the N/IICU whose mothers cannot produce enough milk.

Question of the Month: May 2016

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This year marks the 20th anniversary of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Reach Out and Read program, which gives young children a foundation for success by incorporating books into pediatric care and encouraging families to read aloud together. How many books has the program given out since it began?


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