Ask Dr. Bell: Planning for a Healthy Holiday
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Louis Bell, MD, chief of the Division of General Pediatrics at CHOP shares the latest in medical thinking on an important topic: healthy eating.
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Child Life: The Smile Specialists
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Being in the hospital can be no fun — until the Child Life, Education and Creative Arts Therapy Department shows up bearing toys, art supplies, musical instruments, video games and much more.
Child Life: 4 East/4 South
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It's Kim Sedgwick's job to help kids cope. As a child life specialist, she helps by explaining at an age-appropriate level what is going to happen during surgery.
Child Life: Art Therapy
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For children in pain or who need to sit still for hours for a procedure, art therapy offers them an outlet to express their creativity and a distraction from their medical condition.
Child Life: Pediatric Sedation Unit
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Sedation is common before procedures and scans such as an MRI, and as a child life specialist in Radiology’s Sedation Unit, Melanie Hoynoski is there to prepare kids on what to expect.
Teaching Program
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The Hospital School Program at CHOP helps 300 patients each year from kindergarten through 12th grade keep up with their class work while in the Hospital.
2013 GI, Hepatology and Nutrition Stewardship Report
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In the latest report from CHOP’s Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, we highlight the unrivaled care our clinicians provide and the groundbreaking research that is helping us better understand and treat children with liver and digestive disorders.
Spotlight On: Clinical Laboratories
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The clinical laboratories at CHOP perform 2.1 million tests every year, or an average of 5,700 every single day, around the clock. The work done in these labs has significant impact — about 70 percent of diagnoses made at CHOP are based on lab results.
Ask Dr. Bell: Standing Up to Bullying
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Stephen Leff, PhD, a psychologist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, describes physical bullying, social bullying and cyberbullying and how parents can recognize the signs of a child who is being bullied.
Building Hope
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If you've visited CHOP's Main Hospital recently, you may have noticed a giant structure of steel beams rising across the street. In 2015, CHOP will open the doors on the nation’s most state-of-the-art pediatric outpatient care facility: the Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care.