Child Life: 9 South
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Boredom is Edwina Smith’s enemy, and as child activity coordinator on the 9 South inpatient unit, she is good at chasing it away with her infectious enthusiasm and a playroom full of toys.
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Child Life: Bone Marrow Transplant Unit
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Twins Ayesha and Sufwan are patients in the Jeffrey Jay Weinberg Bone Marrow Transplant Unit. With the help of a child life specialist, they participate in fun, structured activities that help prepare them for treatment and distract them from the stresses of a long hospitalization.
Drawing Strength
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The Department of Child Life, Education and Creative Arts Therapy helps children with emotional healing while clinicians treat their medical issues.
Spotlight On: Security
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To most CHOP visitors, Security officers are the people in blue uniforms who greet you at the entrances and parking garages. But these 89 officers do so much more behind the scenes to keep patients safe.
A Complex Journey
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Rescued from Haiti with numerous health problems, Bryon, 3, was fortunate to end up with a loving family living right in CHOP’s backyard.
Into the Genetic Future
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An exciting new initiative at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is helping unlock the secrets of children’s DNA.
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.
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.