Spurred by seeing the overwhelming need during the pandemic, ER clinicians founded Family Connects to help families with needs like food and diapers.

The new hires are part of a program that offers training and career counseling to help them succeed in the professional world.

In order to keep all drivers safe on the roads, the youngest drivers must be adequately prepared for the risks they will face once they get behind the wheel. Thanks to a collaboration between Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and NJM Insurance Group (NJM), thousands of adolescent drivers have completed a virtual driving assessment (VDA) to better prepare them for navigating roads once they obtain their driver’s license.

CHOP and Penn researchers have received a $50 million grant from the NIH to study the impact of environmental influences on pregnancy and children’s health.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia announced it has received a $1 million gift from The GIANT Company to fund the expansion of its Food Pharmacy program to the Nicholas and Athena Karabots Primary Care Center in Norristown, PA and deliver much-needed services to families.

A Penn Medicine and CHOP team will seek to develop treatments for three rare, incurable genetic diseases with the help of a $26 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

The Savetts are not a patient family at CHOP, yet they wanted to do something when their daughter, Rachel, died suddenly 23 years ago from anaphylactic shock.

The Wawa Foundation brings the Coffee and Care Cart to CHOP’s Middleman Family Pavilion.

When families are faced with the loss of a child, CHOP is there.

From the time she was a high school student in Nigeria, Ruth Abaya, MD, MPH, wanted to be a physician. She earned a medical degree from Northwestern University and completed a residency at Boston Children's Hospital before fellowship training at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.