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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.
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.
Child Life: Music Therapy
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Music therapist Mike Mahoney, MA, MT-BC, offers up instruments from his cart: maracas, a drum, a keyboard. The children at the Alex Scott Day Hospital are eager to sing and play music.
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.
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.