As we welcome the New Year, we look back to our most engaging stories on HopkinsAllChildrens.org in 2021. From honoring staff achievements to celebrating patient successes, we are proud to share these stories of victory and progress.
Born prematurely at only 23 weeks gestation and weighing 1 pound, 0.6 ounces, baby Ezra and his family found the care they needed from our team in the neonatal intensive care unit. One year later, he's celebrating his first birthday.
The team has prepared a game plan for this day. Everyone has a role, a position to play. Each must execute to achieve success. A football team on the brink of a championship? No, this is a cardiac surgery team repairing a child’s heart.
The National Resident Matching Program has announced who will join the next class of residents in July 2021.
The resilience and adaptability demanded of this year’s graduating class has never been seen before. These residents learned amid physical distancing requirements that limited rounding, influenced interactions with patients and families, and turned in-person training opportunities into video conferences.
When 11-year-old Timmy had a stroke, doctors said he was at risk of having another. Interventional cardiologist James Thompson, M.D., offered hope in the form of a procedure that made Timmy the youngest person ever to benefit from a new technology.
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Posted on Aug 11, 2022 in Research
Members of the Center for Pediatric Data Science and Analytics Methodology in the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Institute for Clinical & Translational Research presented three research projects at the the 44th Annual International Conference of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. These studies focused on patient social needs, predicting seven-day hospital readmissions, and pediatric patient heart transplantation survival.
Posted on Aug 10, 2022 in General News
The Fetal Care Program at Johns Hopkins All Children’s offers coordinated personalized care for complex and high-risk pregnancies from before birth through delivery and into follow-up care. It brings together whatever combination of specialists needed for the fetal anomaly or condition being treated. When the Fetal Care team met with Becca, Michael and the gestational carrier, Becca wasn’t sure how it would go.
Posted on Aug 09, 2022 in General News
Kei’moni, who recently turned 12, played basketball and football until injuries sent him to the Sports Medicine program at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida, the Tampa Bay area’s first comprehensive pediatric sports medicine program. Along the way, Kei’moni learned his persistent knee pain wasn’t just because of hits on the field. It was because he was born without anterior cruciate ligaments (ACLs) in both knees.