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By LocalHealthGuide on February 10th, 2010
Children’s and Laurelhurst neighbors strike deal on hospital’s expansion plans
Compromise ends a battle between the hospital and neighborhood over expansion plan.
Category: Seattle Children's
By admin on August 14th, 2009
Health Stories in the News – Aug. 14
Allow Seattle Children’s to expand, says Seattle Times
The Seattle City Council should reverse ruling of a hearing examiner who has rejected Seattle Children’s expansion plans, says Seattle Times argues in an editorial today’s paper.
The hearing examiner found that hospital’s planned expansion, which would add 1.5 million square feet of space on its Lauralhurst campus, was inappropriate [...]
By admin on August 13th, 2009
For Dying and Seriously Ill Children, Hope For Better Care
By Carol Ann Campbell
August 13, 2009
NEWARK, N.J. – Fourteen-year-old Prince Jackson made a fist and banged his hand on his head, again and again. “It was like this,” he said, trying to describe the blinding pain from the tumor growing inside his head. “It hurt so much. It wouldn’t stop.”
Jackson could not read or sleep [...]
By admin on August 12th, 2009
$13.5 million in loan repayments for nurses willing to work in facilities facing shortages or to teach
The U.S. government is making available $8.1 million for education loan repayment for nurses willing to work for two years at facilities that face a critical nurse shortages.
The funds will be offered on a competitive basis to 100 registered nurses.
In Washington state the program will offer five positions: four at the University of Washington Medical [...]
By Michael McCarthy on July 15th, 2009
Sports concussion program opens at Harborview
Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center has opened a new center to evaluate young athletes who have had head injuries and provide training to teachers, coaches, parents and others involved in school sports on how to prevent, assess and treat concussions.
The new center, called the UW Medicine/Seattle Children’s Sports Concussion Program, was launched to help schools and [...]
By admin on July 13th, 2009
Health in the news – July 13
Money and medicine
KUOW looks at the salaries of Seattle’s top docs and charity care Washington non-profit hospitals give
John Ryan, a reporter for Seattle’s Public Radio affiliate KUOW, looked at how much Seattle-area hospitals, most of which enjoy the tax benefits of non-profit status, pay their top officials and how much charity care they provide.
Salaries, Ryan [...]
By Michael McCarthy on May 09th, 2009
International experts meet in Seattle to tackle stillbirth and deaths due to prematurity
More than 200 health experts from around the world are meeting this weekend in Seattle to tackle the global problem of stillbirth and infant death due to prematurity.
Every year there are more than 3 million stillbirths and another 1 million infant deaths due to complications of premature birth worldwide, said Dr. Craig Rubens, a professor [...]
By admin on May 02nd, 2009
Children with mild flu symptoms overcrowding Seattle Children’s emergency room
Many parents, concerned about influenza A/H1N1 (swine flu), are bring children with mild or even no symptoms to the emergency room at Seattle Children’s, more than doubling the number of patients the staff usually sees at this time of year.
Most of these visits are unnecessary, hospital officials say, and are overburdening the emergency room’s resources.
“Most [...]
By admin on May 02nd, 2009
Adolescents using insulin pumps achieve better blood sugar levels, but diabetes control still poor
Adolescents with type 1 diabetes who use insulin pumps achieve better blood-sugar levels than do adolescents who use other methods, according to a new study.
Those using insulin pumps also required fewer hospitalizations and emergency room visits, the study found.
But even with the pump many children and teens still fail to achieve good blood-sugar control, the [...]
By admin on April 30th, 2009
Swine flu: Seattle Children’s advice to parents
Seattle Children’s has produced a video and a tip sheet for parents about swine flu. The video features Dr. Danielle Zerr, medical director, Infection Control, Seattle Children’s Hospital. Additional information is available on Seattle Children’s swine flu information page.
Message from Seattle Children’s:
There are suspected cases of swine flu in the state of Washington. As a result, [...]
By admin on April 24th, 2009
UW School of Medicine ranked among top 10 medical schools by U.S. News & World Report
The University of Washington School of Medicine has been ranked 6th in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.
In the speciality categories, UW ranked:
1st in primary care, family medicine, and rural medicine
5th in women’s health
6th in pediatric and geriatric medicine
8th in internal medicine.
To learn more:
Go to the U.S. News and World Report medical school rankings.
By admin on March 19th, 2009
Hospital CEO outlines bold ambitions, formidable challenges for Seattle Children’s
Seattle Children’s is on track to become on of the nation’s leading pediatric research center, but first it must meet formidable challenges caused by the current economic downturn, the hospital’s CEO Dr. Thomas Hansen said Thursday.
Dr. Hansen, a neonatologist who specializes in chronic lung diseases in newborns, made the comments today at an address to [...]
By admin on February 25th, 2009
Children’s Health Fair
[ March 14, 2009; 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. ]
Seattle Children’s Hospital will host a free “hands-on” community health fair event for families and children ages 3 to 8, on Saturday, March 14th.
At the fair, children can learn about health, safety and the hospital through many fun activities including the Teddy Bear Clinic, finger casting, a visit from the Tooth Fairy, ambulance and operating [...]
By admin on February 25th, 2009
Seattle Children’s to host Health Fair – March 14
Seattle Children’s Hospital will host a free “hands-on” community health fair event for families and children ages 3 to 8, on Saturday, March 14th.
At the fair, children can learn about health, safety and the hospital through many fun activities including the Teddy Bear Clinic, finger casting, a visit from the Tooth Fairy, ambulance and operating [...]
By admin on January 29th, 2009
Children’s Webcast: Growth attenuation in children with profound disabilities
Seattle Children’s Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics has posted a webcast of its forum on the ethics of growth attenuation in children with profound disabilities that was held last Friday, Jan. 23rd.
This issue came to the public’s attention in 2006, when doctors from Seattle Children’s reported in the journal Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine the case of [...]
By admin on January 14th, 2009
Public forum on growth attenuation in children with profound disabilities
The “Ashley” case will be discussed in an open forum sponsored by Seattle Children’s Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics on Friday, Jan. 23.
In 2006, doctors from Seattle Children’s reported in the journal Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine the case of a six-year old girl with profound disabilities whose parents asked doctors to prescribe [...]
By admin on December 30th, 2008
Seattle Children’s ranked 13th top children’s hospital in U.S.
Parents magazine has ranked Seattle Children’s the 13th top children’s hospital in the country.
The ranking was based on a 250-questions survey filled out by 75 children’s hospitals.
The survey asked the hospitals about such issues as survival rates, number of complex procedures performed, research studies, staff qualifications, and safeguards to prevent medical errors.
Among specialties, Seattle Children’s [...]
By admin on November 04th, 2008
When are genetic tests on infants ethical? – webcast
A conference held this July in Seattle on the ethics of genetic testing of newborns and children is now available online at UWTV’s website.
The 2008 Pediatric Bioethics Conference brought together some of the nation’s top ethicists to talk about the controversies involved in testing newborns and children for genetic conditions even when there might be [...]
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