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Columbus Children's Hospital to go Smoke Free

Effective October 1, Columbus Childrens Hospital and all affiliated campuses will be entirely smoke free. While Childrens has been smoke free for all employees since 2004, visitors have been able to smoke in designated smoking areas.

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Community Provider Corner

• Patient Financial Assistance Program
• CAP4Kids: Free and Low-Cost Resources for the School Year
• Asthma Inhaler Patient Assistance

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Featured Physician: Roshini Abraham, PhD

Roshini Abraham, PhD, is the associate chief of Academic Affairs and founding director of the Diagnostic Immunology Laboratory in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.

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Homecare Update: Bringing Nationwide Children's Expertise Home

In recognition of National Home Care and Hospice month, Homecare is celebrating growth and their One Team approach to delivering the expertise of Nationwide Children's Hospital to the homes of patient families.

Building Momentum for School-Based Health Care

Schools and health care organizations are starting to realize they have the same goal: healthy, successful, happy, productive children. Mary Kay Irwin, EdD, senior director of School Health Services at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, shares how the two can collaborate through school-based health care.

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Nationwide Children’s Hospital Opening New Vision Center, School Health Center in Reynoldsburg, Mt. Vernon

Nationwide Children’s Hospital is opening a new school-based health center at Mount Vernon City Schools and a vision center at Reynoldsburg City Schools as part of ongoing efforts to increase access to health care for students.

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Partners for Kids, Nationwide Childrens Hospital Demonstrate Cost Savings and Quality as Pediatric ACO

A new study published in Pediatrics demonstrates the cost-saving and health care quality outcomes of the pediatric Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Partners for Kids.

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Nationwide Childrens Hospital Earns Ohio Department of Healths Healthy Ohio Breastfeeding Friendly Employer Award

Nationwide Children’s Hospital recently was honored with Ohio Department of Health’s (ODH) Healthy Ohio Breastfeeding Friendly Employer Award. Nationwide Children’s is one of 22 employers in the state to be honored by ODH, and just one of 11 to receive the award.

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Sickle Cell Treatment: What Does It Mean for Patients?

Something exciting happened in December 2023, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a gene therapy for the treatment of sickle cell disease in adult and pediatric patients 12 years and older who require regular red blood cell transfusions. Nationwide Children’s Hospital is one of a handful of facilities in the United States that is certified to have the advanced facilities and specially trained staff which are needed for the administration of the therapy.