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Melissa Graves Announced as President of The Center for Family Safety and Healing
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Center for Family Safety and Healing (TCFSH) at Nationwide Children’s Hospital has announced the appointment of Melissa Graves as its president, effective March 4, 2024.
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Study Shows Amount and Days of Opioids Prescribed at Discharge Decreased After 2017 Ohio Prescription Opioid Cap Law
In a new study, published in PLOS One, researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy, Center for Pediatric Trauma Research, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Pediatrics, Department of Orthopedics, and Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at Nationwide Children’s Hospital compared the amount of opioid analgesics prescribed to children following enactment of the Ohio Opioid Cap Law with historical controls.
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Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s “Light Up the Lawn, Light Up a Life” Makes Sparkling Return for Year Two
Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s “Light Up the Lawn, Light Up a Life” Campaign will return for its second year starting today, November 14. "Light Up the Lawn, Light Up a Life” is designed to brighten the holidays for children hospitalized at Nationwide Children’s, their families and the health care heroes caring for them.
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Nationwide Children’s Hosts Book Signing & Reading with Children’s Book Author
(COLUMBUS, Ohio) – Author Carole Mac visited Nationwide Children’s Hospital on Friday, April 21to read her children’s book The Gift of the Ladybug to two hospital patient families and kick off her donation program at the hospital.
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Nationwide Children’s and Columbus City Schools Celebrate Fort Hayes School-Based Student Health Center Grand Opening
Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Columbus City Schools announce the grand opening of a school-based student health center at Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center – part of ongoing efforts to increase access to health and mental health services for students across the community, including children who live in areas that are underserved.
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Using Machine Learning in the Electronic Medical Record to Save Lives
In a report published in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, a team from Nationwide Children's Hospital describes a machine learning tool for timely identification of hospitalized children at risk for deterioration – a worsening clinical condition with increased risk of morbidity and mortality. The tool, which is trained on disease-specific groups, promisingly outperformed the existing situational awareness program in identifying at-risk children.
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Nationwide Children’s Healthy Neighborhoods Healthy Families Receives $15.5 Million Commitment to Support Affordable Housing
Nationwide Children’s Hospital today announced a $15.5 million commitment from Franklin County Commissioners over the next three years to support affordable housing through the hospital’s Healthy Neighborhoods Healthy Families initiative.
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Fall Festival in Linden Neighborhood gives families a chance to celebrate with Healthy Neighborhoods Healthy Families
(COLUMBUS, Ohio) – Nationwide Children’s Hospital will celebrate fall and neighborhood wellness with the Linden community during a free Healthy Neighborhoods Healthy Families Fall Festival on Saturday, November 4.
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Probiotics Delivered in Biofilm State Protect the Intestines and Brain in NEC Model
Researchers at Nationwide Children’s have been working on a novel solution to prevent NEC. They have developed a novel probiotic system that harnesses the durability of biofilms to improve the administration of probiotics to patients. It has been licensed to Scioto Biosciences. Their latest study, published in Nature Scientific Reports, describes the use of a biofilm formulation of Limosilactobacillus reuteri (Lr) to prevent NEC in a piglet model.
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From Hometown to National: Launching a Groundbreaking Mental Health Movement from the Ground Up
Since its inception five years ago, The On Our Sleeves Movement for Children’s Mental Health has grown, providing free tools and learning resources for more than 11 million people across the United States to help make mental health part of the upbringing for all children. While the number of resources provided through On Our Sleeves is remarkable, so is the evolution of the organization from a homegrown local initiative to one of the nation’s largest children’s mental health movements.