Hopkins Children’s On USN&WR List of Best Children’s Hospitals
Hopkins Children’s Ranks in the Top Ten of Nine Specialties
Johns Hopkins Children’s Center is among the top ten children’s hospitals in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of American children’s hospitals. This year, the 2009 America's Best Children's Hospitals included an “Honor Roll” of 10 pediatric hospitals in no particular order that ranked in all 10 specialties. Hopkins Children’s is among the ten best. In the specialties’ rankings, Hopkins Children’s earned high marks in several categories, including number three in Diabetes & Endocrine Disorders, number three in Neurology & Neurosurgery and number four in Urology.
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Scrapbooking for Hopkins Children's: A Mother's Blog and Tale
Focuses on Journey with her Premature Son
Asked to talk about her experience as the mother of a child hospitalized for nine months at Hopkins Children’s, Kate Blue instead offered her scrapbook. With her infant son Brandon finally out of Hopkins and home in Elkridge, Md., Blue had found solace in carefully composing, in paper and photographs, a visual history of his premature birth and the months of care in Hopkins neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). “It was a long journey for all of us,” she says of those months, five years ago. “Working on the book was a great way to de-stress."
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Mock CPR Drills in Kids Show Many Residents Fail In Key Skills, Speed
"Staged” CPR drills quickly close the training gaps
Research from the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center exposes alarming gaps in training hospital residents in “first response” emergency treatment of staged cardiorespiratory arrests in children, while at the same time offering a potent recipe for fixing the problem. The research was conducted just before the release of the 2005 American Heart Association’s practice guidelines focusing on strengthening first-response skills, which suggests that at least some of the findings in the study may paint a grimmer picture than current reality, researchers say. And changes already made to the Hopkins resident training program beginning in 2005 have resulted significant improvement, they add.
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June 17, 2009
Concerns About Healthcare “Gaps” Too Often Leave Out Children
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June 05, 2009
HIV Antibody Tests Unreliable For Early Infections In Teens
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June 01, 2009
Children of Adults with Anxiety Disorder May Need Help Too
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June 01, 2009
Hopkins Children's Neurosurgeons Warn Not to Take Head Injuries in Sports Lightly
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May 14, 2009
Old Diabetes Drug Teaches Experts New Tricks
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May 05, 2009
Doctors Should Minimize Scans That Expose Young Patients to Radiation
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