St. Louis Children’s Hospital

St. Louis Children's Hospital has awarded fifty people with the distinguished President's Volunteer Service Award, a national honor in recognition of volunteer service. ... more

On Tuesday at 1:30 p.m., St. Louis Children's Hospital broke ground on its $80 million, seven-story building expansion project. The hospital expansion is part of a $120 million investment in the campus by St. Louis Children's Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine. ... more

At less than 4 months of age, Evan Wells was the first patient at St. Louis Children’s Hospital to receive a heart transplant from a donor with a different blood type. It’s called an ABO-incompatible heart transplant. Evan has type O blood and received a heart from a donor with type A blood. This rare procedure took place on August 31, and Evan is currently listed in critical but stable and improving condition in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). ... more

At less than four months of age, Damaris Ochoa is the youngest patient in the world to receive a pacemaker for resynchronization therapy. The device was implanted at St. Louis Children’s Hospital (SLCH). ... more

Although they may not strike until middle age or later, heart attack and stroke – two of the nation’s top three killers – are diseases that begin in childhood, according to Gautam K. Singh, M.D., director of the Preventive Cardiology Clinic at St. Louis Children’s Hospital (SLCH), and associate professor in pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine. ... more

Karen Crow knows what she’s talking about when it comes to managing the Family-Centered Care Program at St. Louis Children’s Hospital (SLCH). She spent five months in the neonatal intensive care unit at SLCH with her critically ill daughter, volunteered in the ICU and served on a parents/staff committee formed to improve the unit before being appointed the first coordinator of the program last year. ... more

St. Louis Children’s Hospital, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, and Washington University in conjunction with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, will host its first live Virtual Patient Education Day for people with cystic fibrosis (CF). “CF Nutrition: News You Can Use” will focus on how a strong nutrition regimen can make a difference in the lives of people with CF. Fundamentals, practical tips and research on nutrition and CF will be presented. People with CF, their parents, family members and caregivers are encouraged to join and to ask questions of the expert panel via e-mail. The live Web cast will take place on June 25 at8 p.m. CDT (9:00 p.m. EDT, 7:00 p.m. MDT and 6:00 p.m. PDT). ... more

St. Louis Children’s Hospital is one of seven centers in the United States participating in a phase one clinical trial of a new device to close defects involving the membranous or perimembranous ventricular septum. Dr. David Balzer, director of the hospital’s Cardiac Catheterization Lab and WUSM associate professor of pediatrics, is implanting St. Louis’s first Amplatzer perimembranous VSD occluders, one of only 30 devices implanted in the nation. "Assuming we receive FDA approval, we’ll move to phase two of the trial, which will greatly expand the number of patients who can receive the device," explains Dr. Balzer. ... more

St. Louis Children’s Hospital is among the top pediatric hospitals in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report ... more

Dr. Thomas Ferkol has a mission in life: To push the life expectancy of children with cystic fibrosis (CF) "off the map." ... more