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When Roche Brothers stores decided to Go Green, they took Children's with them. The supermarket chain now gives a five cent rebate every time shoppers use their recyclable grocery bag. While many grocery retailers allow shoppers to pocket the rebate, Roche Bros. gives them another option: donating it to Children's. Those nickels will add up—with an anticipated $50,000 annual donation to the hospital. Roche Bros. supported the hospital in another way by sponsoring NSTAR's Walk for Children's. In addition to forming an employee walk team, they provided giveaways on walk day. Visit your local Roche Bros. to stay green and support the hospital.
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Hot air balloon icons flew onto the walls of 63 Wal-Marts and Sam's Clubs through out Mass. and N.H., each representing someone thankful for Children's. They are part of Wal-Mart's national challenge: to raise $10 million in six weeks through Children's Miracle Network (CMN). For every customer who donates $1 to Children's while checking out, an icon is put on the wall. The Boston regional Stores surpassed their $180,000 goal, raising more than $200,000. North Oxford's Wal-Mart raised more than any other store nationwide: $31,000.
Children's is one of 170 pediatric hospitals across North America supported by CMN's efforts. Locally, celebration of this good work started in May with broadcasts of patient and hospital staff interviews on XM satellite radio and an event at the Plymouth Wal-Mart to thank customers and workers. New England stores have raised nearly $5 million for Children's during the past six years.
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Michael Rich, MD, MPH, director of the Center on Media and Child Health, delivered the keynote address at the PointSmart.ClickSafe. Summit on Children's Online Safety and Literacy in Washington, D.C. His keynote focused on what media teach young people about themselves and their health and how media can be used to promote the physical and mental health of children and adolescents.
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Across New England, folks have shot baskets, got haircuts and had pies smushed in their faces for Children's. Fifty people attended an event Children's hosted to honor them for turning these and other fun activities into fundraisers at the first Community Fundraisers Recognition Reception. They raised a collective $1.5 million for the hospital and had a blast doing it. Interested in organizing a fundraiser for your department or in honor of someone who was treated at Children's? Contact Angela Freitas at ext. 5-8289 or angela.freitas@chtrust.org.
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Evelyn Berde's new artwork, "Four Seasons," which she created for the hospital's chapel, is named for the physical and emotional changes that employees, families and patients all go through while at Children's. The finished piece is 12 feet long and 6 feet high and topped with wooden triangles (symbolizing goals) and round crystal beads (symbolizing clarity). Two smaller versions of the piece will be used at evens throughout the hospital and one will be permanently on display on Bader 5. "We worked with Evelyn and she created something truly wonderful—even more than what we had imagined," says rabbi Susan Harris, MHL.
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This summer, our Waltham location opened the Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation Center (PPRC) to treat patients with complex regional pain syndrome through intensive rehabilitation provided by a team of physicians, psychologists and physical and occupational therapists. This is the largest and most comprehensive stand-alone day hospital program of its kind in the country.
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The Environmental Services Department is taking Exceptional Care Exceptional Service to the next level with two new cards that housekeeping will leave in patient rooms. One card reads: "During Your Stay at Children's Hospital Boston, our pledge is to provide Exceptional Care and Exceptional Service. Our Environmental Services Team will make every effort to ensure that you were satisfied with our Exceptional Service pledge. Should your room require additional attention, you may contact us by dialing 617-355-7773 or ext. 5-7773 from Children's Hospital Boston house phone." The second card alerts patients and their families when housekeeping has cleaned their room.
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The Center for Families worked with Walk Boston, the state's principal pedestrian organization, to create new walking brochures for patients, families and staff. The brochure includes a detailed map with specific directions to local attractions like Fenway park, playgrounds, puppet theaters and museums.
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Children's annual service for patients, A Time to Remember, was held May 29. Staff members, volunteers, patients and families joined together to celebrate the lives of patients who have died at Children's in the past year.
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Fourteen-year-old Emma Nichols donated 1,500 books to Children's Booking It in the Waiting Room Program, founded by Jessica Henderson Daniel, PhD, ABPP, associate director of the Leadership Education in Adolescent Health Training Program in the Division of Adolescent Medicine. Nichols collected the books as part of her Bat mitzvah fundraising project. Daniel and Nichols' love for reading spurred the donation, which allows Children's adolescent patients to take home and keep any of the books in the waiting room.
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Congratulations to the Children's July Blood Donor of the Month, George Pratt.
Pratt began giving blood in 1984 when his son had surgery at Children's. He found Children's Blood Donor Center to be much friendlier than the places where he'd donated at in the past. "There's no greater expression of love for someone you don't know, a child and their family, than donating blood," he says. "This is not about me; it's about the gift of life."
After years of donating whole blood, George began donating double red cells. Double red cells, or 2RBC, involves the donor being hooked up to an apheresis machine that removes two units of red cells while giving the donor his or her platelets. This type of donation is important because it is better for patients to receive transfusions from the least number of donors possible. Double red cells are a great way for people who live far away to give the most to our patients at Children's. "I am able to donate six pints a year, but I only make the commute three times and it's more beneficial to the recipients than a whole blood donation," says Pratt. For instance, cardiac patients require many red cell transfusions and receiving a double unit is much easier on these young children. "I've played sports all my life, basketball, softball, it doesn't compare to that emotional high you get from giving blood," says Pratt. "These kids are so much more courageous than I am."
If you're interested in donating 2RBC, or would like more information donating blood, call the Blood Donor Center at ext. 5-6677.
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neurology doctors at our Weymouth office and treat 4,000 patients
car seats distributed to Martha Eliot Health Center (MEHC) families in 2007
cases of Otitis media (inflammation of the middle ear) treated by Children's physicians in the Caritas Norwood Hospital ED last year
medical students trained per year by Children's physicians at Caritas Norwood Hospital
Caritas Christi hospitals in the Children's network
community residents, patients and staff work together at MEHC on violence prevention efforts
bike helmets distributed to children during MEHC's 2007 Summer Safety Fair
Peabody employee family members who completed nursing school this year
grandchildren are members of our Peabody staff's families (not all in one family!)
operation rooms are at our Waltham site
outpatient visits in Waltham in FY 2007
specialty services along with 15 ancillary services are offered in Waltham
surgeries in Lexington in FY 2007
years Children's has seen patients at our Lexington site
Outpatient Visits in Peabody in FY 2007
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