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Take advantage of the recent changes at Children’s Hospital Boston that have created more opportunities for employees to communicate all kinds of hospital news. We want to hear about upcoming events, inspiring patient stories and news about you and your department. Spread your news today!
The home page of Children’s Today, the hospital’s new and improved intranet, is a great place to publicize recent hospital activities and news to the entire Children’s community. Got a stunning image or summary of an event held by your department? Email photos and articles to public.affairs@childrens. harvard.edu for possible inclusion as home page stories.
If you’d like to promote an upcoming event, you can enter an announcement on the scrolling announcement bar of Children’s Today. Click "Post an announcement" on the home page for more information. Announcements should provide information that will be relevant to the majority of Children’s staff and employees.
You can also get trained to post announcements on the new TVs throughout the hospital. Go online to NetLearning and sign up for Carousal Digital Messaging training to learn how to post your own messages.
Children’s has launched Thrive, a new health and science blog. If you have a passion for a pediatric health topic and want to pen a post, or have ideas for topics you think colleagues, patients, families, the media or others would be interested in, email Public Affairs.
About one in 14 fifth-grade students have been homeless at some point in their lives, suggests a population-based study of 5,147 fifth-graders funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study, published in the American Journal of Public Health in August, was conducted by Mark Schuster, MD, PhD, chief of General Pediatrics at Children’s, along with collaborators from other institutions around the country.
Interviews of students and parents in Houston, Los Angeles and Birmingham, Alabama, conducted from 2004 to 2006, revealed that 7 percent of the families had experienced homelessness. The proportion was even higheró11 percentóamongİAfrican Americanİchildren and thoseİfrom the lowest-income households. Children who had been homeless were more likely to have had an emotional, behavioral or developmental problem, to have witnessed serious violence and to have received mental health care. Schuster advises clinicians to be aware of the possibility that their patients could be homeless and in need of housing services and mental health care.
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