Children's Hospital Boston LogoChildren's News Online

best viewed in internet explorer | 01.31.03      
Photo of Children's Hospital Boston
Current Issue
Features
News
Notables
Gratitudes
Past Issues
Publications
Media Watch





 
News Notes
 



Employees

Rapid rail program adds backup plan to benefits



Heard in the halls

How do you get rid of stress?

>> send us your answer

 

Do you have News? Send us e-mail

 

>> children's website

       >> press room

       >> send us e-mail



 

Day in the life: Marjorie O'Kane

n an institution that moves and grows as fast as Children’s does, Marjorie O’Kane has been a model of constancy. But after delaying her retirement for two years to heed the call of duty, this 43-year Children’s employee who’s served as executive assistant to the president for over two decades retired from the hospital at the end of January.

FULL STORY

 

In This Issue


Web opens window to the world
Thanks to a project that gives patients access to the Internet right in their rooms, patients and families on 6 West can now be in better touch with friends and family, stay more connected to schoolwork, and enjoy computer games and other downloads...

Children’s ranked in Child magazine's Top 10
In its February issue, Child magazine names Children’s Hospital Boston one of the 10 best pediatric hospitals in the United States—yet another public recognition of the top-notch care provided here at Children’s...

Matter of heart
Children’s recently installed automated external defibrillators in five hospital locations. The virtually foolproof devices allow almost anyone to provide emergency assistance to an adult who suffers cardiac arrest...

Keeping King's dream alive
Children’s celebrated Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Jan.16 with a special program in Enders Auditorium and also honored Vivian Barringer, applications specialist in ISD, and Shari Nethersole, MD, a pediatrician in the PHA, as Children’s 2003 Black Achievers...

Gratitudes
...the night before you operated on Matthew for the first time, you explained to us that given the severity of his defect he wouldn’t have survived five years earlier. Every day we have him in our lives we are truly blessed for all you’ve given us....

Making a connection
Daryn Liu is an 18-year-old high school senior who volunteered on 9 East and CAT/CR at Children’s Hospital last summer. As part of a class project, he wrote this essay about his experiences....

 

New in
Media Watch:

New computer program can track bioterror

 

 

In other Children's publications:

Acupuncture aids Children's patients

 

 

Also in
Children's News:

How do you get rid of stress?

 

Current Issue | Features | News | Notables | Gratitudes | Past Issues | Publications | Media Watch

Children's News is published biweekly by the Department of Public Affairs
for Children's Hospital Boston employees, staff, volunteers and visitors.



© 2003 Children's Hospital Boston. All rights reserved.