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Update from Boston Children's Hospital

We currently have one patient from the Boston Marathon tragedy:

• 7-year-old girl in fair condition
   

To Control Asthma, Start With The Home Instead Of The Child

NPR’s “Morning Edition” features a story on Boston Children’s Community Asthma Initiative (CAI), which was developed to help improve the health and quality of life of children with asthma and their families. More...

Two organs, one life saved

The Lowell Sun highlights a unique transplant conducted at Boston Children’s in 2010 to treat a young girl's extremely rare medical condition, known as mid-aortic syndrome. In the procedure, the patient received a new aorta and kidney. This is the first case to be reported where a length of aorta has been transplanted with a kidney in a child. More...

Teen Takes Artificial Heart to School as She Waits for Transplant

ABCNews.com tells the story of a 13 year-old patient who was discharged from Boston Children's with a ventricular assist device (VAD) while awaiting a heart transplant, allowing her to live a normal life outside of the hospital. The girl is the first child in North America to return to school with the device. More...

Cape girl saved by rare liver transplant

The Boston Globe features the story of an 11 year-old girl from the Cape who underwent an extremely rare liver transplant at Boston Children’s where she received an organ of a different blood type than hers in order to save her life. More…
 

From The Boston Globe: Family’s agonizing trail leads to infant’s surgery

A front page article in The Boston Globe tells the story of a seven-month old boy who underwent a complex operation at Boston Children's to treat multiple craniofacial abnormalities. More…
 

Good Morning America features Boston Children’s patient who survives freak accident

ABC’s “Good Morning America” tells the story of a Boston Children’s patient who had a pencil pierce her skull, penetrating 4 inches into her brain, when she accidentally fell using the pencil. More…
 

From The Boston Globe: Her medical hope grew within

A front page article in The Boston Globe features a 16 year-old patient who underwent a first of its kind surgical procedure in which her damaged and diseased blood vessels were stretched, providing new material to make repairs elsewhere in her body. More…
 

From The Wall Street Journal: The Future of Medicine Is Now

The Wall Street Journal reports on six medical innovations that could change the way we fight disease, including a treatment for hypoplastic left heart syndrome developed by surgeons at Boston Children’s. More…
 

Statement

December 18, 2012

Boston Children’s Hospital condemns the exploitation of children. When the hospital learned of the allegations against Dr. Richard Keller on September 13, he was immediately put on administrative leave pending results of the investigation by the US Attorney’s Office. Subsequently, Dr. Keller was terminated. We have cooperated fully with the US Attorney’s Office and all other regulatory and legal authorities.

Providing the highest level of care in a safe and appropriate environment is an absolute paramount priority for Boston Children’s Hospital.
 

Sandra L. Fenwick Named Next Chief Executive Officer and President of Boston Children's Hospital

November 29, 2012

The Board of Trustees of Boston Children's Hospital announced today the selection of Sandra L. Fenwick, President and Chief Operating Officer of Boston Children's Hospital, as the hospital's next Chief Executive Officer and President. More...
 

Statement

October 24, 2012

New England Compounding Center (NECC) is currently being investigated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the potential contamination of methylprednisolone, a steroid that it manufactures and may have resulted in fungal meningitis in more than 200 patients.

While Boston Children's Hospital and its physicians have purchased NECC products in the past, they have never purchased methylprednisolone injection, triamcinolone acetonide or cardioplegic solution, the products which have been cited in the current investigation by DPH and FDA. Boston Children's and its physicians no longer purchase any products from NECC.

Guided by our focus on patient safety, Boston Children's will continue to monitor the situation and will communicate any developments that affect our patients.

Healthcare IT News features Boston Children’s  

The September issue of Healthcare IT News highlights health information technology (IT) and telemedicine efforts at Boston Children’s Hospital. One article describes how health IT has transformed patient care at the hospital, while another features a Q&A with Chief Information Officer Dan Nigrin, MD. Read the issue’s accompanying editorial here.

Hope for children with a rare “aging” disease

Results of the first-ever clinical drug trial for children with Progeria, a rare, fatal “rapid-aging” disease, show that a drug originally developed to treat cancer is effective. More...
 

Boston Children's is atop the U.S.News Rankings

Ranked in the top 4 of every evaluated specialty, we are dedicated to innovative, compassionate and life-changing care for all children. No other pediatric hospital ranks higher. More...
 

Boston Children's named one of H&HN's Most Wired for 2012

For the ninth time since 1999, Boston Children's Hospital has been named one of Hospital & Health Network's "Most Wired" hospitals. The distinction is granted to hospitals that serve as trailblazers, using information technology (IT) to transform their organizations, displaying an advanced level of IT utilization in the areas of Infrastructure, Business & Administrative Management, Clinical Quality & Safety and Clinical Integration.

Boston Children's Hospital Joins the ALTERNATIVE QUALITY CONTRACT

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA), Boston Children’s Hospital, Children’s Physicians’ Organization and the Pediatric Physician Organization at Children’s (PPOC) today announced an agreement to a new contract that marks the first pediatric-only hospital to sign the Alternative Quality Contract (AQC). The contract includes a 0% rate increase for 2012 and modest increases below general inflation through the remainder of the three-year contract.Introduced in 2009, the AQCis a modified global payment model designed to slow the growth in health care spending and improve patient care by helping physicians and hospitals redesign their care to emphasize quality and value over volume. More...

Williams honored for Outstanding Achievement by ASGCT

Congratulations to David Williams, MD, chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology and director of Translational Research at Children's, and associate chair of Pediatric Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, who has been selected by the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy as the recipient of their 2012 Outstanding Achievement Award for his significant contributions to the field of gene and cell therapy. More...

The Boston Globe recognizes Children’s Hospital Boston as a Top Place to Work

Children’s Hospital Boston has been named one of the Top Places to Work in Massachusetts in the fourth annual employee-based survey project from The Boston Globe, ranking #9 on the large employers list.  The 2011 Globe 100 Top Places to Work list was published in the Sunday Globe on November 6. More...

NCR Picker recognizes Children’s for its commitment to improving the patient experience

NRC Picker (NRCP), a division of National Research Corporation, has selected member Children’s Hospital Boston as a recipient of its 2011 Path to Excellence award. The winners were selected from NRC Picker's extensive database of members for their performance over the last four quarters. Children’s was selected for its top ranking in the category of Children’s Hospital: Overall Rating. More...

Critical Care Units Honored for Excellence

The Children's NICU and MSICU were awarded Beacon Awards for Excellence by The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses for achieving exceptional and sustained unit performance and patient outcomes. The NICU and MSICU are the first in the U.S. to receive gold-level status. More...

From The Boston Globe: Babies enlisted in brain research

The Boston Globe reports on the sophisticated imaging techniques employed by Children's Ellen Grant, MD, and Nadine Gaab, PhD, to study the developing brain in order to learn more about dyslexia and other learning disabilities. More...

Safe, efficient method reported for creating and differentiating human pluripotent stem cells

Boston Children's Hospital researchers have discovered a new way to reprogram ordinary human cells into stem cells, using RNAs, appears safer and much more efficient than current methods- and can much more readily transform stem cells into specialized cells to treat disease. More...

From The Boston Globe: Children's zeroes in on its costs

The Boston Globe reports on the actions taken by Boston Children's Hospital to reduce its fees to private insurers and to Medicaid-managed care programs by $90 million over the last year and a half. More...

Gene Therapy Trial for "Bubble Boy" Syndrome

A new gene therapy trial for X-linked  severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID-X1), the disease popularly known as "bubble boy syndrome," is now accepting patients. The international trial, one of several gene therapy trials being developed at Boston Children's Hospital, is the first to be given the green light by the FDA for SCID-X1 since 2005, since five children developed leukemia after being treated in Paris and London. More...

Best places to work in academia

Boston Children's Hospital has been named among the Best Places to Work in Academia by The Scientist magazine. Results of the 2010 annual survey announced on June 29th rank Children's #7 among U.S. institutions.  More...

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AASM names Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders a Program of Distinction

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) has named Children's Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders as one of their Comprehensive Academic Sleep Programs of Distinction -- an honor recognizing programs that have made major strides toward becoming independent, interdisciplinary units outside of traditional divisions or departments. The Center at Children's is only the fifth institution in the U.S. to receive this recognition.

The AASM grants this five-year recognition to academic sleep programs that have demonstrated excellence though compliance with rigorous standards in the areas of clinical service, educational mission and research accomplishments.