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Your Wishes Make History
On February 13th, the City of Columbus marked the close of our 200th Bicentennial Celebration with the creation of a 100-year time capsule. To be opened in 2112, the city’s Tricentennial, the capsule contained many objects of historical significance to …
Happy Valentines Day
Happy Valentines Day! You made it extra special for our patients. We asked. You delivered. A whopping 567 e-cards came in for the kids. What a difference that makes in day of a patient. Even the dogs got in on …
Share a Valentine with a Hospitalized Child
Thursday is Valentine’s Day. Help us brighten the day for children in the hospital who won’t be able to celebrate at school with their friends. Let’s open our hearts and make sure every child has a special valentine. Go here …
Liquid gold
Do you know about a critical donor opportunity to help sick and premature newborns? Just as blood donation creates a life-saving bank for people needing transfusions – did you know there is a local bank for donated breast milk? Ok …
Parents Magazine Names Nationwide Children’s One of America’s Top 10
A look behind-the-scenes of ratings and rankings. Today Parents Magazine, a trusted resource for millions of moms and dads, named Nationwide Children’s to their list of the America’s Top 10 Children’s Hospitals. Parents Magazine also recognized hospitals for expertise in …
“I felt like I was saying goodbye to my heart”
These were the words Tonya Ellis used to describe her feelings when our medical team arrived at the birth hospital just after delivery to transport her newborn baby daughter to Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Born 16 weeks too soon and weighing …
Children’s Clubhouse has a new home
A special place just for brothers and sisters When a child needs medical care the entire family is impacted including brothers and sisters. That’s why we created the Children’s Clubhouse – a special place on our campus just for pre-school …
Down on the Farm…the Freezer Farm.
The sight is impressive – 65 giant freezers, chilled by liquid nitrogen, each carrying more than 30,000 tiny pieces of precious cargo. Samples of tumor, blood and tissue collected from nearly every child (and many adults) diagnosed with cancer in …
Goin’ Green at Nationwide Children’s- A Whale of a Tale!
Wow! I just found out that in 2012, we recycled 190 Tons of trash that would have ended up in a landfill. That’s the equivalent weight of a full-grown adult Blue Whale - the largest animal on the planet. That’s a …
Up In the Air…It’s a bird…It’s a butterfly…It’s Monarch I
As you’re reading this post (if you’re reading this on January 18th) something new and exciting is coming to the skies of Columbus, Ohio. Monarch I is on its way, flying here from Shreveport, Louisiana. No, I’m not referring to …
