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• Providing Meaningful Support and Solutions for Families – Celebrating Social Workers

  Licensed Social Workers are a critical part of a child/adolescent and a family’s healthcare team.

• OnDuring the COVID-19 Pandemic, How Have Child Life Specialists Helped Families Cope?

  Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, our Child Life team developed new tactics and expanded existing measures to provide support to families.

• Update on Intersex Care at Lurie Children’s and Our Sex Development Clinic

  Learn about important conversations we are having about the types of care that intersex children and youth receive at Lurie Children’s. 

• Leading the Way in Living Donor Organ Transplantation

  Thanks to living donors, many more pediatric patients who require transplantation have a chance at life.

• Intersex Care at Lurie Children’s and Our Supportive Program for a Range of Urogenital Traits (SPROUT)

  Read our updated position on Intersex Care . We have recently had several important conversations with our staff, patient advocates and community partners about our Supportive Program for a Range of Urogenital Traits (SPROUT) and the types of care Lurie Children’s offers intersex children and youth. We share a deep respect for those in our...

• Recognizing LGBTQ+ Pride Month

  Lurie Children's and our Department of Pediatrics are committed to supporting the LGBTQ+ community.

• Letting Kids be Kids: Meet Lurie Children’s Activity Coordinators

  Our activity coordinators arrange and implement programs and activities for patients of all ages and abilities.

• Stepping Up to Give Back – Patient with Brain Tumor to Participate in Aon’s Step Up For Kids

  Just five days before his seventh birthday, Michael was diagnosed with a medulloblastoma.

• Lurie Children’s Celebrates 2,000th Cochlear Implant Surgery

  Recently, Nancy Young, MD performed the 2,000th cochlear implant procedure at Lurie Children’s.

• Level Up! Lurie Children’s Nurse Donates Portable Gaming Device for Patients

  Gamer by day, nurse by night. Justin Molina, RN, Inpatient 21, has two passions – video games and nursing.

• Cal’s Angels Cycling Team Helps Fund Innovative Cancer Research

  After losing Cal to leukemia at the age of 13, Cal’s Angels have devoted themselves to carrying on his legacy by funding for children undergoing cancer treatment.

• Lurie Children’s Physician Starts Latin American Movement to Raise Child Abuse Awareness

  One week into his rotation, Dr. Rosado was certain he wanted to work in pediatric child abuse. Now, he's educating other pediatricians in his birth country. 

• How Child Life Specialists Make a Difference – Meet Becca Mitsos

  For parents, one of the most difficult parts of surgery is handing their child off to strangers. Thanks to Child Life Specialists, that road is a little easier.

• Becoming a Trauma-Informed Organization

  Learn what Lurie Children’s is doing to become a trauma-informed organization to better serve our patients, families and staff.

• Gene Therapy and Fertility Preservation Give Sisters Hope for Future

  Although Zinnia and Lainee aren’t biological sisters, they both have beta thalassemia. 

• Palliative Care – Providing On Going Support for Children with Complex Chronic Illness

  Palliative care offers an extra layer of support to ensure patients and families are receiving the best care possible that's in-line with their goals and values.