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Thursday, August 15th Children’s Hospital Association will host a webinar, Children's Health and Climate: A Children's Hospital Perspective, featuring Valley Children's Healthcare and Seattle Children's highlighting the work they are doing through both facilities and clinical channels to address the climate crisis. Join us at 2 pm et for this important topic. https://lnkd.in/e2yyzcuy
“If there is one thing we have learned since the pandemic, it is that you cannot separate physical health from mental health in caring for our kids. The collaborative has provided our team with access to best practices in suicide prevention and care, and the chance to take a closer look at our own systems and processes, both internally and with our community partners.” - Valley Children’s Chief Community Impact Officer, Lynne Ashbeck 💙 To learn more about this collaboration and the impact it has on our patients and community, visit the link below.
In observance of today’s World Suicide Prevention Day, Children’s Hospital Association (CHA), Cardinal Health, and Zero Suicide Institute (ZSI) celebrate early success of the Preventing Youth Suicide Collaborative, a collaborative funded by the Cardinal Health Foundation, led by CHA, and informed by ZSI’s prevention expertise. CHA’s President and CEO, Matthew Cook, said, "The work of the Preventing Youth Suicide Collaborative is setting a new standard in pediatric health care by ensuring that children who experience mental health challenges are identified early and receive the care they need. This is critical work, but our children need more. We urge Congress to prioritize the mental health of our nation’s youth by passing two bipartisan pieces of legislature: The EARLY Minds Act (H.R.7808), which would give states greater flexibility to make resources available for prevention and early intervention initiatives, and the Helping Kids Cope Act (H.R.2412), which would help bolster the pediatric mental health workforce and improve the availability of a full continuum of mental health care for kids.” To learn more about this collaboration and its impact at Phoenix Children's, Valley Children's Healthcare, and Cohen Children's Medical Center: https://lnkd.in/eVCxqbDk
On August 31, we lit our hospital purple in support of International Overdose Awareness Day 💜 In honor of this day, read a beautiful and inspiring message about grief, hope and the role each of us can play in helping end overdose from Valley Children's Director of Patient Access Lynn Horton by clicking the link below. https://lnkd.in/gsN3gi3y
Valley Children’s is excited to announce plans for “The Hill,” a vibrant, 443-acre mixed use community designed to enrich the lives of patients, families, staff and the broader community! This new development will bring together healthcare, housing, retail, recreation, office space and hospitality to benefit our patient families, staff and community - and to ensure a sustainable future for Valley Children's. To learn more about this transformative project, visit the link below. https://lnkd.in/gekN7PrS
#DYK that Valley Children’s hosts food trucks at our Madera campus for staff and patient families to enjoy? These food trucks offer staff and patient families a different variety of cuisine daily and the convenience of staying on our campus while taking a break from the inside of the hospital. This shaded area is also filled with picnic tables and free phone charging stations for staff and patient families to utilize! What is your favorite food truck to visit?🍴
#DYK Valley Children's partners with organizations to help provide care and resources to patients beyond our walls? We are a proud member of Epilepsy Alliance America, where together we help provide patients with epilepsy and their families extended resources to support them. To learn more about this partnership or to see the latest resources available to our patient families during the back-to-school season, visit https://lnkd.in/gGfqZTiX
It is back-to-school time, and our Guilds Center for Community Health recently hosted the first School Health Provider Professional Development Day with the Fresno County Office of Education and Fresno Unified School District to help prepare our local school nurses as they head back to campus! ✏️🩺🩵 More than 200 LVN’s and RN’s from more than 15 school districts throughout the Central Valley came together for a full day of training in preparation for the new 2024-2025 school year. Attendees learned about several topics including diabetes care, mental health asthma and vent care and much more to better support their students. We are proud to highlight the combined work of these school site professionals and Valley Children’s healthcare providers in further supporting our community, patients with special medical needs and each other as they return to school.
#DYK Valley Children’s has a continued partnership with Central California Blood Center? Located right next to our big red heart, Central California Blood Center has a pop-up location available for those interested in donating blood and is the perfect place to plan a visit to help support our patients. Valley Children's Pediatric Resident, Dr. Pranita Shenoy recently wrote about this important partnership and how it affects our patients, along with busting blood donation myths at our At the Heart blog. Visit the link below to read more! See you at the big red heart ❤️ https://lnkd.in/gJ7_UU3Y
When George’s Pal Quinn gets ready for the day, she takes a shower, grabs her leash and hops in the car with her mom, Shannon, to come to Valley Children’s to spend the day with all of her favorite humans! 🐾 Read more about Quinn and her human Shannon’s volunteering journey with Valley Children’s and our George’s Pals program below! https://lnkd.in/gfTBcXvy
