Lincoln is serving up smiles — and COOKIES! — thanks to his friends in our Innovation Kitchen. 🍪✨ He and his family are filling their days with fun activities around the hospital while he waits for a heart transplant. Big thanks to our own Chef Sarah, who’s using her culinary talents to help make the holidays more joyful for Lincoln and other kids. ❤️
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About us
Boston Children's Hospital is a 404-bed comprehensive center for pediatric health care. As one of the largest pediatric medical centers in the United States, Boston Children's offers a complete range of health care services for children from birth through 21 years of age. (Our services can begin interventions at 15 weeks gestation and in some situations we also treat adults.) We have approximately 25,000 inpatient admissions each year and our 200+ specialized clinical programs schedule 557,000 visits annually. Last year, the hospital performed more than 26,500 surgical procedures and 214,000 radiological examinations. Our team of physicians and nurses has been recognized by a number of independent organizations for overall excellence, and we're proud to share some notable examples with you here.
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- Hospitals and Health Care
- Company size
- 10,001+ employees
- Headquarters
- Boston, MA
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1869
- Specialties
- Research, Patient Services, Technology, Pediatrics, Hospital, and Innovation
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Employees at Boston Children's Hospital
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Andreas Ramos
Author of 22+ books on digital marketing | Professor | University-level digital marketing with AI at CSTU & DMAnc | Universität Heidelberg
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Chris Newell
Senior Director Organizational Development at Boston Children's Hospital
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Walter Pressey
Independent Director, Forsyth Institute
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Michael Edson
IT Manager, Virtual Care and DH Emerging Tech
Updates
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Ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (FNA) has long been used as a safe and effective way to evaluate thyroid nodules in adults, usually without sedation. Now, research from Ari Wassner, MD, and others in our Thyroid Center offers powerful evidence that this approach is safe for pediatric patients, too. 👇
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When Sadie was diagnosed with severe aplastic anemia, she didn’t know what the future might hold. Today, thanks in part to the blood and platelets she’s received from generous donors she’ll never meet, she’s back on the soccer field and getting ready to head to college. Learn more about Sadie’s journey below or make an appointment to donate blood here: http://ms.spr.ly/6045onbN9
A small act of kindness: Blood donations get Sadie off the sidelines after her aplastic anemia diagnosis - Boston Children's Answers Sadie thrives with aplastic anemia
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mRNA vaccines clearly saved lives during the COVID-19 pandemic, but older people had a somewhat reduced immune response to the vaccines compared with younger adults. Why? Boston Children’s researchers, led by Byron Brook, PhD, and Ofer Levy, MD, PhD, found some answers, while providing proof-of-concept of a new system called MEMPHIS that can model immune responses to vaccines in a dish, potentially expediting efforts to make vaccines even more effective. Learn more about this technology 👇
Modeling COVID mRNA vaccine responses in a dish - Boston Children's Answers
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A new report published JAMA Health Forum found that adult obesity rates in the U.S. ticked down slightly from 46% in 2022 to 45.6% in 2023 - the first drop recorded in at least a decade. Authors Drs. John Brownstein and Benjamin Rader spoke with Good Morning America about the encouraging results. Tune in ⬇️
US obesity rates drop for 1st time in a decade, with possible help from weight loss medications
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Boston Children’s is proud to support the Boston Housing Acquisition Fund, a new, innovative fund designed to help stabilize and preserve affordable housing options for communities living in the City of Boston. Learn more about this community-wide initiative on GBH. http://ms.spr.ly/6044ouQw0 “Coming together today serves as a reminder that creating meaningful, transformative change requires collective effort—it truly takes a village,” says Dr. Shari Nethersole, our Vice President of Community Health and Engagement
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Thank you to the Boston Pops for using their talent and time to help make the season at Franciscan Children's brighter! “There’s a portion of our kids that are not going to be home for the holidays and for us to show that they’re not forgotten, that they’re part of who we are, and they’re part of the celebration, I think is really important,” said Kevin Churchwell, president and CEO of Boston Children’s Hospital. http://ms.spr.ly/6042oP9N8
Boston Pops play Yuletide tunes at Franciscan Children’s in Brighton - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News
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The new gene therapies for sickle cell disease, such as Casgevy, have been game-changing for the patients that receive them. But Stuart Orkin, whose work led the way to Casgevy, isn’t done yet: He wants a pill that could be made widely available. In work just published in Science, his lab has opened the way to destabilizing the target molecule, BCL11A, pharmaceutically, so that people can make non-sickling fetal hemoglobin. Learn more on our blog 👇
A drug to treat sickle cell disease? - Boston Children's Answers
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Way to represent! 👏 Our Brain Tumor Center team had a strong presence at the recent Society for Neuro-Oncology (SNO) Annual Meeting, including a featured booth. We also sponsored SNO’s Education Day, chaired sessions, led lectures, presented research, and moderated engaging discussions — a fantastic opportunity to connect with other clinicians and researchers and highlight our work. http://ms.spr.ly/6047oMWJd
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Branden Baptiste, the world’s first person to receive base editing therapy for sickle cell disease, has had his life turned around. 👏 His hematologist, Matthew Heeney, has high hopes: Early results in a small group of patients, including Branden, suggest that base editing is safe, boosts levels of a non-sickling form of hemoglobin, and improves anemia. This ultra-precise gene therapy uses enzymes to correct a single misspelled “letter” of DNA. Learn more.Branden Baptiste is the world’s first person with sickle cell disease to receive base editing, an ultra-precise form of gene therapy that can correct a single misspelled “letter” of a gene. It’s turned his life around: He’s off his sickle cell medications, works as a TSA airport security officer, plans to study civil engineering, and works out at the gym daily – things he couldn’t do before. “I’m operating in every way possible,” he says. Learn more about Branden’s journey. 👇
A sickle cell first: Base editing - Boston Children's Answers
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Immersive Design Systems at Boston Children’s Hospital
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Boston Children's Hospital Trust
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Center for Educational Excellence & Innovation
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Boston Children's Research
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