Special Delivery: A Focus on Obstetrics
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital recognizes that a healthy start for children begins with outstanding care for expectant mothers. The following stories of four local women,…
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In Good Hands: Packard Develops Outreach Network of Pediatric Surgical Care
When it comes to pediatric surgical care, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital has turned the traditional model on its head. Through a network of outreach clinics…
Comfort Always: Helping Young Patients Manage Pain
When 2-year-old Lexsea Morgan of Ben Lomond was scheduled for surgery at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital last February to fix a congenital kidney problem, her…
Switch: Packard’s Pediatric Transplant Program Takes a Team Approach to Saving Lives
Jeremiah Kwakye of San Jose was just 15 months old when his parents brought him to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital for a life-saving liver transplant….
Safe and Sound: Making Pediatric Surgery Safer, Seamless, and More Precise
You may not hear the ocean’s roar when you walk into an operating room at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, but there is a sea change…
Life After Cancer: Helping Children and Families Cope with Long-Term Effects of Cancer Survival
For Claire Harding of San Mateo, cancer treatment was life saving – and life changing. Just days before her tenth birthday, she was diagnosed with…
All Grown Up: From Tiny Transplant Patient to Thriving Young Adult
Miranda Ashland is one busy girl. A thriving high school senior from Saratoga, she’s filling out college applications and starring in her school’s production of…
Scamper 2013 was a success!
On June 23, more than 3,000 participants joined us at the sold-out Packard Summer Scamper and helped raise over $360,000 for Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital,…
What makes Packard Children’s “the best”?
In June, U.S. News & World Report honored Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital as one of the nation’s top children’s hospitals, placing six of our specialties…
Toddler from Chico One of the “Biggest Saves Ever”
One year ago, Jessica and Jesse Vega watched a team from Packard Children’s work to save their son Dominic’s life in the back of an…