Brain Tumor, Childrens Hospital Foundation, Epilepsy, Foundation, Neurosciences

Norton Children’s Neurosurgery using new virtual reality brain-modeling technology

There is an amount of uncertainty with any type of neurosurgery. Neurosurgeons study a patient’s medical history, current condition, and computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to plan for surgery. However, those images can show only so much. Once surgery begins, surgeons may face issues that they couldn’t have anticipated. Now, however,…

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Foundation

2019 Enterprise Golf Scramble Classic honoree inspired family and followers with her life

The story of Aadya Lincey, this year’s honoree for the 2019 Enterprise Golf Scramble Classic, began a few months prior to her birth. Her parents received a devastating diagnosis during an ultrasound. Their baby girl would be born with a heart condition called tetralogy of Fallot. The treatment for this condition is open heart surgery…

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Home & BMW Raffle

Last year’s Home & BMW Raffle winner just wanted to help

Some may call it beginner’s luck. Others may call it just plain lucky, but for Dan Haddix, his purchase of two Norton Children’s Hospital Home & Raffle tickets was more about a chance to give back. Late last year, Dan won the grand prize — a new home in Norton Commons. The Haddix family had…

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Norton Childrens Hospital, Patient Stories, Splash N Dash, Teens

Splash ‘n’ Dash event honors local teen

This year marks the 11th anniversary of the passing of Max Gilpin, a local high school football player who suffered a heat stroke during a team practice. The community remembers Max’s legacy through the annual Norton Children’s Hospital Splash ‘n’ Dash Walk/Run, which was started in his honor five years ago. Splash ‘n’ Dash raises…

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Heart, Legislation

8-year-old heart transplant recipient speaks on Capitol Hill

Eleanor Westenhofer, an 8-year-old heart transplant patient, led a delegation to Washington. Eleanor, along with a team from Norton Children’s Hospital, met with lawmakers to make sure they keep sick kids in mind as they work on health care legislation. She took part in Speak Now for Kids 2019 Family Advocacy Day. Eleanor shared this about…

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Legislation, Patient Stories

Louisville second-grader heads to U.S. Capitol to advocate for kids’ health

Hey there! My name is Eleanor and I’m 8 years old. I love drawing and art. I also really like to play with Legos with my little sister. I’m in the second grade, and the classes that I enjoy the most are science and reading. Pasta is my most favorite food. I have a lot…

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Bourbon and Bowties

Bourbon & Bowties raises $342,000 for Norton Children’s Child Life and therapy dogs program

The 10th annual Bourbon & Bowties celebrated all of the event’s honorees from the past nine years. Each of these remarkable honorees represents the more than 150,000 children who receive care at Norton Children’s Hospital each year.Bourbon & Bowties has raised over $2 million over the past 10 years This year’s event also remembered and…

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Foundation

Elementary school kids raise $500,000 for Norton Children’s

The students of North Harrison Elementary School in Ramsey, Indiana, raised $39,543.53 for Norton Children’s during the 2018-2019 school year and celebrated with a fun-filled field trip to Louisville Slugger Field on May 15, 2019. Nearly 300 pre-K to fifth-graders were rewarded with the field trip. North Harrison Elementary has been raising money to support…

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Bourbon and Bowties

$2,600 in dining gift certificates up for grabs through Bourbon & Bowties™ raffle

Enjoy dining out at 26 local restaurants if you are the winner of the 2019 Bourbon & Bowties™ raffle. A $25 ticket will give you a chance to win a $100 gift certificate to each restaurant. The raffle benefits Norton Children’s Hospital through the Children’s Hospital Foundation. The drawing will be held June 6 at…

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Childrens Hospital Foundation, Prevention & Wellness

Puffy winter coats could pose danger for kids in car seats

As the temperatures continue to drop, many parents are making a potentially fatal mistake by putting their kids in winter coats while they are in car seats. When a child is wearing a winter coat, it may feel like they are strapped snugly into the car seat, but the straps actually are dangerously loose against…

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Norton Childrens Hospital, Patient Stories, Radiothon, Teens

Remembering Max Gilpin 10 years after fatal heat stroke during football practice

On Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008, a hot and humid day, Max Gilpin’s mother, Michele Crockett, received a phone call just as she was leaving work to pick him up from football practice. The caller said her 15-year-old had passed out on the field and was not moving. “I was not prepared for what I saw…

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Childrens Hospital Foundation, Heart, Heart Transplant, Home & BMW Raffle, Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, Norton Childrens Hospital, Patient Stories

Once too fragile for a heart transplant, young P.J. and his family look to a bright future

Philmore Jackson III, is a courageous young man whose medical journey has taken many twists and turns. By age 3, Philmore, who goes by P.J., had been near death many times. By many accounts, there wasn’t much hope for him to live to his fourth birthday. Born in 2014 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, P.J. was…

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