With support from Kohl’s Cares, Norton Children’s Prevention & Wellness is offering free car seat checks weekly around Louisville and in Shelbyville. First Tuesday of each month Ujima Neighborhood Place, 3610 Bohne Ave., Louisville Norton Healthcare Pavilion, 315 E. Broadway (Preston Street side), Louisville Second Tuesday of each month Make an appointment Call (502) 629-7358 Visit…
Over the years, the name of the hospital has changed, but its mission has remained the same. Children are at the heart of what we do, and Norton Children’s Hospital will continue to care for, heal and serve more than 170,000 children and their families in this community each year. Here’s a look at Norton…
I met him on hospital day 79. There he was — a toddler who was in his third month in the pediatric intensive care unit at Norton Children’s Hospital. He required a life-saving operation to remove part of his skull and put in a tube to drain fluid from his swollen brain. The poor child…
It was the middle of the night when Leslie Peak and another nurse descended on a young toddler’s hospital room. They were on a mission at the request of her parents: change the baby’s diaper without waking her up. Reminiscent of a team of Navy Seals on a top-secret mission, Peak and her colleague cracked…
Rebecca “Becca” Campbell couldn’t wait to celebrate her 13th birthday. She had big plans to celebrate. After all, she had just won the fight against stage 4 ovarian cancer. Becca’s birthday celebration quickly became less about her and more about how she could give back to other young people who are now battling for their…
It’s not uncommon for a wild child to turn into a couch potato teen, but a new study finds the slowdown in activity happens long before the onset of puberty. The British Journal of Sports Medicine reports that sedentary behaviors start to develop at the ripe old age of 7. The researchers studied 400 kids…
Your toddler is cranky and not her usual sweet self. She’s had her nap, so she can’t be tired. Suddenly she tugs at her ear and you think, “Oh, no, not another ear infection. Why is this happening again?” Ear infections are caused by bacteria or viruses entering the middle ear through the eustachian tube….
Eye poisonings are plaguing Kentucky families and, without proper treatment, these injuries can have devastating effects. Last year the Kentucky Poison Control Center received nearly 2,000 calls about Kentuckians getting chemicals in their eyes. Experts estimate that’s only a fraction of eye splashes, as many people look up treatment information online or go straight to…
Norton Children’s Hospital is expanding to improve critical care services for children and grow its family-centered approach to treating the region’s sickest kids. Norton Healthcare announced plans to invest $78.3 million to create the Jennifer Lawrence Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) and renovate the “Just for Kids” Critical Care Center and two of the neonatal…
It was spring of 1985 when 14-year-old Maria appeared in the Norton Children’s Hospital burn unit. She’d been flown to Louisville from Ecuador and she really needed help. More than a third of her body had been torched — for an unknown reason she had put gasoline in her hair and walked by an open…
UPDATE: Thank you for your interest. We’ve been overwhelmed by the outpouring of support and have far more applications than we have openings. We’re forced to end the application period early. Thank you again.
My family and friends will tell you the one word that describes me is “planner.” In the last year, three little miracles have shown me plans don’t always go as you want. Over 10 years ago I met a guy. We became friends, and I soon knew he was the one. Before we married we…