When was the last time your child saw their pediatrician? Norton Children’s practices and facilities have resumed all services as before the coronavirus outbreak, while taking extra precautions to keep you and your child safer. If you’ve been putting off vaccinations, a well-baby visit or other medical care for your child during the pandemic, you may…
It’s not always easy to practice social distancing with kids. Kids love to explore and play together — so asking them to keep their distance can be tough. But there are ways that parents can teach social distancing — “keeping our hands to ourselves” — that can help families stay healthy together. Norton Children’s wants…
Norton Children’s Hospital environmental services crews disinfect each patient room daily and perform a deep clean after each patient leaves the hospital. The strict regimen between patients includes disinfecting furniture and surfaces such as bedrails, bedside table and over-bed table. The bed is cleaned top to bottom, and a five-step procedure is used to disinfect…
Wearing a mask (when age-appropriate) is a way for people to help stop the spread of COVID-19 and keep children and families safer during the COVID-19 outbreak. Norton Children’s wants every child to be a “Super Kid.” Super Kids help keep themselves and their friends and family healthier by completing healthy actions. Being a Norton…
Norton Children’s has created a multidisciplinary clinic for children who have experienced multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) associated with COVID-19. Norton Children’s Pediatric MIS-C Multidisciplinary Clinic will give children who were hospitalized with MIS-C follow-up care with a team of pediatric specialists who can monitor the child for any short- and long-term effects of…
For pediatrician Heather Felton, M.D., seeing patients from her home is new. For her house, it’s like old times. The home Dr. Felton and her family bought in Anchorage, Kentucky, five years ago was built around 1900 and owned by Joseph Winston, M.D. He lived and practiced in the house — treating the sick, providing…
Appointments with your child’s health care providers are changing, and new options may be around long after the coronavirus threat has passed. For Madeleine Wardell, APRN, pediatric nurse practitioner, the waiting room at Norton Children’s Medical Group – Crestwood isn’t used much. Parents check their child in for their appointment from their cars and go…
Fewer children than adults have been diagnosed with COVID-19. Of children who have been diagnosed, most haven’t been very sick. Some children had cold symptoms, and we know that some children who have tested positive for the coronavirus have had no symptoms at all. However, over the last couple of weeks in the U. S….
As Kentucky begins seeing cases of pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome, associated with COVID-19, Norton Children’s Hospital and the commonwealth of Kentucky are launching a pediatric COVID-19 helpline. The helpline, (800) 722-5725, is open 24/7 to anyone in the state. Norton Children’s Hospital nurses and other medical providers will respond to syndrome-related questions and concerns from…
So far in the COVID-19 pandemic, data from China, Italy and other European countries showed that coronavirus infections were much less common in children than adults. When children did get sick with the virus, they didn’t become as sick. However, in late April, reports of children with hyperinflammatory symptoms emerged in England. Now, New York…
Phase 1 of Kentucky’s Healthy at Work plan called for the reopening of nonurgent/nonemergency health care services, diagnostic radiology and laboratory services on April 27. The plan also recommends that telehealth appointments should be used whenever possible, rather than in-person visits. Your pediatric health care provider will review your child’s situation to assess whether a…
Concerns over COVID-19 are keeping some families from doing wellness visits with their child’s pediatrician. Doctors are concerned this delay could result in children falling behind on potentially lifesaving vaccines or even cause future outbreaks of disease. “We know that these illnesses are preventable, and most of the illnesses will cause more harm to children…