I’ve been proud to call Norton Healthcare my employer for 36 years. While I work in human resources now, I got my start as a staff nurse at Norton Children’s Hospital. I met so many special kids and families as a nurse. There are too many to count, but there is one I still think…
The Children’s Hospital Foundation Piggies for Preemies program challenges children and adults throughout Kentucky and Southern Indiana to fill piggy banks with spare change to support premature babies in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Norton Children’s Hospital. Each spring, kids enter a drawing to win a $500 scholarship. All they have to do…
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…
The Piggies for Preemies program challenges children and individuals throughout Kentucky and Southern Indiana to fill piggy banks with spare change. Funds raised support premature babies in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Norton Children’s Hospital. Each spring, kids who return a full piggy bank, canister or virtual piggy bank will be entered to…
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…
An approaching birth is normally a joyful event, but for Jodie and James Campbell of Louisville it was fraught with anxiety. In 2013, their unborn child had become severely anemic from a viral infection, parvovirus, Jodie had developed. At 24 weeks of pregnancy, the child’s survival depended entirely on a timely blood transfusion into the…
Looking ahead to their daughter’s third birthday in April 2016, last summer Jenna and Brian Richie began thinking about a second baby. A little brother for Madelynn would be nice, they thought. Little did they know their spunky, red-headed toddler would soon have three sisters. On Feb. 17, 2016, the Richies welcomed the arrival of…
Our patients are on a journey — often one they didn’t choose. But they don’t travel alone. As Tonya Anderson, R.N., infant development specialist at Norton Children’s Hospital, wrote in a poem: “Don’t worry; we’ll stay by your side all day and night long. … We care for you and your family too. It’s who…
The neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) at Norton Children’s Hospital downtown and Norton Women’s & Children’s Hospital in St. Matthews offer music therapy for infants and their families. This clinical and evidence-based health practice is very different from expressive therapy, which uses music along with art, massage, writing, drama and more to help patients and families express…