LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Feb. 12, 2016) – Children with heart conditions who seek care at Norton Children’s Hospital will receive a boost thanks to a $2 million gift from the Lawrence Family Foundation that will establish the Jennifer Lawrence Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. In addition, the foundation is challenging the community to raise an additional $2…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Feb. 11, 2016) – Norton Children’s Hospital has established a heart center to address any and all heart conditions in children from across Kentucky and Southern Indiana. The Norton Children’s Hospital Heart Center provides comprehensive family-oriented services for patients of all ages born with heart defects (congenital heart disease) and for children with…
The World Health Organization is out with a new study on the obesity crisis, and the findings are troubling. Worldwide, at least 41 million children age 5 and younger are obese or overweight, up nearly 25 percent from three decades ago. According to Healthy Louisville, nearly 20 percent of local kindergartners are overweight. The numbers…
No one watching Ethan Byler play on the swing set with his sister, Emily, would point to the toddler and say, “He had a heart transplant.” They wouldn’t know that earlier this year Ethan became the first child in Kentucky to get a Berlin Heart. They’d never guess this external mechanical pump kept Ethan alive…
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…