Patient Resources at Norton Children’s Cancer Institute
Norton Children’s Cancer Institute, affiliated with the UofL School of Medicine, and hosts several regularly scheduled support groups for kids with cancer and family members.
From the time your child enters the hospital, we try to give him or her time away from medical procedures to just be a kid.
Services
- Hearts & Hands Care Team
- Child Life and Expressive Therapies
- Patient and family navigators
- Playrooms are for play. No medical procedures.
- School Re-entry Program
- Video games, computers, arts and crafts and other age-appropriate activities for teens.
Support Groups
Families and children need psychosocial help getting through the pediatric cancer journey
Counseling children with cancer has become more important in recent years for a simple reason. It used to be that not many kids with cancer got to grow up. Now they do. That is great […]
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With the ring of a bell, kids mark the end of chemotherapy
With a few tugs on a knotted rope, 16-year-old Jillian Hebermehl rang the bell that marked the end of her chemotherapy. The ringing echoed past cheering nurses, signifying an incredible milestone for yet another pediatric […]
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Nurse navigator found her ‘niche’ in childhood cancer
When Frances Price, R.N., was a teenager, she felt a calling to nursing. She had watched her grandfather struggle with health complications, including heart attacks and strokes. Today, as a patient navigator with Norton Children’s […]
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Pediatrician, brain surgeon and oncologist team up to help boy recover
In 2016, not long after his fourth birthday, Jameson Milby started having headaches, nausea and vomiting. “I’m one of those moms who calls the doctor for a scrape on the knee, so I made an […]
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Faced with childhood cancer, family chooses joy over sadness
“Your child has cancer.” Those are words no parent ever wants to hear. It’s heartbreaking news that takes you on an emotional roller coaster, filled with difficult decisions. Emily and Jason Fox’s son Boone was […]
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Families and children need psychosocial help getting through the pediatric cancer journey
Counseling children with cancer has become more important in recent years for a simple reason. It used to be that not many kids with cancer got to grow up. Now they do. That is great […]
Read Full Story
With the ring of a bell, kids mark the end of chemotherapy
With a few tugs on a knotted rope, 16-year-old Jillian Hebermehl rang the bell that marked the end of her chemotherapy. The ringing echoed past cheering nurses, signifying an incredible milestone for yet another pediatric […]
Read Full Story
Nurse navigator found her ‘niche’ in childhood cancer
When Frances Price, R.N., was a teenager, she felt a calling to nursing. She had watched her grandfather struggle with health complications, including heart attacks and strokes. Today, as a patient navigator with Norton Children’s […]
Read Full Story
Pediatrician, brain surgeon and oncologist team up to help boy recover
In 2016, not long after his fourth birthday, Jameson Milby started having headaches, nausea and vomiting. “I’m one of those moms who calls the doctor for a scrape on the knee, so I made an […]
Read Full Story
Faced with childhood cancer, family chooses joy over sadness
“Your child has cancer.” Those are words no parent ever wants to hear. It’s heartbreaking news that takes you on an emotional roller coaster, filled with difficult decisions. Emily and Jason Fox’s son Boone was […]
Read Full Story
