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Spring 2022

The Johns Hopkins Children's Center Magazine

In This Issue

Featured Story The Serious Side of Play

By using toys, games and fun to connect with young patients, child life specialists do crucial work in preventing the trauma that can arise with hospitalizations and other medical interventions.

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A group of toys and medical supplies, including a syringe and medical tape. In the center is a pink plush panda, with slips of paper protruding from the zippered pocket of its mouth. One of the slips says 'Pokes'.

Articles in this Issue

  • Schooled in Good Health

    Established by Children’s Center leaders in 2014, the Rales Health Center has become a much-valued hub for health and wellness for students of the KIPP charter schools in West Baltimore, and their families. When COVID-19 struck, efforts to address inequity took on even more urgency.

    Smiling KIPP students stand in a circle. They all reach their hands into the center of the circle.

  • Shaped in the Southwest

    Providing health care to members of the Navajo Nation and other Native American communities has proven formative for medical residents who pursue electives with the Indian Health Service as part of their residency training. In the profiles that follow, four young doctors share their experiences.

    A rocky ridge juts out from a desert landscape.

Departments

Pediatric Rounds

Pediatric Rounds

Research Roundup

Research Round up

People & Philanthropy

People and Philanthropy

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Charitable Giving

For their future, and yours

There are many ways to support Johns Hopkins Children's Center, options that benefit you and your family, too. A charitable gift annuity provides you or a loved one with a guaranteed income and tax benefits and helps us continue to transform young lives through the best pediatric treatment and care.

To learn more, contact the Office of Gift Planning:
410-516-7854 or 800-548-1268
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The Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children's Center Building

The Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children's Center exterior at night

Our state-of-the-art, 209-bed Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children’s Center building, which opened in 2012, is designed to provide you and your child with the latest advances in family-centered care. Get more details.

  • Opened in 2012
  • 205 private rooms with sleeping accommodations for parents
  • Acoustical ceiling tiles and rubber flooring help create a quiet healing environment

  • Supersized sculptures and literary themed art distract from the hospital experience
  • Family amenities like on-demand meals, family lounges and multiple play rooms
  • Expanded, easy-to-access Pediatric Emergency Department

  • Dedicated pediatric trauma bays
  • 40-bed Pediatric ICU
  • 45-bed Neonatal ICU
  • Dedicated PCICU
  • 10 state-of-the-art pediatric surgical suites

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