According to Children’s Medical Center Foundation Senior Vice President Cyndi Bassel,
“Children’s Health recently stepped forward to acquire Our Children’s House, which provides highly specialized rehabilitative and transitional care for children with special needs.
“We are so pleased and proud to continue this essential service in our community by providing a ‘home’ for patients and their families with the most challenging and complex needs.
“Our goal is simple: to return each child to his or her optimum level of health. But considerable resources are needed to sustain this multidimensional program, which includes a licensed pediatric hospital for children from infancy through age 18 with developmental or birth disorders, traumatic injury or severe illness. Inpatient specialty areas include neurological rehabilitation, feeding and pulmonary programs.
“Our Children’s House also includes nine outpatient clinics across the DFW area that offer care coordination, development screenings and assessments, sleep studies, parent education and support, and even a special needs day care. Outpatient pediatric specialties include physical and occupational therapy and rehabilitation, pulmonary problems, feeding difficulties, chronic and recurrent headaches, and speech/language therapy.
“The stories of lives restored and improved are numerous. One such story is of Emmy Kaighan, who was struck with a devastating brain inflammation at the age of 3 and had to relearn virtually everything. She is now well along her road to recovery at the age of 9, due, in large part, to the superior therapy she has received and continues to take part in at Our Children’s House.
“To learn more about Our Children’s House or to support this critical program and children like Emmy, please visit give.childrens.com/och.”
-Cyndi Bassel, Children’s Medical Center Foundation Senior Vice President
* Graphic and photos provided by Children's Medical Center Foundation