WakeMed’s community-based fitness and nutritional education program for teens and pre-teens, has been selected as one of three programs nationwide to qualify for recognition by the Department of Health & Human Services in their Healthy Living Innovations Challenge. We need your help to win this high-profile recognition. Please visit this web site to vote [...]
“My baby was a month premature with poorly-developed lungs. The staff at WakeMed were phenomenal to our family. The surgical, mother-baby, and NICU staff were beyond professional, kind and courteous. As a health-care professional, myself, this is the greatness to which I aspire. Thanks again! From the positive experience we had during a frightening and most-difficult [...]
“On Christmas Day, our three-year-old daughter Amelia started feeling very ill — high fever, persistent rough cough, etc. The next morning when her fever spiked to 103+, and she began wheezing (she’s asthmatic), we knew our little girl was really sick and going down hill fast. Our doctor sent us directly to the WakeMed Children’s [...]
“In 6th grade, I got really sick. Doctors could not find out what was wrong with me. I was really sick for about a month when I was finally admitted into WakeMed where after a few days there, and many tests, Dr. Cinnamon and the GI doctor found out what was wrong with me. I [...]
“On August 17, 2006 we welcomed our daughter into the world. What was supposed to be a parents dream was our nightmare. Emma was born at 24 weeks, 16 weeks early. Sadly, she had quit growing at 21 weeks and was much smaller that the doctors had predicted. Emma weighed a mere 14 ounces at [...]
Thanks to the generosity of the staff at Raleigh Pediatrics, there are new distractions available for pediatric patients in the WakeMed Children’s Hospital. Through their donations, enough money was collected to purchase two iPods and one iPad. And just to make sure that they would be kid-friendly, Dr. Mark Piehl enlisted the help of his own children to [...]
“Our daughter Allison contracted GBS meningitis at 20 days old and was rushed to WakeMed PICU [Pediatric Intensive Care Unit] where she spent almost 6 weeks…being cared for and loved by an amazing staff of doctors, nurses and countless others. Allison came home with major brain damage, and spent quite a few days and weeks [...]
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“My daughter, Kennedy, had orthopedic surgery on her rib cage/spine in June of 2007. She was the first patient at WakeMed to have the newly approved VEPTR surgery to stretch her rib cage and help with scoliosis. Anticipating severe pain, the decision was made to leave her sedated and on the ventilator for 3 days [...]
“My son Josef was born on July 2nd, 2007, 15 weeks premature weighing in at 1lb 7oz. He spent 100 days in the NICU. His stay there had many ups and down, a roller coaster ride to say the least but during that time he got the most amazing care and I met some of [...]
