News & Events

MCH Physicians Listed Among ‘America’s Top Doctors’

 

Fifty MCH physicians have been identified by U.S.News & World Report as being among “America’s Top Doctors.” What’s more, three of the MCH subspecialists were further highlighted as being among the top 1 percent of physicians in their subspecialty nationwide. Read more...

 

The hospital’s Marketing Department received a national 2011 eHealthcare Leadership Award in the Best Integrated Marketing Campaign category for a project that included on-air television, video news segments, website content and social media platforms. Congratulations to all!

Jackie Lytle Gonzalez and Nancy Humbert of Miami Children’s Hospital will present awards in these categories at the 2011 March of Dimes Nurse of the Year awards.

That night, Lillian Rivera, Administrator, Miami Dade Health County Department, will receive the March of Dimes Nurse of The Year 2011 Honoree Award.

RECALLED - Thickening Gel

June 4, 2011 - Product Recall - Simply Thick, LLC Announces The Voluntary Recall Of Products Manufactured By Thermo Pac, LLC At Their Stone Mountain, GA Food Processing Plant. For additional information, please refer to the company issued press release available on FDA's web site at www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/UCM257841 (06/4/2011)

FDA Alert regarding SimplyThick® and Premature Infants

 

The Food & Drug Administration has released a Safety Alert for all parents, caregivers and health care providers advising them not to feed SimplyThick, a thickening agent for management of swallowing disorders, to infants, born before 37 weeks, who are currently in the hospital or have been discharged in the past 30 days. The product may cause necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC).   There have been reports from several hospitals nationwide of babies who were fed SimplyThick added to human milk or infant formula and developed NEC.  It is unknown at this time if Simply Thick is the causing the NEC. (05/23/2011)

IHOP National Pancake Day to benefit Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals Program at MCH
Join IHOP on Tuesday, March 1 at 7 a.m. - 10 p.m., for National Pancake Day and receive one complimentary short stack! In return for the free flapjacks, we ask you to consider leaving a little something behind for Miami Children's Hospital, your local Children's Miracle Network Hospital. Thanks to our guests' generosity, IHOP raised more than $2.1 million nationally last year. IHOP began its National Pancake Day in 2006, and since then, has raised $5.35 million for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals and other local charities and given away more than 10.1 million buttermilk pancakes. Visit www.ihoppancakeday.com for more information.

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Miami Children's Hospital has been accepted into the Institutes of Excellence^TM network for Pediatric Congenital Heart Surgery beginning November 1,2010. The program's acceptance was based on meeting all the criteria for credentialing, access, and contractual terms set forth by Aetna.

 

Facilities accepted into the Institutes of Excellence network for Pediatric Congenital Heart Surgery will be recognized and identified in our member directories and in DocFind®, an online physician directory, on our public website at www.aetna.com. (10/14/2010) Read more

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PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fl-- American Honda Motors and its dealers along with distinguished guests of The Honda Classic raised an astounding $200,000 in a matter of minutes to aid the children at Miami Children's Hospital who were critically injured during the recent earthquake in Haiti. (3/22/2010) Read more

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Dr. Evan Zahn, director of cardiology at Miami Children's Hospital's Congenital Heart Institute, is the lead author of a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC). The JACC article describes six-month outcomes for patients using the Melody(R) Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve from Medtronic, Inc. The valve is implanted through a catheter procedure instead of open-heart surgery in patients with congenital heart disease affecting the function of their pulmonary valve. “These important study results show that the Melody transcatheter valve is an effective alternative to repeat open heart surgery and all of the attendant risks associated with it,” said Evan Zahn, MD. “This procedure represents an exciting breakthrough for a patient population that typically requires numerous open heart surgical procedures over the course of their lifetime and in certain instances may be life saving.”