Find out what is involved in in-hospital hemodialysis and its benefits.
As a parent/caregiver, you can play an important role in preparing your child to come to the hospital. Learn about your child's surgery, ask questions and find out how you can prepare your child.
Learn how to help your child get used to staying in the hospital.
Learn tips to help navigate the transitions you and your child will experience during their hospital stay for intestinal failure and when planning to return home from the hospital.
Find out what to expect as your child recovers from limb lengthening and reconstruction surgery.
Read about some practical help you can provide if you have a friend who has a sick child in the hospital.
It is important to keep your child as healthy as possible before a heart transplant. Learn about what happens while you are waiting for a donor heart to become available.
There are certain things that you will need to do to prepare to come to the hospital on the day of your child’s surgery. Review the checklists in this article to help you and your child get ready for surgery.
As a parent, you can play an important role in preparing your child for a stay in hospital. Learn about your child's operation, ask questions, and find out how you can prepare your child.
Learn what to expect when your child comes to the hospital for surgery. Everyone’s surgical journey is different and may look different depending on the hospital you are at.
Learn how "care-by-parent" prepares you to care for a child with complex needs when they are discharged from hospital.
Play gives toddlers an opportunity for learning and social development and it may also help to alleviate boredom and stress. Find out about play activities for hospitalized toddlers.
While you're in the hospital, your health-care team may include a teacher to help you keep up with school work. Find out what you can expect from your in-hospital school teacher.
Pharmacists are trained health professionals who are medication experts. Learn about the role they play in the health-care team.
Coping with your child's illness as a parent means taking care of yourself. Learn practical stress relief approaches for parents.
Learn about play for school-age children staying in the hospital.
Learn about play for preschoolers staying in the hospital.
When your child comes to the hospital for surgery, you will meet many different members of the health-care team. Learn about the role each of these people play in your child’s care.
Here is an introduction to scoliosis surgery. Links are provided to pages that give information about what will happen before, during, and after surgery.
Learn the types of exercises your child can do while in the hospital, after the blood and marrow transplant (BMT).
Nurses help to coordinate your health care at the hospital and at home. Find out more about what a nurse does and how they can help you.
Learn about the restrictions in protective isolation, after your child's blood and marrow transplant.
When your child is coming to the hospital, there are important items you need to remember. Review this article to make sure you're prepared.
Learn about child-friendly activities in the hospital, after a blood and marrow transplant.
