Reimagining Children’s Health

A PATH to Fast and Trusted Mental Health Care for Kids

I know how overwhelming it can be when your child is struggling — especially when the issue involves mental health. Our PATH Telemental Health Program, Florida is offering help to parents and children with fast telehealth appointments — often the same or next day —  addressing a wide range of mental health issues.

Graduating the Whole Child into Adulthood

An innovative program in Jacksonville goes well beyond medicine to help diabetes patients live independently as young adults.

Supporting Our Cancer Patients and Supporting All Kids

In a Nemours Children’s operating room last week, a healthy little girl lay peacefully unconscious as doctors extracted marrow from her pelvic bone. It is not something a child would be excited to do over spring break, but she had agreed eagerly. The procedure offered the only remaining chance to save her brother’s life. 

Healthy Children Become Healthy Adults

Investing in child health is the single most powerful lever to ensure a healthy population and a strong economy: If we want a healthier American population, we need to prioritize early childhood. Two newly published studies — one authored by a Nemours-led team — offer striking examples of how important childhood habits are for lifelong health.

Investing in America’s Children

We have a big vision at Nemours: to create the healthiest generations of children across America. We know it is ambitious. We got into children’s health in Wilmington, Delaware, due to the philanthropy and generosity of Alfred I. duPont, and his aspiration to make a transformative difference in children’s lives.

Our Community Investment in Children

Last week — before the hurricane that swept across Florida — I attended the second annual Child Health Equity Symposium in Orlando, hosted by Nemours Ginsburg Institute. More than 90 community organizations came together — groups that advocate for access to mental health services, good nutrition, mentorship for at-risk youth, safe housing and more. We all have a stake in keeping kids healthy.

To Solve Childhood Obesity, We Must Go Well Beyond Medicine

Years ago, I had two patients, Fletcher and Billy. They were not related, but happened to be born at the hospital where I worked, on the same day, with the same serious intestinal birth defect. These two boys underscored for me an important lesson: medical care and health care are not the same thing.