Category: Patient Family Experience

Waterproof casts offer all the benefits of traditional casting plus several other benefits. Learn about the benefits and how to take care of them properly.

Having a family member in the hospital can be hard. Learn how child life specialists help support the siblings of kids in the hospital.

Have a child who's anxious about surgery? One tool that might help is this video game controlled by breathing through an anesthesia mask.

Use these strategies to support a child with a sibling in the hospital, and learn how our Child Life Specialists help with sibling support.

Mental health providers include psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, social workers, therapists and more. Learn more about these various titles and roles.

The Family Pet Center brings together pets and hospitalized patients at Cincinnati Children's. Read how one care team member uses the center with her patients.

Second opinions can help if you're looking for additional insights about a diagnosis, information about another treatment option, or peace of mind as you move forward. Learn more about second opinions and how to get one.

Play therapy involves much more than just playing with a child. Learn about how play therapists use play with specific goals in medical settings.

I’d like to introduce you to Trinity, one of three facility dogs working here at Cincinnati Children’s. My name is Emily and I’m a social worker as well as Trinity’s handler. That means Trinity works with me at the hospital, and she goes home with me at the end of each day. We work together

Preparation and accurate expectations are important for kids who need an overnight sleep study at the hospital. Learn how one family prepared their son for his study and what you can expect to happen if your child also needs to have one.

For parents who may be in the middle of a craniosynostosis journey with their child, here's what one mom learned about getting second opinions, traveling for care, and helmet therapy.

Newly completed updates in the concourse at Cincinnat Children's Burnet Campus focus on useful space, colors and animals to help families navigate campus.

A mother shares a list of things she wished she had known when her daughter was inpatient. If your child is facing a hospitalization, her tips may help:

In honor of Child Life Month, Cincinnati Children's is highlight just a few of the many amazing things our Child Life & Integrative Care staff do every day.

There are many similarities between sedation and anesthesia, but also distinct differences. Learn more about how they differ.

25 Cincinnati Children's patients and siblings were presented customized superhero capes created by ArtWorks Hero Design Company apprentices.

Just five days after her life-saving kidney transplant, Angely and her living organ donor walked out of the hospital together.

A beautiful depiction of the love, strength and courage a mama exhibits when her child is in the hospital.

Parents often feel helpless following a definitive diagnosis for their child. One of our social workers offers potential next steps to take.

Best friends Anna and Grace had surgery for their scoliosis on the same day by the same surgeon. But their friendship goes much deeper than that.

A mom reflects on her child's experiences with IBD and Crohn's disease, now that he has graduated college and is heading out on his own.

Patients and families share their stories in eight not-to-be-missed videos posted over the course of 2015 on Cincinnati Children's YouTube channel.

The CBDI Hospital School Program offers individualized academic instruction and tutoring to inpatients of all ages on the hematology/oncology floor.

Happy New Year from our Cincinnati Children's Champions families to yours! Six patients and their parents tell us what they're most excited about in 2016.