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In the Blink of an Eye
Amanda's mother sits silently in the hospital waiting room, heart thumping, trying to slow her breathing, praying between breaths. Her Amanda, her sweet, playful seven-year-old daughter, has suffered a major fall, and is in surgery for a traumatic brain injury...
Schumer Pledges to Fight Medicaid Cuts
According to the Senator, the Administration's proposed budget would hurt more than 26,000 children in Westchester and Rockland Counties, and the cuts would mean that thousands of Hudson Valley children would lose access to affordable health care that working families...
Hear My Voice, Watch Me Move - Assistive Technology and Children
Some children live locked in silence. Though they have so much to say, they cannot speak. Some cannot move or control much of their bodies. Others face a grim future of gradual loss of speech or movement, or both. They...
Blythedale to Participate in TOM:NYC Makeathon
For children with complex medical needs, highly customized assistive devices typically prove to be costly and often difficult to come by. Enter TOM:NYC and a three-day Makeathon, in which teams of eight “makers” (engineers, product designers, developers and coders) will...
Burke Neurological Institute and Blythedale Children’s Hospital Announce Landmark Partnership
The Burke-Blythedale Pediatric Neuroscience Research Collaboration is the first partnership between a research institute and a children’s specialty hospital to study and treat the developing nervous system. According to the Child Neurology Foundation, one in six children have a neurological...
Medicaid and Our Children
Contrary to popular perception, many are in working families with low incomes. Others are primarily covered by primary insurance, but have serious chronic conditions that require ongoing therapies and specialized care that are not covered by private insurance. Reductions in...
