Blythedale Responds to COVID-19 Pandemic
"We all have fear, but courage is not the absence of fear. It's being able to do what you need to do despite fear."
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck the region in March 2020, Blythedale put the safety and needs of its patients, families, staff and community first and became a place that all could turn for health, heroes and hope.
Learn how Blythedale leadership, clinicians and staff stepped up during the evolving crisis to utilize technology for medically complex patients in order to maintain their health and safety while their bodies healed.
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Jayden Heads Home for the Holidays
Jayden was born at just 27-weeks' gestation. At birth, he required resuscitation and was placed on a mechanical ventilator to help him breathe. He was diagnosed with chronic lung disease of prematurity, also known as bronchopulmonary dysplasia, as well as pulmonary hypertension. He was first...
Healing Beyond Medicine: The Heart of Resilience
"When you hear your child has a sudden medical diagnosis or a sudden trauma, life as our families knew it has undergone a drastic change. One of our goals is to help them navigate that phase of their journey with support, with compassion, with clinical expertise, but mostly with hope." Watch the...
Six-year-old Jayden has no shortage of energy. Born at just 29-weeks gestation, the former preemie was diagnosed with intractable epilepsy, which caused seizures that were sometimes several minutes long. He used a manual wheelchair due to spasticity in his legs, and received all his nutrition...
