Articles tagged with 'medical center' | Checkup Newsroom

On Wednesday, four Cook Children’s experts, who have been on the frontlines for the last 18 months, addressed journalists regarding the state of Cook Children’s Health Care System.They shared how Cook Children’s is currently being impacted by a surge...

Throughout the COVID-19 health crisis, Cook Children’s has made every effort to keep patients and families safe while following the latest guidelines provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Since Nov. 16, only one caregiver ...

How many people imagine their first job would be the same place they’d work almost half a century later? That is the story for Cook Children’s longest tenured Black employee, Arlene Scott. She has upheld the Promise of Cook Children’s for more than h...

When Cynthia Keator, M.D., passes the Atrium, she can't help but feel that same sense of awe that Cook Children’s Medical Center gave her more than 20 years ago as a volunteer.Dr. Keator, who is a pediatric neurologist and epileptologist at Cook Chil...

Jana Dodd writes a blog for us about her daughter's time at Cook Children's and her struggle with Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome.

My wife nudges me. It’s 2 a.m. “Hey babe, did you hear that? Who is coughing? Can you go check on them? Take your stethoscope.” That’s what an Emergency Room visit looks like in our house in the middle of the night. This time of year, many of y...

I count myself fortunate to live in a time when there is continual progress in all areas of medical care. Major medical breakthroughs are a rare thing and become even rarer as you move into smaller, specialized groups within the population. In the ca...

Did you know the beginning of April marked national public health week? Probably not. The observance which began officially in 1995 doesn’t garner much in the way of public attention. Still, it serves to highlight public health achievements as well a...

Eating a clean and health diet is one of our 2013 family goals. We have strived to prepare more home-cooked meals and have brought more fresh ingredients since the beginning of the year. I’ve been actively seeking new recipes to try and have been loo...