2026
April
09,
2026
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10:57 AM
America/Chicago
On average, families like Angelaka's who go through the Healthy Homes program have a 75% decrease in the number of emergency room visits, according to Healthy Homes’ data.
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March
30,
2026
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17:26 PM
America/Chicago
Cook Children’s Health Care System celebrated doctors and medical staff on National Doctors' Day, March 30, with its annual Slime-A-Doc event. More than 10,000 employees including doctors, administrative staff and volunteers help fulfill Cook …
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2025
September
12,
2025
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09:00 AM
America/Chicago
Cook Children's Health Care System has seen an uptick in injuries due to e-bikes and e-scooters. Some electronic bikes and scooters can reach speeds of more than 10 mph. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recommends that children …
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June
06,
2025
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11:21 AM
America/Chicago
As children spend more time at home during school breaks, the risk of unintentional gun injuries increases if firearms are not safely stored, according to Eric Gonzalez, Program Coordinator for the Center for Community Health at Cook Children's …
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February
11,
2025
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08:00 AM
America/Chicago
In 2021, a surge in suicide attempts among children and teens was a call to action for Cook Children’s Health Care System.In March of that year, a record 43 patients were admitted to Cook Children’s Medical Center – Fort Worth after attempting …
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January
15,
2025
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09:54 AM
America/Chicago
At least twice a year, the Ezernack family makes a three-hour drive and a two-day stay to Cook Children’s. 11-year-old Hunter Ezernack was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder. There are only two other children in the country with a similar …
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January
08,
2025
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14:51 PM
America/Chicago
Patient care and staff safety are our top priorities at Cook Children's. With wintry weather and potential snow on the horizon, we have taken steps to ensure we can continue providing uninterrupted care. Sidewalks at our Fort Worth medical center …
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2022
January
17,
2022
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10:13 AM
America/Chicago
By Wini King, Chief of Communications and Employee ConnectionsToday we remember and celebrate the life and leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who showed the world how to fight battles not with violence, but instead with peace.As we begin year …
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2021
March
25,
2021
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09:45 AM
America/Chicago
By Bianka Soria-Olmos, D.O.The last few weeks have been hard, to say the least. Although the new year brought hope that we would begin to look to a “return to normal” after one year of the COVID-19 pandemic, things haven’t felt so …
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February
08,
2021
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09:47 AM
America/Chicago
Seizures aren’t as uncommon as one might think. In fact, one in 26 people in the United States will develop epilepsy at some point in their lifetime, according to the Epilepsy Foundation. Apply that statistic to a typical school classroom, …
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February
04,
2021
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10:27 AM
America/Chicago
By Michelle Bailey, M.D.As COVID-19 continues to inundate our society, there arises the question of when to start the countdown clock of quarantine. Let’s say mom gets sick with COVID-19 and stays at home as she is supposed to. Centers for …
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2020
December
04,
2020
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16:37 PM
America/Chicago
By Michelle Bailey, MDWell, we made it to December. What a year! Ups and downs, good and bad.It’s nearly the end of 2020. After a more casual and calm Thanksgiving, it’s now time to gear up for all the December celebrations including …
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September
10,
2020
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09:57 AM
America/Chicago
The number of patients treated for gunshot injuries at Cook Children’s is on the rise, and experts fear the trend may continue with a recent surge of firearm sales. A Fort Worth child under the age of 5 became the hospital’s 23rd gunshot …
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September
08,
2020
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13:54 PM
America/Chicago
For two nurse residents at Cook Children’s, walking a mile in a patient’s shoes isn’t too hard to imagine because they’ve been there, or rather, here. Jason Schilder and Emily Whitworth have both experienced life as a patient …
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July
13,
2020
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10:32 AM
America/Chicago
You may have seen stories on the news and social media recently about so-called “COVID parties,” where people are intentionally exposing themselves and/or their children to the novel coronavirus. Over the weekend, news of the death of a …
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May
12,
2020
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14:49 PM
America/Chicago
A recent trip to Cook Children’s is one a young cancer patient may never forget. During a visit to have her blood cells counted prior to chemotherapy, 16-year-old Lauren Quintero had the chance to talk to ‘Parks and Recreation’ …
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April
21,
2020
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16:15 PM
America/Chicago
Dr. Whitney Appleby, a licensed psychologist at Cook Children's Psychology Clinic - Denton, shares strategies on how caregivers can balance parenting, working, and teaching children from home during the COVID-19 global pandemic.
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February
19,
2020
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09:39 AM
America/Chicago
After waking up in a hospital bed at Cook Children’s Medical Center the day after his fifth open-heart surgery, Garrett Martin wondered if he made the right choice.
“I had my chest bone ripped open. It’s going to hurt,” …
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2017
September
20,
2017
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10:43 AM
America/Chicago
She holds in her hands the autopsy report of her 19-year-old son, a young man with dreams to “do something big in this world.”
Tracy Jensen often thinks about her son, Ethan. He was someone with an amazing aptitude for learning. …
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2016
June
15,
2016
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09:59 AM
America/Chicago
When James arrived home from work one evening, he found his little boy, Nickolas anxiously waiting for him.
James saw Nickolas with a football. He’d waited a long time to throw and catch a football once again with his dad.
It …
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May
12,
2016
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09:44 AM
America/Chicago
The three nurses looked at each other at a loss on how they could help the baby girl crying on the echocardiography table.
Little Charlotte Friessen, 7 months old, arrived at Cook Children’s only 30 minutes prior and was rushed to the …
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May
01,
2016
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00:00 AM
America/Chicago
Colleen Rustin grew up in Fort Worth and graduated from the University of Arlington. But it wasn’t until she grew up that she learned about Cook Children’s.
In 2011, she shadowed a social worker in the Emergency Department, and after …
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April
29,
2016
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09:55 AM
America/Chicago
Being a cardiothoracic nurse practitioner isn’t an easy job. It means spending long hours monitoring, counseling and educating heart surgery patients during one of the most stressful times of their lives. For Crystal Flores, it also means …
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February
24,
2016
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11:18 AM
America/Chicago
Kenda Hooker was 3 years old when doctors discovered a hole in the top chamber of her heart. Like many congenital heart defect (CHD) patients, she went on with her life assuming her heart had been ‘fixed.’ As memories faded, her medical …
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February
19,
2016
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14:45 PM
America/Chicago
Dr. Scott Pilgrim’s resumé proves he’s the man to lead the Cook Children’s Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) program. But it’s his childhood that makes his care special.
Along with his medical degree, Dr. …
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2015
September
23,
2015
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10:14 AM
America/Chicago
Tori Pence has loved music since she was 7 years old when her grandfather gifted her with her first guitar. But it wasn’t until she was admitted to Cook Children’s that her passion for music flourished.
In October of 2012, at the age …
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2014
December
25,
2014
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09:04 AM
America/Chicago
Crystal Schober blogs for us today, telling us the remarkable story of Graysen, her little boy. She has a lot to celebrate this holiday season as her little boy turns 10 years old.
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April
07,
2014
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16:56 PM
America/Chicago
From the moment his parents named him, Xander Vento’s purpose in life seemed set. He was going to be a hero. Xander’s name translates to “defender of man” in Greek.
Xander drowned when he was 4 years old trying to rescue a …
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