Providers need care and support, too. While looked upon as heroes to many families, providers are human, too. In today’s fast-paced workplace, providers are faced with unique challenges and stressors that are contributing to burnout, despite a devotion to the practice of medicine and the health of their patients. Issues such as less time with […]
Archives for March 2024
Nutrition and puberty: The best way to feed your child’s growth
Puberty is one of the most transformative and significant events in every child’s life: marking the transition from childhood to adulthood. As kids begin puberty, dramatic physical and emotional changes take place. Kids gain about 20 percent of their final adult weight, bone mass increases by about 40 percent, organs grow bigger and the brain […]
An emergency visit for stitches inspires the story of ‘Stitch’em Up Doug and the Wild Child’
As an active preschooler, Tristan Rhoades was running through the house when he fell and hit his head on the corner of his toybox. The injury resulted in a visit to Akron Children’s Emergency Department for stitches, where Tristan and his mom Rachel Knight first met Doug Lehner, one of our suture technicians. The experience […]
Dr. Richard Hertle, director of pediatric ophthalmology, set to retire from Akron Children’s
After fifteen years of service at Akron Children’s, Dr. Richard Hertle, director of pediatric ophthalmology, Dr. Boomer and Jill Burnstine Endowed Chair in Pediatric Ophthalmology and Pediatric Ophthalmologist will be retiring. Dr. Hertle came to Akron in 2010 to grow the Pediatric Ophthalmology service after six years as the chief of pediatric ophthalmology and […]
Ruth Weekley retires after a six-decade nursing career at Akron Children’s
Growing up in Evansville, Indiana, Ruth Weekley, PRN nurse in Akron Children’s Employee Health, dared to take chances and try new things. Ruth, who was the youngest of six children, spent school breaks working for a local lawyer and wanted to become a legal secretary. But a trip to Wisconsin to visit her older brother […]
Neuromuscular Clinic at 15 years: Multi-disciplinary team offers hope to families who once had none
Dr. Kathryn Mosher remembers a time when she had to explain to a parent what a diagnosis of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) meant – and there was no hope to be offered. “In the natural history of that disease, most children die by the age of two. If they do survive past that, they are […]
