Children's National Medical Center treats and heals children locally, nationally and globally. The following stories highlight a few of our patients who found hope at Children's National.
Five-year old Jeroy started feeling poorly in September, catching a bug from his younger brother, Jarel. Jarel quickly felt better, but Jeroy eventually had a fever of 104 degrees. To complicate..[More]
Mateo and McHale were conjoined twins who were successfully separated by a multidisciplinary team from Children’s National in a 19-hour surgery on September 6, 2009. [More]
Maren was immediately taken into surgery after birth. She had a procedure called the Norwood operation, which is the first in a series of three open heart surgeries performed on babies whose left ventricle and aorta are too small to supply blood to the body... [More]
Three years ago triplet boys: Austin, Barak, and Christian were born. It took a delicate transport from a community hospital, three surgeries, and a long stay in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) before Barak was able to go home with his brothers and parents...[More]