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The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) announced that Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s Primary Care Network has received Recognition from the Physician Practice Connections –Patient-Centered Medical Home (PPC-PCMH) program for using evidence-based, patient-centered processes that focus on highly coordinated care and long-term participative relationships. The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is a promising model of health care delivery that aims to improve the quality and efficiency of care. PPC-PCMH identifies practices that promote partnerships between individual patients and their personal clinicians, instead of treating patient care as the sum of several episodic office visits....

Dermatology maintains a clinic on the main campus of Nationwide Children’s Hospital, as well as in Dublin, Westerville and Canal Winchester, Ohio. Please note the locations below and follow the links for maps and directions. For clinic questions, call the main Dermatology clinic number at (614) 722-5777. Nationwide Children’s Hospital Outpatient Care Center, 3rd Floor 555 S. 18th Street Columbus, OH 43205 Phone: (614) 722-5777 Fax: (614) 722-5510 Hours: Monday - Thursday: 8 am - 4:30 pm Friday: 8 am - 3:30 pm Canal Winchester Close To Home 7901 Diley Road, Suite 150 Canal Winchester, OH 43110 Hours: Monday and Wednesday: 8 am - 1 pm Dublin Close To Home on Venture Drive Medical Office Building 5665 Venture Drive Dublin, OH 43017 Hours: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday: 8 am - 4:30 pm Main Campus Surgery Center (Outpatient) 700 Children’s Drive Columbus, Ohio 43205 (614) 722-2000 Westerville Surgery Center (Outpatient) 455 Executive Campus Drive Westerville, Ohio 43082 Hemangioma and Vascular Malformations Clinic - Main Campus 700 Children’s Drive, Suite T5E Columbus, Ohio 43205 Hemangioma and Vascular Malformations Clinic - Westerville Surgery Center 455 Executive Campus Drive Westerville, Ohio 43082...

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Contact Information Call us at: (614) 722-3900 Fax us at: (614) 722-3903 General Pediatric SurgeryPediatric Surgery700 Children’s DrColumbus, OH 43205 (map) Learn more about Rajan K. Thakkar Biography Rajan K. Thakkar, MD, FACS, is a pediatric surgeon. Dr. Thakkar is the Trauma Medical Director as well as the Co-Director of the Burn Center at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. He is an Associate Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and is a Principal Investigator at the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences Research at the Research Institute of Nationwide Children’s Hospital....

Infantile spasms are seizures that often cause a delay in development. This means that your child may not have the same skills or behave the way other infants do at the same age. It is important to start treatment as soon as possible. Spasms usually begin between 3 and 12 months of age but can sometimes start at an earlier or later age. There are many possible causes of infantile spasms....

A “sharp” is any medical device that could cut or stick a patient, caregiver, or anyone else. There are reasons that your child may have to use sharps while at home. It is very important to know how to throw away (dispose of) syringes, needles and any other sharp device in a safe way. By disposing of sharps in the right way, you are keeping yourself, your child, other family members and your home care worker safe....

Speech Pathology provides comprehensive diagnostic evaluations and therapeutic treatment for speech, language, and voice disorders. The department provides services for clinical management of children from birth through age 21. To see current Speech and Language Pathology clinical studies being conducted at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, search the options below. Biology of Language Study (BLS) Purpose of the study The goal of the Biology of Language Study (BLS) is to examine how genes affect language skills and how they are transmitted through families....

As a parent, you want the best for your children. You work every day to protect them from harm. Sometimes that work means you have to have some difficult, often uncomfortable conversations – including ones about suicide. Talking to your child about suicide may be the toughest conversation you ever have, but it may also be the most important. Why It’s Important to Talk About Depression and Suicide Suicide is the second leading cause of death in the Unites States for kids ages 10-19....

Contact Information Call us at: (614) 722-6336 Fax us at: (614) 722-1753 PediatricsPatient Care Services700 Children’s DrColumbus, OH 43205 (map) Learn more about Ariel E. Murphy Academic and Clinical Areas Neonatology Nurse Practitioner Team Primary Department Pediatrics Primary Section Neonatology Education Date of Appointment at Nationwide Children’s Hospital: 09/05/2022 Board Certifications Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Graduate School Ohio State University College of Nursing Date Completed: 05/08/2022 Contact Information Pediatrics Call us at: (614) 722-6336...

Contact Information Call us at: (614) 722-4700 Fax us at: (614) 722-4718 Psychiatry and Behavioral HealthPsychology700 Children’s DrColumbus, OH 43205 (map) Learn more about Camille S. Wilson Biography Camille Wilson, PhD, is a pediatric neuropsychologist at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and clinical assistant professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University. Her clinical interests include pediatric neuropsychology and immunologic disease, centering on neuroimmune (demyelination syndromes and autoimmune disease), systemic lupus erythematosus, as well as chronic kidney disease....

Cheerleading has developed into a very disciplined and competitive sport. It incorporates much of the athletic demands of gymnastics but without mats. There has been a significant rise in injuries seen in the adolescent cheerleading athlete that can be life and limb altering. According to a study done by Brenda Shields, research coordinator at the Center for Injury Research and Policy, Nationwide Children’s Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, cheerleading injuries have more than doubled from 1990 to 2002....

Contact Information Call us at: (614) 722-6630 Fax us at: (614) 722-3122 Pediatric UrologyUrology700 Children’s DrColumbus, OH 43205 (map) Learn more about Christina B. Ching Biography Christina B. Ching, MD is a member of the Section of Pediatric Urology at Nationwide Children's Hospital. She received her medical degree from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and then completed a year of general surgery and five years of Urology training at Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, OH....

Our Services Adolescent Medicine By Appointment: (614) 722-2450 Behavioral Health By Appointment Call (614) 355-8080 to request an appointment or (614) 355-9580 for general questions fax us at: (614) 355-8030 Nephrology By Appointment: (614) 722-4360 Neurology By Appointment: (614) 722-4625 Nutrition By Appointment: (614) 722-5540 Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology By Appointment: (614) 722-2250 Rheumatology By Appointment: (614) 722-5525 Urology By Appointment: (614) 722-6630 Young Women’s Hematology Clinic By Appointment: (614) 722-8860...

It was a Tuesday evening. It was a typical night that turned out to not be typical at all. My baby, Jaya, and I were together in my room. I had just changed her diaper and she was doing her usual tummy time. Dad came by, but didn’t stay long because he had to go to work. Lying next to Jaya, I was talking to her and admiring her. I was a first-time mom and was so in awe and in love....

An intrauterine device (in tra U ter in de vice), or IUD, is a small, T-shaped device. It is placed in your uterus by your health care provider to prevent pregnancy, to reduce heavy menstrual bleeding, or to help reduce painful menstrual cramps or pelvic pain. Your IUD must be removed after you have had it in place for from 3 to 10 years. The timing depends on the type of IUD you have....

Contact Information Call us at: (614) 722-4086 Colorectal and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery700 Children’s DriveColumbus, OH 43205 (map) Learn more about Julie Gerberick Biography Julie Gerberick serves as a nurse Clinician for the The Center for Colorectal and Pelvic Reconstruction (CCPR) at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Julie has been with Nationwide Children’s Hospital for 28 years and joined the CCPR after serving most recently as the Education Specialist on the inpatient unit where The CCPR patients stay pre and post operatively....

Edward J. Kosnik, MD, FACS, FAAP, associate medical director of the Department of Surgery and chief of the Section of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Nationwide Childrens Hospital, was honored with the Ohio Neurosurgeon of the Year Award by the Ohio State Neurosurgical Society (OSNS) at the Societys annual meeting September 29. He is also a clinical professor of Surgery at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.The recipient of this award is chosen by the OSNS leadership to honor a surgeons dedication to caring for Ohioans throughout his career and to recognize his contributions to the quality of neurosurgery care provided....

Nationwide Children’s Hospital is the first hospital in Central Ohio to join the new statewide health information exchange (HIE) that will allow sharing of patient health information among medical professionals across the state. Currently, 89 hospitals in Ohio now are contracted with the Ohio Health Information Partnership, the Hilliard-based nonprofit that manages the exchange – called CliniSync. Thirty-seven hospitals are now live on the network , and more than 1,200 physicians have signed up for services with 700 already receiving results and reports directly from their local hospitals....

Families in Westerville and Dublin who utilize Nationwide Childrens Hospital Close To HomeSM Centers should note some of their services are moving to new locations in August. Behavioral Health at the current Westerville Close To HomeSM Center on 433 N. Cleveland Ave. is moving to the new Westerville Close To HomeSM Center on W. Schrock Rd. All other services will remain at the current Westerville Close To HomeSM Center on N....

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently awarded Aaron J. Trask, PhD, principal investigator in the Center for Cardiovascular Research at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, a $315K Shared Instrumentation grant (S10) to support existing, federally-funded researchers at Nationwide Children’s and The Ohio State University in a multitude of disciplines, including cardiovascular research, tissue engineering, microbial pathogenesis, biomedical engineering, perinatal research and childhood cancer. At Nationwide Children’s, Dr. Trask is the second recipient of this type of NIH grant, which will be used to purchase a state-of-the-art atomic force microscope (AFM) that will be a shared resource for both institutions....