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Lucile Packard Children's Health ServicesPediatric Division of UCSF Stanford Health Care |
Articles and Information
- Choosing a Doctor - When anticipating birth or adoption, one of the most important, yet difficult decisions you will make is choosing a doctor. This article may be helpful.
- Caring for Diaper Rash - Most babies will get a diaper rash at some time. Rashes are easier to prevent than to cure and this article will help you do both.
- Your Child's Check-up - A great article about how to help your child before and during a potentially scary visit to the doctor.
- Prevention of Sleep Problems - A practical and very helpful article for parents of children from birth to age one.
- Hay Fever and Allergies - Hay fever is one of the most common allergies. Here are 11 very good suggestions to help prevent symptoms if your child has hay fever.
Contacting Lucile Packard Children's Health Services
- Visit them at:http://children.ucsfstanford.org/
- Call them at: Parent Information and Referral Center:
1-650-498-KIDS or 1-800-690-2282
- E-mail them at: pirc@lpch.stanford.edu
About Lucile Packard Children's Health Services
Lucile Packard Children's Health Services (LPCHS) is the integrated pediatric enterprise of UCSF Stanford Health Care, the organization that brings together the clinical programs of University of California San Francisco and Stanford University Medical Centers. LPCHS provides regional pediatric tertiary medical and surgical services. LPCHS combined services are at the 265-bed Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford and at the 133-bed Children's Medical Center at UCSF"s Moffitt-Long Hospital in San Francisco.
Their combined medical centers offer a great depth of resources for children's care: 223 general acute care pediatrics beds; 42 pediatric intensive care beds; 118 neonatal intensive care beds; dedicated pediatric operating rooms; radiology and diagnostic support; infusion and day hospital units. More than 1,200 specially trained nurses and hundreds of other dedicated pediatric health professionals make up their patient care teams. In addition, their programs integrate perinatal and neonatal management for the benefit of mother and child.
Over the years, the institutions that now make up LPCHS have developed well- respected children's special needs. Life-saving and life-sustaining developed here include:
- Clinical advances in treating lymphoma, leukemia, brain tumors and bone tumors with combinations of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy, including a 95 percent survival rate for children suffering from Hodgkin's disease.
- Development of a leading congenital heart disease program. Their teams perform more than 900 congenital heart surgeries in children each year. Advanced pediatric cardiac care includes early routine total repair in infants as a standard treatment for Tetrology of Fallot, fetal echocardiography, drug treatment and coil embolization for ductus ateriosus, and electrophysiology for children with complex rhythm imbalances.
- Prenatal diagnosis and fetal treatment, including surgery, based on decades of experimental fetal physiology. The Fetal Treatment Center is the world leader in fetal surgery. Our team offers corrective fetal surgery from the 18th through the 30th week of pregnancy for congenital diaphragmatic hernia, cystic adenonmatoid malformations of the lung, urinary tract obstructions and sacrococcygeal teratoma, and other more unusual fetal abnormalities.
- New treatments for eating and sleep disorders
- Enhancement of organ transplantation, including the first domino heart transplant and first single-lung transplant. Their kidney and liver transplant unit is one of the three largest in the country based on volume and best in the world on outcomes.
- Their researchers were the first to develop prenatal tests for sickle cell anemia and thallasesemia.
- Both UCSF and Stanford operate Level III neonatal intensive care units
- These achievements were possible because ot the close collaboration between outstanding clinical practitioners and equally outstanding basic science faculty at Stanford University and UCSF.
