n many ways my trip last month to Flint, Mich. — now the symbolic epicenter of how bad decisions, bad politics and ill-advised money-saving measures can seriously and permanently harm children — was more depressing than the first time I visited that struggling city in 2016. Read the full story at The Washington Post
After watching her older sister get fluoride varnish applied to her teeth, 3-year-old Trashal Rai started crying when it was her turn. The Nepalese sisters weren’t in a traditional dentist’s office. Instead, they were receiving care in a mobile clinic parked along a curb outside Family Health Services‘ Twin Falls medical clinic. Dental hygienist Lindsey
“We don’t know what would have happened if he hadn’t found us, we don’t know where his life would’ve been,” Vento said. Since the Orlando Health program began in 1997, over 15,000 uninsured teenagers have received medical or mental health care services. Read the full story and see the video at WKMG ClickOrlando
As congress debates funding to prevent the government from shutting down it must also fund expired federal programs like the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) that ensure health access to children and families. According to data just published, there are more than 82 million peopleliving in more than seven thousand primary care Health Professional Shortage Areas
Most U.S. states don’t require that children be screened for health conditions that can affect learning, according to new research supported by the Children’s Health Fund (CHF). Read the full story at Reuters
Health care for 9 million children is at risk, as states begin to notify families that they may need to seek other insurance options. CHF’s Dr. Marcee White, Medical Director of The Children’s Health Project of D.C. speaks to Soledad O’Brien and Matter of Fact about The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Watch the full
While a largely restored economy brings glad tidings and hope to many in our country at the end of 2017, low-income families remain burdened with a host of unresolved issues that threaten to undermine the child health safety net they depend on. So, as we give thanks and celebrate the holidays, we must remember this
Dr. Irwin Redlener addresses the growing crisis of child homelessness in New York City on The Leonard Lopate Show. Listen to the full interview at WNYC.org
A Port Washington student chose to pay it forward for her 10th birthday by encouraging family and friends to donate funds for hurricane relief in lieu of gifts. Téa Cotronis, a fifth-grader at John Philip Sousa Elementary School, reaped $400 last month after she sent out birthday invitations with a note at the bottom requesting
William wouldn’t show his eyes. The guarded, gaunt 10-year-old gazed at the floor of Dr. Irwin Redlener’s mobile pediatric unit parked in his Brooklyn neighborhood, answering the pediatrician’s questions in monosyllables. Then Redlener, who dreamed up the mobile unit — a big blue bus — with his wife, Karen, and singer-songwriter Paul Simon to bring health
The Florida flooding didn’t deter Lisa A. Gwynn, D.O., M.B.A., CPE, FAAP, for long. Based at Miami Miller School of Medicine, she oversees a pediatric mobile health clinic affiliated with the Children’s Health Fund, as well as nine school-based health clinics. Before the clinic went back on the road to see patients, Dr. Gwynn had
Dr. Julie Kaplow founded the Trauma and Grief Center at the University of Michigan in 2012 before moving it to the University of Texas Medical School at Houston in 2014, and then to the Texas Children’s Hospital in August, before Harvey struck. The center will open the Harvey Resiliency and Recovery Program in early October