“If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” was my first thought when VCU Medical Center announced yesterday that they were going to build a new Children’s Hospital. I never cease to be amazed at how work is accomplished in Richmond. After the VCU Health System Advisory Board met in April without formal discussion of the […]
Something really important will happen next week in Richmond, and if you would like to be a part of shaping the healthcare options of our children and grandchildren… You have to write to the Power People. They are meeting to consider building our new children’s hospital. Imagine what it would look like. They are the […]
“Isn’t telling part of the truth the same as telling a lie, Mommy?” With coffee in one hand and the OpEd page in the other, I knew I needed to explain, and I knew that the eyes of a child see complex things very clearly. As a pediatrician and mother of five, I write this […]
A picture is worth a thousand words, and as often as I write about our city’s need for a free-standing, full service children’s hospital, I wondered recently if I ought to switch to pictures… I sent a letter to the editor of our local newspaper recently; they sent my letter back. “You need to edit seven hundred […]
I attended a Groundbreaking Ceremony for the VCU Medical Center/Children’s Hospital of Richmond and its “planned-for-2014” outpatient pediatric clinic facility… and I’m sure I was the only one who left in tears. Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU is the official name of our city’s only full service hospital for children, but most people would […]
A true Children’s Hospital for my patients and my children. The good news? It’s a GO on the feasibility of this $500 million, 200-bed hospital. It would serve only children, with every subspecialty and service that a child could ever need…ALL UNDER ONE ROOF, and we will have more than enough patients who need this facility […]