Who We Help
St. Mary’s children are challenged by a broad spectrum of conditions, including chronic illness, serious injury, complications of premature birth, post-surgical programs (including transplant), cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury, severe asthma, congenital heart disease, neurological, respiratory, orthopedic disorders, and HIV/AIDS.
These conditions often require long-term, complex, interdisciplinary care from a team of trained pediatric specialists, including physicians, nurses and nurse practitioners, speech, occupational and physical therapists, nutritionists, psychologists, social workers and others.
St. Mary’s consider the patient to be both the child as well as his or her family. Through a family-centered approach to care, we strive to keep families actively involved in care planning and treatment to help them better manage their child’s condition.
St. Mary’s Helps All
St. Mary’s Hospital for Children is dedicated to helping all children, whether near or far. St. Mary’s donates rehabilitation equipment and medical supplies to the Pediatrician for Central America’s Children-a non-profit organization working to improve healthcare for children in Central America. For St. Mary’s staff, sickness has no boundaries and compassion has no limits. While caring for patients right here in the hospital, St. Mary’s staff also lend their heart to those across the world.
Robin & Zachary Portnoy
Patient families
From the moment we arrived at St. Mary’s, our family was offered hope. Zachary Portnoy was admitted to St. Mary’s at just four years of age, after two strokes from surgery to remove a brain tumor had left him in a coma. Zach’s surgeons said there was little hope for recovery. That’s when his parents found St. Mary’s.
Learn more about little Zach
