Inside Our Current Physician Newsletter:

Our Pediatric Heart Program is Expanding

Steve Leonard, MD, and Damon Kennedy, MD, joined our medical staff this summer, bringing their expertise and experience in pediatric heart surgery to Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children in Denver.

>> Learn more about our Pediatric Heart Center, Drs. Leonard and Kennedy, and see how they fit into our High-Risk OB and Neonatal Care teams.

Challenges of the Extremely Low Birth Weight Neonate

Neonatologist Jeffrey Hanson, MD, of Pediatrix Medical Group, reviews the common health issues facing these neonates, as well as the related medical and ethical issues: resuscitate or not; mortality and morbidity, survival complications, and more.

>> Read more about Extremely Low Birth Weight Neonatal Challenges

Celebrating the Halfway Point for RMHC Expansion Project

Our new Pediatric Unit is open on 4C in downtown Denver at Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children at Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center.

>> Learn more about the expansion project.

New 320-Slice CT Scanner Provides Speed and Safety for Pediatric Patients

The Aquilion ONE can scan a child’s head or chest about 10 times faster than older, spiral CT scanners – in roughly 0.35 seconds instead of three to four seconds.

>> Learn about the 320-Slice CT as a wonderful new diagnostic tool for newborns, children and teens at Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children.

Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children Joins Denver Zoo in Honoring Pediatric Surgeon Jack Chang, MD

The public voted on a Mascot for the hospital and he's named after Dr. Chang.
>> Share in the fun and learn more about this wonderful partnership between two great Denver institutions.

>>  Download the September 2009 Issue 

Past Issues of our Physician Newsletter:

• President and CEO, Mimi Roberson introduces the hospital's administrative and clinical leadership
• Sky Ridge Medical Center signs Affiliation Agreement with Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children
• Pediatric Surgeon, Steven Rothenberg, MD, offers a clinical report on minimally invasive repair of chest wall defects in children
• Perinatologist, Richard Porreco, MD, Medical Director of the High-Risk Pregnancy Program, offers insight to his research into the implications of the proximity of an adult ICU to a high-risk obstetrics unit—an HDU-high dependency unit

>> Download the April 2009 issue

April 2009 Physicain Newsletter | Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children