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  • The Impact of Music Therapy on Our Pediatric Patients

    This blog was written in conjunction with Agnes Hsieh, a board-certified music therapist at Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children.

  • Winning the pacifier war

    My daughter has had an intense, rapturous love affair with the pacifier for the past 2 and-a-half years. I’m certain that if the world were ending and she had the choice to keep for herself either Mommy or her bee-bees (her word for pacifier), she would choose the bee-bees any day of the week. I try not to take it personally.

  • The Howard Phillips Center for Children & Families

    At Arnold Palmer Hospital, children and families are our priority. That’s why we offer empowerment resources for the family unit and the community.

  • Why antibiotics aren't always the answer

    When our kids get sick, we often feel desperate for relief and many parents look to antibiotics to help their children get better faster.

  • Orlando Health Treats First Pediatric Patient using Proton Therapy

    ORLANDO, FL. (May 26, 2016) – When Zayne Burton’s parents, Lori and Chaz, heard the diagnosis that their 12-year-old son had a medullablastoma, a tumor of the brain and spine, they were in shock. Quickly, however, their focus turned to treating the curable cancer so their son could go on to live a healthy life. Their journey brought them to The Marjorie and Leonard Williams Center for Proton Therapy at UF Health Cancer Center - Orlando Health, which had just opened, becoming the first proton center in Central Florida to treat patients us-ing proton beams, a type of radiation therapy, to shrink tumors. Just weeks after his diagnosis and surgery to remove the tumor, Zayne, a 7th grader from Orlando, began proton therapy treatment at UF Health Cancer Center - Orlando Health, becoming the first pediatric patient treated in Central Florida with this revolutionary treatment option.

  • DJ: President of the Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children Teen Leadership Council

    DJ doesn’t remember much of what happened right after the hard tackle that caused his life-changing injury. He does remember the numbness when he woke up at Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children on July 25, 2017. DJ and teammate on football fieldJust 16 years old at the time, the injury occurred while he and his teammates on the South Lake High School football team were participating in summer scrimmages, preparing for the upcoming season. A short time later, he was in a hospital bed, unable to move from the neck down.

  • How do we talk to our kids in the aftermath of tragedy?

    It’s hard to know what to say to each other, ourselves, but especially, our children. Once again, we all woke up to news that there was a horrific mass shooting- and for those of us in Central Florida, it was reminder of what previously took place right in our own backyard.

  • How clinical trials make a difference in the lives of kids with cancer

    This September is Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month. To truly understand how important this awareness month is to all pediatric oncology patients and their families, it’s important to recognize some of the key statistics regarding pediatric cancer. 

  • How can you talk to your kids in the aftermath of tragedy?

    Fred Rogers’s mother was right. Finding the helpers brings our children peace. Finding them reminds the kids that there are good people in this world, people that will risk their lives to save others, people who will give their time, their money, their wisdom, and their kindness to bring comfort and help to others.

  • Pediatric Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit

    The Pediatric Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children is specifically designed to meet the needs of patients who are recovering from cardiac surgery.