Children's Hospital of Michigan

Congrats to Dr. Kelly Levasseur, our first winner of the "You Rock Doc!" that recognizes physicians for going above and beyond. Dr. Levasseur recently led the Choosing Wisely campaign, which aims to promote conversations between clinicians and patients to choose evidence-based care that is free from harm and truly necessary. It was recently adopted by both the United States and the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians.

And this doc continues to "rock" both in and out of the hospital! Fun fact: Dr. Levasseur is an avid horseback rider and recently competed in a national horse competition in Kentucky with her horse Luminous. Congratulations Dr. Levasseur!

From our family to yours, we wish you a ! Best wishes for a safe, prosperous and healthy new year as we head into 2023 🎉

🧡💙 In honor of their son and former Children's Hospital of Michigan patient Bryson, Ashley and Nick, stopped by this week to donate holiday bags for the families. Each bag contained a large fleece tie blanket, DoorDash card, and a book! Drawing from their own experience, they started the Bryson and Baker Batt Foundation, which supports NICU families and those that have lost a baby. Thank you, Batt family, for bringing some joy to our NICU families.

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Sending you and your family warm wishes this from all of us at Children's Hospital of Michigan. Habari Gani!

Wishing all of our patients and their families a very ! May your holidays be filled with joy, laughter, love and good health 🎅🎄☃️

❤️ Baby’s first Christmas! It’s an annual tradition to bring holiday cheer to families with babies in the Children's Hospital of Michigan . This year Santa even joined in on the fun 🎅 just look at these precious gifts dressed in their best Christmas outfits 🎁! Share a photo of your baby’s first-holiday photo below in the comments as we celebrate !

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🎉 Time to celebrate: 11-month-old Samia, who has been in the Children's Hospital of Michigan for 216 days, is going home just in time for the holidays (and her 1st birthday on Monday!). Samia, who was born premature and experienced several health complications after birth, was all smiles during her clap-out, where staff lined the hallways to cheer her and her mom Aaliyah on as the PANDA team took them home. Congratulations Samia!

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After being a bit nervous during a recent kidney biopsy at Children's Hospital of Michigan, 6-year-old Nephrology patient Jacob, wanted to help other kids in the hospital be brave, so he created Jacob's Bravery Boxes!

The bravery boxes contain little activities and toys to keep kids occupied during blood draws and other procedures. To start, Jacob hosted a bottle drive that raised $500, which he spent to purchase the items for the boxes. Together with the help of his classmates, they assembled 100 boxes and dropped them off at the hospital! What an incredible act of kindness!

Conner’s 6th Annual Pajama Party had everyone feeling warm and fuzzy. Conner and his family donated 700 holiday pajamas to hospitalized children at Children's Hospital of Michigan over the holidays. The tradition started when Conner was a baby in the Children’s and received a pair of holiday pajamas. This small, sweet gesture so moved his family that they decided to pay it forward by collecting and donating holiday pajamas for our patients every year. Thank you, Conner and family, for making the season brighter for our patients and families 🎉

🎄Last night truly shined bright as the annual Light Up The Night Tow Truck Christmas Parade at Children's Hospital of Michigan took place! 200+ tow trucks and police vehicles from across Michigan and Ohio visited and spread some holiday cheer with their decorated rigs! Even Santa stopped by to meet with a few of our patients 🎅

On top of bringing the smiles for our patients, the tow truck drivers hosted a fundraiser and raised $1600, benefiting the hospital through our partners at the Children's Foundation. We would like to thank everyone involved in this event that helped make it such a great success.

We want to celebrate the Children's Hospital of Michigan PANDA One transport team! With our partners at Superior Ambulance Service, we have completed 1,156 pediatric transports this year, including 171 flights on our recently launched helicopter. We are proud to be Michigan’s only dedicated pediatric and neonatal ground and air transport team. Click to meet our team: http://ow.ly/6Xyn50M2vTg and check out the photos below of some of our "honorary" PANDA team members dressed as our PANDA ambulance and helicopter 🚑 🚁

❄️ Flurries of fun were had this year at the Children's Hospital of Michigan Snowpile 2022! This annual event focuses on the entire family, providing gifts for children hospitalized during the holidays and their siblings. Thanks to our partners at the Children's Foundation and our generous community donors and volunteers, more than 300 kids benefited from this year’s event! We cannot be more thankful to everyone, who helped make this event a success!

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Thanks to our friends at The Bottomless Toy Chest for coming by this week and bringing Tons of Toys to our patients this holiday season! Truly a wonderful event that meant so much to our Children's Hospital of Michigan families.

Last week, we celebrated our employees who reached an important milestone in their careers at Children's Hospital of Michigan during our annual service awards ceremony. We had 223 recipients ranging from 5 years to 50 years of service! Congratulations to all the honorees, and thank you for your years of dedicated service to our patients and families.

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As a part of month, some of the Detroit Red Wings significant others stopped by Children's Hospital of Michigan to spend time with our patients & distribute Love Your Melon hats! It meant so much to our families to have them come out for a few hours, and so many smiles were had as patients decorated hockey pucks and signs!

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💜 November is , which is a time when we celebrate like Emma. 5 years ago, Emma was diagnosed with which is a brain condition that causes seizures. Since then, Emma has become an advocate for epilepsy by helping spread awareness about the disorder and giving hope to other kids like her. Click to learn more about our nationally ranked neurosurgery program and the Level 4 epilepsy center at Children's Hospital of Michigan: http://ow.ly/RRgK50LKTzG.

🦃 We are so grateful for the families who put their care in the hands of our dedicated health professionals at the Children's Hospital of Michigan. Thank you for letting us be a part of your lives. Have a safe and happy .

❤️❤️ Happy from our Children's Hospital of Michigan family to yours! We're so grateful for our patients and their families who trust us with their care. This year, we are especially grateful for our staff, nurses, physicians and community. What are you grateful for?

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In February, Reem Siddiqui, a junior at Cranbrook Schools, whose mom is a pediatrician in our sickle cell clinic, presented Children's Foundation with $12,000 through her nonprofit, MiCaringHeart, to help provide transportation for sickle cell patients at Children's Hospital of Michigan who need help getting to their appointments.

Since then, about a dozen patients have used those transportation services. One of them is 2-year-old Elijah Williams, who lives in Clinton Township. Because his family does not have reliable transportation, Elijah would not be able to make his monthly appointments if this program did not exist. Thanks to Reem’s donation, Elijah and his family can now take a cab to and from the hospital. To learn more about Reem's story, click the link: http://ow.ly/WUTL50LJIXE

Today, we take a moment to show compassion and support for families experiencing the anxiety of premature births by observing , created by March of Dimes. As a Regional Level IV NICU, we’re proud to offer our community the highest level of neonatal care for the sickest and most high-risk patients. At Children's Hospital of Michigan, our patients receive expert care from board-certified neonatologists and pediatric subspecialists and we offer specialized care with programs like our Neonatal Neurocritical Care. To learn more about our NICU services, click the link: http://ow.ly/4zqB50LG024

🐾🌈 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of one of our Children's Hospital of Michigan pet therapy dogs, Honey. As a pet therapy dog, Honey spent her days at the hospital bringing cheer and comfort to our patients and families. Most recently, she dressed as a Honeybee 🐝 for Halloween to bring smiles to our patients faces during the holiday. She will surely be missed by all.

The annual Festival of Trees event returns Nov 20-27 to kick off the holiday season! Proceeds from the event support pediatric medical research at Children's Hospital of Michigan, which has raised more than $9 million over the years to help countless children and families at Children’s Hospital of Michigan. To purchase tickets, visit https://fot.org/wp/.

Today, Children's Hospital of Michigan celebrated Veterans Day to honor the hard work and dedication that our military team members have provided during their time serving this country with a brief celebration in our lobby today at exactly, 2:11pm.

The Veterans Day Moment of Silence calls on all Americans to observe two minutes of silence on Veterans Day, beginning at 2:11 pm Eastern standard time, in honor of the service and sacrifice of veterans throughout the history of the nation. The 2:11 pm time was chosen because in 1918, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, was declared between the Allied nations and Germany in World War I.

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Recognizing those who have proudly served our country. Thank you veterans, both past and present. Our country's greatness is built on the foundation of your courage and sacrifice. Wishing everyone a happy .

Congratulations to all our physicians named to Hour Detroit Magazine's Top Doc list for 2022. To make an appointment with a Children's Hospital of Michigan doc, visit http://ow.ly/WUpO50LyWQR. To view the complete list of honorees, visit: http://ow.ly/jopr50LyWQU.

For after-hours care, visit the Children's Hospital of Michigan Walk-in Pediatric Clinic, open Monday-Wednesday, 5pm-8pm at the Detroit Specialty Center (3950 Beaubien Blvd). The after-hours clinic provides convenient care for health needs that are not life-threatening but can’t wait until the next day. To learn more, visit: http://ow.ly/IzXi50Lcemn

Join our team! We're hiring this Wednesday, November 9th. Walk-In Wednesdays are an opportunity to interview for a wide variety of positions, including RNs, sitters, patient care associates and many more. Learn more at http://ow.ly/Ja4l50L7xoz. We look forward to meeting you!

🎃 Our Children's Hospital of Michigan teams went all out for and now we need your help to determine who "wore it best" for team member costume contest!

This year we will have three best costume categories: individual, small group (less than 10 employees) and large group. The winners will be determined by the most “likes” on Facebook. Voting is until 4pm tomorrow so cast your votes for your favorites below by hitting the "like" button!!

🎃👻🧡 Our littlest boos are ready for their first ! It’s an annual tradition for our babies to dress up at Children's Hospital of Michigan and this year's theme is Monster Masquerade Ball 🎭. Having our NICU families join in on the holiday fun helps bring a sense of normalcy to parents during an otherwise stressful time. What did your baby dress up as for their first Halloween?

🏈 Game day babies! Our youngest fans are ready for the Michigan Football v. Michigan State Football game! Go blue or go green? Comment below with a blue or green heart for the team you are routing for today 💙💚

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🌼 Congratulations to this month's Children's Hospital of Michigan winners: Sydney Bommarito Goodes, RN and Amanda Johnson, RN! Sydney and Amanda were the nurses of Weston, a patient in our . Weston's mom nominated them, saying they "were my support system the five months my son was in the hospital. They let me vent, hugged me on my scariest days, and would come into work on their days off to sit in on family meetings with us. I don’t know what I would have done without them during that time."

Yesterday Children's Hospital of Michigan partnered with Gift of Life Michigan and Be The Match to host a where people were tested to see if they could be a match for a child in need of a bone marrow transplant, a child just like 19-month-old Noah.

Noah was diagnosed with osteopetrosis, a rare disorder that causes bones to grow abnormally and become overly dense. After receiving a bone marrow transplant last fall, Noah is doing great and is even running around since he learned how to walk! His mom Paige even paid it forward by getting tested to help kids like her son Noah.

Register today to see if you are a match: http://ow.ly/C6BU50LkJSE