Press Releases - 2019

News and announcements on our leading research and innovative, world-class care for children and expectant mothers.

December 9 Stanford Medicine Children’s Health opens new inpatient cancer center and outpatient heart center—boosting capacity for specialty care
December 9 Brain function irregular in children with Type 1 diabetes, study says
December 4 Repairing children’s heart valves with patients’ own tissues at Stanford Children’s Health
November 14 With new hospital, Stanford will have separate adult, pediatric emergency departments
November 6 Normal Body Weight Can Hide Eating Disorder in Teens, Study Finds
October 21 Stanford Children’s Health opens new Specialty Services Center in San Francisco
September 25 Stanford Children’s Health and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford achieve Magnet® recognition
September 19 Stanford Children’s Health earns 2019 CHIME HealthCare’s Most Wired Recognition
September 18 Brain tumors form synapses with healthy neurons, Stanford-led study finds
September 9 Stanford Children’s Health appoints Rick Majzun Vice President and COO
July 21 School readiness impaired in preschoolers with ADHD symptoms
June 5 Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford re-verified as a Level I trauma center
May 1 Hormone reduces social impairment in kids with autism
April 30 Bay Area community nonprofit support by Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford reached $2.7 million in 2018
April 24 A rare pulmonary defect prompts parents’ nationwide search for answers
April 18 Tad and Dianne Taube commit $6 million to the Stanford University School of Medicine for pediatric cancer research
April 5 Stanford and UCSF award seed funding to top device developers at pediatric device accelerator pitch competition
March 28 Seth Ammerman, MD, founder of Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford Teen Van, retires
March 11 Nurse gifts guitar inscribed by Ed Sheeran to teen undergoing kidney dialysis
February 11 How a nursing perspective plus a scientific approach can refine patient care
February 4 Squaring off against cancer on World Cancer Day
January 7 Stanford Children’s Health chief information officer receives Healthcare CIO of the Year Award