Pediatrics stories

It’s the phone call that all parents fear: a call alerting them that their child has been admitted to the ER. Terri will never forget the call that roused her out of bed one morning.

Since he was four-years-old, Branden Baxley had lived with focal seizures that were adequately controlled by medication. Last summer, his epilepsy spiraled out of control.

Sitting with LiAna Patterson, her mom, Debbie, and dad, Rob – who serves as medical director of the Studer Family Children’s Hospital at Ascension Sacred Heart Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) – you would never know she suffered a traumatic accident.

Running through the Mother Seton Garden playground at the Studer Family Children’s Hospital at Ascension Sacred Heart, you’d never know 6-year-old Elliot Rowell was once a patient here.

At six months pregnant, Talisa Jackson was faced with every expectant mother’s worst nightmare.

Meredith Harrison had a very normal pregnancy, so when her son was born with a heart defect, it came as a total shock.