Meet Karina Karina Barreto-Delgado was sitting in her high school English class on a typical Friday morning, taking a test, when the call came. For six months, the 15-year-old resident of Visalia,...
Going the Distance: Clinic Prepares Team for a Lifetime of Good Health
Meet LaJay LaJay Phillips has a fan club at the Teen Liver Transplant Transitioning Clinic, and it’s easy to see why. Now 20 years old, LaJay is one of the clinic’s success stories and serves as an...
Expanding the Realm of Possibility: 10 Breakthroughs in Pediatric Organ Transplantation Pioneered at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
1. Big Org ans for Little Kids “Because of the chronic shortage of organs for children, we’ve had to get creative,” says Carlos Esquivel, MD, PhD. He was one of the first surgeons to tailor a liver...
In June, U.S. News & World Report honored Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital as one of the nation’s top children’s hospitals, placing six of our specialties in the top 15, and nine additional...
On June 23, more than 3,000 participants joined us at the sold-out Packard Summer Scamper and helped raise over $360,000 for Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, more than doubling last year’s...
Meet Elena Though many pregnant women rush to the hospital during labor, few arrive as Tara Sharp did, flying 90 miles by emergency helicopter from Sebastopol to Palo Alto. Her doctors at Lucile...
Foundation for the Future: Hospital Expansion Update
Private patient rooms, advanced medical technology, and added space for clinical services, medical research, and training and education – all are benefits of the Packard Children’s expansion project...
All Grown Up: From Tiny Transplant Patient to Thriving Young Adult
Miranda Ashland is one busy girl. A thriving high school senior from Saratoga, she’s filling out college applications and starring in her school’s production of Oliver! — and even recently won a...
Packard Children's Breaks Ground: Transformational Expansion Now Under Way
In early September, Packard Children’s broke ground on a 521,000-square-foot expansion. The project will add 150 patient rooms, specialized operating rooms, and the most advanced technology available...
Treatment for Life: Research, Therapy, Long-Term Care Converge at Bass Center
Twenty years ago, a child diagnosed with cancer faced a short life filled with toxic chemicals, long hospital stays, and multiple surgeries. Treatment took a “one-size-fits-all” approach, and the...
