The Child Life Program will use these funds to ensure access to medical play and special visits and events to lift their spirits.

Primary ciliary dyskinesia can be hard to recognize and is often misdiagnosed – being mistaken for asthma, allergies, or bronchitis.

In celebration of having the hospital’s first baby of the year, parents Jaenenne Nunez and Israel Rodriguez received a special “First Baby Basket”.

The Sports Medicine Fellowship teaches primary care physicians to work with a team in a dynamic environment.

This year marks the 60-year tradition for newborn babies being sent home in commemorative stockings.

This annual event is coordinated by the Child Life Program at Miller Children’s & Women’s, whose mission it is to help make the hospital experience more positive for all pediatric patients.

Creating moments, like Santa visiting, helps to lift patients’ spirits and give them a sense of normalcy.

“World AIDS Day is an important reminder that this disease hasn’t gone away.”

This award recognizes a physician for their clinical excellence in teaching and advancing care to the next generation of physicians and provides the recipient with a $10,000 grant to continue their impactful work in medical education.

The center also offers psychosocial programs such as family support, disease education, counseling, and school support services.