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Mt. Pleasant Blythedale UFSD Welcomes Back Students
Initially created in 1971 by the New York State Legislature as a Special Act School District to educate a hospital population, the district has evolved dramatically over the past 46 years, particularly the partnership between the school and the Hospital...
Children Gain Strength and Function in Summer Upper Extremity Program
“Yes, I did it,” said Anthony Pastore of Harrison, N.Y., a longtime program participant. The spirited nine-year-old had just bowled a strike using his right hand. A difficult feat in and of itself, but for Anthony, it was even more...
Blythedale Back in the News
For the third time this week, Blythedale Children’s Hospital was featured in a television news broadcast. On Thursday night, WNYW-Fox 5 NY (Channel 5) highlighted the inspirational story of 14-year-old Tasnim Rahman of Brooklyn, a Blythedale patient who overcame near...
Blythedale Hits the Small Screen
Blythedale’s Upper Extremity Summer Program was featured on News 12 Westchester and Verizon FiOS1-Lower Hudson Valley on Monday, August 7th. The specialized, six-week program is designed to focus on helping pediatric patients with decreased use of one upper extremity due...
Blythedale Welcomes Pfizer Volunteers
They helped toddlers with arts and crafts projects in an Early Childhood Center classroom; went bedside to read to and play with patients; assembled "family welcome baskets" stocked with toiletries and snack items; and presented soft and cuddly "no-sew" blankets...
Blythedale Launches New TBI Program
The diagnosis is the #1 cause of disability and death among children in the United States. And, with medical uncertainty surrounding outcomes for many TBI patients, their futures are depend on understanding how the brain reacts to trauma and the...
