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Exceptional Care for Incredible Kids

Providing exemplary patient care is central to everything we do. With more than 130 years of experience, Blythedale is a nationally recognized leader in developing innovative, multidisciplinary inpatient programs. As one of only 14 specialty children’s hospitals in the United States, Blythedale has the combined staff, expertise and resources – including the largest pediatric therapy department in New York State – to provide exceptional comprehensive care for medically complex children and support for their families.

Types of Treatments

  1. Acquired and Traumatic Brain Injury

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    Blythedale Children’s Hospital is a longtime leader in the treatment of children recovering from brain injury including Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), post-infectious diseases such as meningitis or Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis (ANMDAR), brain tumors and stroke. The extraordinary multidisciplinary...

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    Conditions:

    • Coma
    • Encephalitis
    • NMDA Encephalitis
    • Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
    • Seizure Disorders
    • Stroke
    • Near Drowning
    • Meningitis
  2. Assistive Technology

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    Assistive Technology expands opportunities for children with special needs to increase participation in school, build social interactions, and access their environments in a variety of specialized ways. Blythedale’s dedicated team includes Assistive Technology experts from speech language pathology...

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  3. Cancer Rehabilitation

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    A customized therapeutic regimen enables patients to regain their strength and function while undergoing or recovering from surgery, chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy. We recognize the vital importance of an ongoing relationship with the child’s referring oncology team, and we participate in...

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    Conditions:

    • Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia
    • Leukemia
    • Medullablastoma
    • ALL
    • Astrocytoma
    • Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy
  4. Cardiac Rehabilitation

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    As more infants and children are undergoing complex cardiac surgical procedures to repair congenital conditions such as hypoplastic left heart syndrome, tetralogy of fallot, transposition of the great vessels, coarctation of the aorta, or cardiac injury due to myocarditis or traumatic injury...

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    Conditions:

    • Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD)
    • Artial Septal Defects with Ventricular Septal Defects (ASD with VSD)
    • Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT)
    • Ventral Septal Defect (VSD)
    • Tetralogy of Fallot (ToF)
    • Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS)
    • Open Heart Transplant (OHT)
  5. Complex Chronic Conditions

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    Many children come to Blythedale with multiple, complex chronic conditions that impact their function. These chronic conditions - including cerebral palsy, CHARGE syndrome, congenital and chromosomal abnormalities, severe epilepsy - can complicate recovery after surgeries, acute illnesses or...

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    Conditions:

    • Osteogenesis Imperfects (Brittle Bone Disease)
    • Cerebral Palsy (CP)
    • Congenital Anomalies
    • CHARGE Syndrome
    • Down Syndrome
    • Trisomy 13
    • Trisomy 21
    • Chromosomal Abnormalities
    • Lennox Gastaut Syndrome
    • Turner Syndrome
    • Severe Epilepsy
  6. Complex Post-Surgical Rehabilitation

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    Patients are admitted for acute medical and rehabilitative inpatient care following major trauma (such as head and spinal injuries, extensive soft tissue trauma/burns, vascular injuries, major muscle/ligament injuries, amputations or fractures), extensive scoliosis surgery, selective dorsal...

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    Conditions:

    • Dorsal Rhizotomy
    • Neuromuscular Scoliosis
    • Trauma
    • Multiple Fractures
    • Internal Organ Damage
  7. Complex Wound and Burn Management

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    The child’s clinical team works collaboratively with parents and other caregivers to identify developmentally appropriate medical and therapeutic goals. This team is also committed to meeting the psychological and social challenges that accompany burn and wound treatment and recovery, including body...

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    Conditions:

    • Severe Burns
    • Decubitus Ulcer
  8. Neuromuscular Disorders

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    The goal of our Neuromuscular Disorders program is to help children maximize their functional abilities through comprehensive medical care and rehabilitation, utilizing state-of-the-art technology, environmental modifications and adaptive equipment. Following an intake evaluation, the child’s...

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    Conditions:

    • Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS)
    • Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD)
    • Multiple Sclerosis
    • Spinal Cord Injury
    • Spinal Muscular Atrophy
    • Transverse Myelitis
  9. Post Acute Neonatal Care

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    Whether requiring ongoing medical management and rehabilitation due to extreme prematurity, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, congenital cardiac disease, pulmonary hypertension , hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, short gut syndrome, feeding disorders or other complications occurring in the neonatal period...

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    Conditions:

    • Extreme Prematurity
    • Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD)
    • Retinopathy of Prematurity (RoP)
    • Micro Preemie
    • Congenital Heart Disease
    • Short Gut Syndrome
  10. Pre/Post Organ & Stem Cell Transplant

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    These children require the highest level attention of a multidisciplinary team of pediatricians, pediatric physiatrists, nurses, nutritionists, pharmacists and physical, occupational, speech and feeding therapists familiar with the problems inherent in recovery from and living with a transplant. We...

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    Conditions:

    • Kidney Transplant
    • Heart Transplant
    • Stem Cell Transplant
    • Liver Transplant
    • Open Heart Transplant (OHT)
  11. Pulmonary Hypertension

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    Blythedale’s expertise in caring for the most medically fragile of children is evident in our Pulmonary Hypertension rehabilitation program. Children come to Blythedale directly from the Intensive Care Unit while receiving intravenous, inhaled, subcutaneous or oral medications for pulmonary...

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    Conditions:

    • Chronic Lung Disease
    • Chronic Respiratory Failure
  12. Pulmonary Rehabilitation

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    The goal of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation program is weaning from technology completely or to the least invasive support to facilitate the family's transition to home. Parents are involved in the care of their child every step of the way, and learn proper use of equipment, care of tracheostomy, and...

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    Conditions:

    • Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD)
    • Chronic Respiratory Failure
    • Pulmonary Insufficiency
    • Chronic Lung Disease
    • Laryngomalacia
  13. Specialized Feeding

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    Children referred to Blythedale for Therapeutic Feeding have wide-ranging conditions including prematurity, short-gut syndrome, brain injury, oral-motor dysfunction, aversion behaviors, cognitive deficits or post-surgical complications. Services for these children include evaluations for both...

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    Conditions:

    • Failure to Thrive (FTT)
    • Extreme Prematurity
    • Feeding Disorders
    • Transition to Oral Feeding from NG, GT, or G/J
    • Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN)
    • Neonatal Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC)
    • Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EOE)
    • Short Gut Syndrome