Children's National Medical Center treats and heals children locally, nationally and globally. The following stories highlight a few of our patients who found hope at Children's National.
Mateo and McHale Shaw were conjoined twins who were successfully separated by a multidisciplinary team from Children’s National in a 19-hour surgery on September 6, 2009. [More]
Maren, the Robinson’s newborn daughter, was immediately taken into surgery after birth. She had a procedure called the Norwood operation, which is the first in a series of three open heart surgeries performed on babies whose left ventricle and aorta are too small to supply blood to the body... [More]
Three years ago, Debbie Harris gave birth to triplet boys: Austin, Barak, and Christian. It took a delicate transport from a community hospital, three surgeries, and a long stay in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) before Barak was able to go home with his brothers and parents...[More]
