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Learn about our Cardiac Intensive Care Unit


Children's National performs the largest volume of pediatric surgeries annually in the Washington, DC, area, often in the first few days of a newborn's life.

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Ryan M's Story

Ryan Morales and Kurt Newman

Father and son Ryan and Alex Morales know what it’s like to spend days—even weeks in the hospital. The two have been patients at Children’s National Hospital for more than 10 years. Their stories are connected by Children’s National physicians who have been treating them since 2005 and continue to see them improve and grow in more ways than one.

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Share your birthday with a child. Celebrate your life, and give a chance to someone who desperately wants to have as many as you. Make it happen