Yet the shortage of beds across the United States is not simply the result of a deluge of sick children.Over the past two decades, hospital systems across the country have whittled down the supply ...

Prepare before your children get sick. Our sons' illnesses thrust us into the epicenter of the COVID-19, flu and RSV 'tripledemic' swamping hospitals. ... A search for a children's hospital bed.

Children’s Mercy Hospital said it currently has no available beds to treat sick kids. Children’s Mercy said it has more than 330 children in the hospital, including 15 kids who are waiting in ...

Sick children overwhelmed hospitals this past fall and winter, ... But for parents who waited hours, or even days, for their child to get a hospital bed, one thing became clear: ...

A common childhood infection is sending kids to Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in record numbers. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is affecting infants and young children and putting those ...

It’s a Tuesday night in January, and I’m going down to the children’s E.R. with the residents to see a toddler with a rash. I feel for the poor E.R. workers—as the highly contagious ...

Two words no parent of a sick child should have to hear: ‘At capacity’ September 2, 2021 Jessica Hurst tends to a young patient at Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock on Aug. 5.

Giuliana Demma, left, and her sister Audrina, right, sew pediatric hospital gowns in the basement of her Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. The sisters have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital ...

FREEHOLD, N.J. (AP) -- Fighting brain cancer, little Giada Demma was lying in her pediatric hospital bed, ... The sisters have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns to sick children in 36 states ...