After more than 125 years of providing extraordinary care to sick and injured infants, children and teenagers, Floating Hospital for Children today takes on a new name - Tufts Children’s Hospital.
The financial impact of cancer, during treatment as well as during the years of long-term follow-up care, is experienced by many patients and survivors. AYAs may be further negatively impacted as they are historically the largest proportion of uninsured or underinsured patients.
Tufts Medical Center is the first hospital in the country to partner with Medically Home as part of the response strategy, moving some patients from inpatient to in-home hospital-level care.
Walter Suita’s most recent 5K race wasn’t his fastest, but it was one of his biggest victories. Just months earlier, a crushing 13-foot fall had shattered his hip.
When Justin Williams, 28, walked into his local emergency room in October of 2018, he was shocked to learn that the pain he was experiencing was not from the minor car accident he was in the day before. The physicians suspected cancer.
When Beth Korth learned she was pregnant with her first child in the summer of 2020, she and her husband Alex were excited, but also nervous. Not only would they need to navigate the pandemic throughout the pregnancy, but the couple shared a bone growth disorder called achondroplasia, more commonly known as dwarfism, that would make delivery more challenging.
Wendy Canty suffered a heart attack in 2018 at age 50. And soon knew she needed to find a new option and turned to Tufts Medical Center's heart research team to learn more about implantable heart pumps.