Valley Children’s Healthcare stands at the forefront of being a leader in the delivery of pediatric medical care here at home, across the Central Valley, and the state. The fast pace of delivering effective and safe care demands ongoing education and training. Medical simulation-based education is a technique that creates a situation or environment for individuals to experience a representation of a real patient event for practice, learning, evaluation, testing, or to gain an understanding of systems or human actions. Research has proven that the use of simulation training improves the quality of healthcare, education, patient safety and outcomes.
The vision of the Valley Children’s Interprofessional Simulation Program is to become a nationally-recognized leader and partner in an innovative pediatric interprofessional simulation program. Led by Medical Director Dr. Tara Lemoine and fueled by a generous $1 million gift from Mr. Marvin and Mrs. Janell Boldt, the team is accomplishing their vision. In fiscal year 2021, the Simulation Program hosted 2,391 total learners, including physicians, residents, nurses, respiratory care therapists, pharmacists, patients, family members, technicians, and students participating in a total of 4,100 hours of simulation experience.
“The Interprofessional Simulation Program continues to deliver high-quality education with innovative programs that reach our workforce, patients, families and community alike,” said Dr. Tara Lemoine, the Medical Director of the Interprofessional Simulation Program. “We look forward to the growth of the Interprofessional Simulation Program as a flagship of state-of-the-art training that improves the delivery of safe patient care, utilizes progressive technology and implements forward-thinking solutions to positively impact children in the Central Valley.”
We are grateful for the Boldt family’s generous investment that has catapulted the Interprofessional Simulation Program to such rapid success.
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We thank the Good Fellows for their incredible support through this year’s Good Fellows Luncheon, an annual event steeped in many years of tradition. The 2022 Good Fellows Luncheon raised $16,000 for Valley Children’s Hospital, and we were fortunate to meet three-year-old Noah when he brought the generous contributions made during the event.
Noah is an excellent student, swimmer, and t-ball player who likes books, dinosaurs, trains and trucks (especially fire trucks and street sweeper trucks). Perhaps most remarkably, Noah is a fourth generation Good Fellow.
Valley Children’s offers its gratitude to Noah and his fellow Good Fellows for their remarkable generosity.
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Brian's mom, Patricia, didn’t notice a difference in Brian’s enthusiastic personality; instead, it was the low-grade fever and worsening tightness in his neck and back that prompted them to bring him to the Valley Children’s Emergency Department in June of 2020. Once there, Brian was given antibiotics for treatment, but over the course of a week, he continued to get worse. Brian had pain on one side of his leg -- then it would seemingly go away -- only to begin on the other leg, causing him to limp.
When Brian's condition didn’t improve, he returned to Valley Children’s where his family got the heart-wrenching diagnosis. Brian had stage four neuroblastoma, a rare, cancerous tumor that forms on nerve tissue. “You feel like the world just stops, and you’re in shock," says Patricia. "You can’t believe you’re hearing those words, hearing your son has cancer.” His course of treatment began immediately at Valley Children’s.
Over the next 22 months of treatment, Brian’s oncology team walked Brian and his family through a rigorous care plan with the latest treatment options and provided the knowledge to make decisions every step of the way. Demonstrating that good things come in small packages, Brian bravely fought through surgery to remove the tumor on his right adrenal gland, a bone marrow transplant, numerous MRI scans, rounds of chemotherapy, radiation and multiple other life-saving treatments.
Now happily back home in Tulare, Brian is enjoying getting back to being a kid.
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Valley Children’s Healthcare Foundation has received the Platinum Seal of Transparency from Candid (formerly known as GuideStar), an organization that promotes nonprofit transparency by monitoring and evaluating charity performance.
Candid notes, "Foundation Center was the largest source of information about philanthropy globally, and GuideStar was the largest source of information on U.S. nonprofit organizations. In 2019, the two organizations joined forces to become Candid, enabling us to enhance the services we offer to the millions of people who rely on us to help them make the world a better place."
This recognition demonstrates Valley Children’s commitment to transparency in fundraising and dedication to stewardship.
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Stop by Walmart and Sam's Club locations in the Central Valley from June 13 to July 10, and please consider donating to benefit kids treated at Valley Children's Hospital. Walmart's fundraising efforts each year provide substantial support to help Central Valley kids receive the care they need. Since 1991, Walmart has generously contributed more than $4 million to Valley Children's Hospital. |
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