The Nutrition Support Team Drives Julian’s Progress With TPN
While it may be hard to believe, a full term newborn baby has over 200 cm (or 80 inches) of small intestine – more than four times a baby’s...
Feeding Support
TPN Helps Hannah Manage Difficulties With Absorption
16-year-old Hannah spends her time doing a lot of the same things as her peers – going to football games, school dances, and now that it’s summer break, out...
ENFit Website Explains Changes To Enteral Connectors
If your child uses enteral supplies for their care, you have likely heard about the global ENFit changes and may already be using the temporary adapters for feeding bags,...
Studying home nasogastric feedings in children
Roy C. Maynard, M.D., is the Medical Director for PHS. He serves as PHS’s clinical leader, working with the team to provide consultation and advice to ensure quality and...
3 ways we celebrated Feeding Tube Awareness Week
Last week, our staff got busy getting tattoos and taking selfies around the office. And while that might sound like an odd way to spend time, it was all...
Health Care At Home Helps Aine Karate Chop a Poor Prognosis
When Aine’s mom, Nicole, found out that her daughter would be born with medical complexities (if she survived the birth in the first place), she was told not to...
25 Year All Stars: Meet Austin
At 5 years old, Austin loves superheroes, costumes, and his family (affectionately known as mama bear, daddy bear, and brother bear). His mom describes him as a jokester, a...
Timmy joins the decannulation club
As much as PHS loves providing home care nursing for patients so they can thrive at home, we also really love it when patients improve so much they don’t...