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Immunization for Your Kids- When, What, How?
Immunizing kids—babies, children, adolescents and also preteens—is often the best way to protect them from many contagious and serious diseases that can affect them throughout their lives. So it’s...
Hope is a Powerful Medicine
Philanthropy has been part of the PHS culture since we opened our doors for business in 1990. Since formalizing our giving and volunteering by introducing the Sharing Care program,...
Dreams of Building a Kid-Focused Hospice Home in MN are Coming Closer with Crescent Cove
“It all started as a dream of offering child and family-focused respite and end-of-life care to children with life-limiting conditions in Minnesota” ~Katie Lindenfelser, founder of Crescent Cove Did...
PHS to Conduct Clinical Study on Tracheobronchitis
Starting this fall, PHS will be conducting a clinical observational study in its tracheostomy dependent patients. One of the most common medical conditions that occur in pediatric patients with...
Sending Kids With Asthma Back to School
By: Kay Kufahl, RRT-NPS, LRT, AE-C and Barb Lehn, RRT-NPS, LRT, AE-C It happens every year. Commonly called the September Asthma Epidemic, researchers have tracked a predictable increase in...
Back-to-School Lessons to Help Keep Your Child Infection Free
Once you get your children back to school, you’d also like to keep them there. School allows kids to learn from other kids through projects and play. Yet school...
Hassle-Free Family Visit to the MN State Fair
All-you-can-drink milk, $1. Scavenger hunts. Tractor rides. Watching a lamb come into the world. Everything to eat on a stick. The great Minnesota get-together, the Minnesota State Fair, runs...
10 Tips for Vacation With Medically Complex Home Care Kids
Travel allows you to change up your routine and enjoy time away, but for medically complex children and their families, it can be a scary concept. To help take some...