When Home isn’t So Safe
Finding and Fixing Hidden Dangers
Finding and Fixing Hidden Dangers
The new Benjajmin Russell Hospital for children is an expansion of Chilldrens of Alabama, one of the 10 busiest pediatric hospitals in the nation, is home to Alabama’s only pediatric trauma center and the only pediatric burn center in the Southeast.
Camp Jared helps kids with special needs find the freedom of riding a horse. It was the dream of Ky Smith, owner of Equine Company of Alabama, and Jennifer Head, then a 16-year-old girl with spina biifida and big dreams.
According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, over 7,000 emergency room visits each year are due to backpack-related injuries. In 2010 alone, physicians’ offices, clinics and hospital emergency rooms treated nearly 28,000 strains, sprains
Children’s Hospital recently unveiled the “Wall of Inspiration” on the expansion facility currently under construction at the hospital in downtown Birmingham. The Wall lists names of some of the children treated here over the years.
