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- Hospital in Eastern Missouri to receive the Missouri Quality
Award.
- Children's hospital to belong to a health system winner of the
Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.
- Hospital to provide Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
west of the Mississippi River.
- Electronic infant cardiac/breathing monitors in the region were
developed in hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
- First living-related liver transplant and the first split liver
transplant in Missouri.
- First infant kidney transplant in Missouri.
- In Missouri, and one of only five centers in the nation, capable
of offering transcatheter closure of heart defects using a "button"
device.
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in St. Louis and first to establish
a dedicated Neonatal Transport Team.
- Cleft Palate, Genetics and Neurofibromatosis clinics in the
state.
- Pediatric Sleep Disorders program and Lab in St. Louis.
- Hospital in the region to provide fully trained pediatricians in
the Emergency Department 24 hours a day.
- Level I Pediatric Trauma Center in the state
- The only dedicated Pediatric Rehabilitation Unit in Missouri.
- The only hospital in region to establish a Cord Blood Bank and
one of the first four in the nation.
- Poison Control Center in the Missouri and the third busiest in
the nation.
- First board-certified medical toxicologist in the St. Louis
region.
- To develop the PACTS/PALS for Life course which includes the
principles of pediatric advanced life support and the reality of
trauma. The program has educated more than 3,000 physicians, nurses
and paramedics from 18 states.
- Knights of Columbus Developmental Center and only
interdisciplinary evaluation/treatment team for children with
developmental disabilities in the region.
- Multidisciplinary comprehensive Hemophiliac Treatment Center in
the Midwest established in 1963. Was also first to establish a
Pediatric AIDS Center.
- To have one of only a handful of pediatricians in the nation
certified in sports medicine.
- And only multidisciplinary Myelomeningocele Clinic in eastern
Missouri.
- Multidisciplinary Elimination Disorder Clinic for children.
- To perform a laparoscopic node dissection for Genito Urinary
cancer in a child.
- First to set up molecular DNA testing of the most inherited form
of mental retardation (Fragile-X syndrome) in Missouri.
- And only center in Missouri to engage in both pediatric and
neonatal nitric oxide studies and subsequent protocols.
- To perfect a new radiology technique which shortened X-ray
exposure and reduced radiation risks in children.
- To operate and direct the research projects of the
Missouri/Illinois Hemophilia Diagnostic and Treatment Center.
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