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The Injury Prevention Center receives $40,000 Allstate Foundation Good Starts Young® grant, enabling them to bring healthy relationships program to local high schools in 2019-2020

Connecticut Children’s Injury Prevention Center (IPC) welcomes two new students into its expanded Hayley Petit Injury & Violence Prevention Fellowship Program. The students will spend the fall semester learning injury and violence prevention strategies from Connecticut Children’s experts who are nationally recognized leaders in their field.

Connecticut Children’s has been named to the Most Wired list of hospitals for the third consecutive year. In addition, Connecticut Children’s specialty clinics also received this year’s inaugural Ambulatory Most Wired Award for excellence. Hospital winners are recognized for making it easier for patients and providers to interact, thus improving communication, safety and patient-provider relationships.

Connecticut Children’s bariatric surgery program is the first and only pediatric program in Connecticut awarded national accreditation by the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP): the combined accreditation program of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the American College for Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS). The highly prestigious recognition designates Connecticut Children’s as an MBSAQIP Adolescent Center, making Connecticut Children’s bariatric surgeons and clinical staff the most qualified and up-to-date in surgically treating children with metabolic disorders.

Connecticut Children’s has been tapped as one of the first institutions in the U.S. to offer a new gene replacement therapy to treat spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).