C. S. Mott Children's Hospital
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The Mott Touch
A baby’s first tentative steps across a nursery…catching a snowflake on the tip of your tongue…enjoying an ice cream cone on a summer day…giggling with friends at the back of the school bus. These are just a few of the ordinary — yet extraordinary — moments of growing up. For children with illnesses or serious injuries, however, childhood may take a different path. Regardless of the road ahead, we will be there to care for you.
C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital is known worldwide for its excellent clinical, educational and research programs. Experienced and innovative colleagues with diverse expertise collaborate to provide the highest-quality family-centered care for pregnant women, newborns, children and adolescents.
So, what makes Mott Hospital one of the nation’s leading pediatric health care institutions? Three basic elements: experience, expertise and heart. Take a look at some of the many reasons Mott is a leader and best in pediatric care:
- For more than 10 years, Mott has been the only hospital in Michigan whose doctors perform pediatric liver transplants. Patients are as young as one month, and the average transplant recipient is six months old.
- Mott is the only facility in Michigan to offer a Pediatric and Adolescent Home Ventilator Program. In 2004, volunteers from Mott, the U-M School of Architecture and Design and the community at-large helped design and build the Trail's Edge Camp tree house - the first tree house in the United States created especially for children who are wheelchair and ventilator-dependent.
- Surgeons at the Mott Michigan Congenital Heart Center were among the first in the nation to perform open heart surgery on children, and they continue to pioneer surgical procedures to correct congenital heart defects.
- The Mott Child and Family Life program, created in 1922, was the first of its kind in the nation to offer in-hospital education to help children keep up with schoolwork and recreational activities to facilitate social and emotional development. Today, it is still considered one of the best.
- Mott is the first children’s hospital in the Midwest to have an operational patient computer network connection – the Mott Family Network - with computers at every bedside for patients and their family members to use during the hospital stay.
- Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, a system that provides temporary heart and lung assistance, was developed at U-M. The Mott Holden Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, the first NICU in the state, was among the first in the world to offer this therapy, along with other respiratory treatments. Today, it is used worldwide.
