Other hospitals measure success by how many beds are filled.

We measure success by how many of our beds are empty.

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On any given day, you’ll find kids in therapy, kids cooking, kids on the slide with brothers and sisters, eating with parents. You might even see a kid playing Challenger Baseball in a wheelchair. And then there are the kids you won’t see. Because they’re at the zoo or the mall or, heck, if it’s winter, maybe they’re skiing.

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we don’t see illnesses,

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kids.

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Consider Amari.

Like all toddlers, Amari loved to explore and interact.

He came to us after an extended stay in the neonatal intensive care unit. Born four months premature, he suffered from multiple complex conditions including chronic lung disease and a severe narrowing of his airway.

His condition was extremely precarious, but he didn’t seem to know it.

It was a joy for all of us to watch him grow and get strong enough to go home with his parents.

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“ Without the courage to challenge that ‘stay in the room’ mentality, i don’t think amari would have done nearly as well.” K at h y J u d K in s , R n , C PnP

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From surviving to thriving at Ranken Jordan.

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From surviving to thriving at Ranken Jordan.

The children we take care of are the sickest of the sick. Our kids suffer from traumatic brain injuries, cerebral palsy, burns, spinal cord injuries, premature birth and developmental delays. Getting them out of bed and back to life starts with belief and determination.

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the ranken jordan approach | care beyond the bedside

Passion and dedication are at the core of these outcomes. But they are not enough. It also takes a tremendous amount of discipline, teamwork, technological ingenuity, and innovation.

It takes a space that is designed for the care of sick kids but doesn’t feel like a hospital. Most kids receive care in the 80 square feet around their hospital bed. Our kids have 35,000 square feet.

It takes portable technologies, such as the backpacks we’ve modified to hold the technology that keep our kids alive. We’ve optimized portable IV pumps, feeding pumps and monitors so we can keep up with a child on the move.

We get amazing

results

for kids.From being in a coma, Albert is on his way to becoming an inspirational speaker. Kyla celebrated her fifth birthday at home with her family, a birthday she wasn’t expected to celebrate at all. Zach’s mom was told he might never be able to roll over. Today he chases frogs.

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It takes safety protocols and instant communication tools that help our kids stay safe on even their most ambitious adventures.

It also takes a team that includes physician pediatric specialists, psychiatrists, nurses, respiratory therapists, pediatric nurse practitioners, certified nursing assistants, recreational therapists, child life specialists, speech-language therapists, social workers, physical therapists, pediatric pharmacists, occupational therapists, volunteers, dietitians, and care coordinators. All working together to get our kids out and about.

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Finally, it takes caring for families along with kids. Because more than anything, our kids need healthy families to thrive.

Rise & shine!waKing uP

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you won’t see our kids in hospital gowns. they get dressed every day.

A day in the life at Ranken Jordan.

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We know how important it is to get even the very sickest kids up and out of their hospital beds and back to the work of childhood: play.

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Families and caregivers come, too!

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Or is it playtime? it feels like that (almost always).

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“ in 22 days, otto went from not being able to wiggle his toes to walking.” O t t O ’ s M O M

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exercises and activities with small groups of peers.

intense therapy. Music and movement. infant massage for babies.

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if a child needs therapy to help with swallowing, this may happen at lunch.

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“ ranken Jordan took me from being solitary to getting out and forming bonds and relationships. the nurses are all my besties.” C e C iL i a

“ it’s very fun.” O t t O

During waking hours, two thirds of our patients are not in their beds.

“ Margaret loved the kitchen. she couldn’t eat because she had a trach, but she got to lick things.” M a Rg a R e t ’ s M O M

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Playing on the playground with sibs, video games, movies, golf. nap anyone?

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MORe adventuRes, exPeditiOns & aCtivities

Field trips usually happen on Fridays.

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“ i pictured her in bed laying there in a body cast. they said, ‘absolutely not — they’re up every day and they’re hardly ever in their rooms.’” s a s hiK a’ s M O M

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this year the zoo has been doing outreach with us.

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eating in the dining room with friends, family and caregivers.

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winding dOwn, Ready FOR Bed

Bedtime stories. hugs. Meds.

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“ ranken Jordan gave us a new life, when we thought our life was over.” JaC K s in ’ s da d

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“ the results we’ve had from four weeks are remarkable. kim is now doing things she’s been unable to do for the last two years.” K iM ’ s M O M

Just as there is no typical patient, there is no typical day.

gOOd night!

Dr. Nicholas Holekamp is the Chief Medical Officer at Ranken Jordan. To the kids, he’s just Dr. Nick.

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We see it time and time again.

Kids get better when they feel

better.

the ranken jordan approach | dr. holekamp’s perspective

Being out and about says to a child, “I can play. I can make cookies. I can go to the zoo or the mall. I can be a kid.”

Just as important, it says the same thing to families and parents. The seeds for this way of caring for kids were planted back in the 1940s when Mary Ranken Jordan founded Ranken Jordan to care for children recovering from polio and tuberculosis.

The kids who come to us today are harder to get out and about, because many of them depend on the technologies we invented to save them to keep them alive. So it’s more of a challenge. We just have to work harder.

I give tours every week to students. I tell them, “You’re not going to see a facility like this anywhere else.”

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We know our approach works, because we’ve seen it work in the lives of our children for over 70 years.

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Ranken Jordan is a pediatric specialty hospital providing rehabilitation and

subacute medical treatment for seriously ill and injured children

regardless of their families’ ability to pay.

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©2011 The Ranken-Jordan Home for Convalescent Crippled Children