Our hope for our Kids’ Health and Wellness Hub is that it will be a source of easily accessible, trustworthy information for families.
Keith J. Loud, MD, MScDartmouth Health Children’s has launched a Kids’ Health and Wellness Hub on its website—a one-stop shop dedicated to providing expert advice to parents and caregivers on kids’ health, growth and behavior. The Kids’ Health and Wellness Hub features articles and videos with concise bullet points, organized by topic and with search capability, to help families easily access factual, science-based information that’s easy to understand and apply.
Each post in the Health and Wellness Hub features a Dartmouth Health Children’s pediatric expert and addresses frequently questions, trending topics, and resources including links to more information on the topic and how to get connected with a provider. Current featured Hub posts include what to know about concussions, safe sleeping practices for newborn babies, and why Dartmouth Health Children’s is following the American Academy of Pediatrics’ vaccine guidelines.
“While we live in an era where information is more readily available than ever before, too much of that information, which is widely disseminated by social media, is misunderstood, misconstrued, or just flat out incorrect, especially when it comes to our health,” said Keith J. Loud, MD, MSc, physician in chief of Dartmouth Health Children’s. “Every parent wants the absolute best for their child, but with so much competing information, it can be confusing and difficult to know what to trust. Our hope for our Kids’ Health and Wellness Hub is that it will be a source of easily accessible, trustworthy information for families navigating any and all questions about their children’s health, from treating tummy aches, to encouraging healthy eating habits, to supporting mental and emotional wellbeing.”
Visit the Dartmouth Health Children’s Kids Health and Wellness Hub at childrens.dartmouth-health.org/kids-health and check back frequently for updates.
About Dartmouth Health
Dartmouth Health, New Hampshire’s only academic health system and largest private employer, serves patients across New England. Dartmouth Health provides access to more than 2,300 providers in nearly every area of medicine, delivering care at its flagship hospital, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH. Its network of hospitals, outpatient centers, clinics and home care facilities, spans a broad geographical area. Year after year, DHMC is named the #1 hospital in New Hampshire by U.S. News & World Report, and is consistently recognized for high performance in numerous clinical specialties and procedures. Dartmouth Health includes Dartmouth Cancer Center, northern New England’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers and one of less than than 60 total nationally; Dartmouth Health Children’s, which includes the state’s only children’s hospital (Children’s Hospital at DHMC/CHaD) and more than 20 locations around the region; eight member hospitals in Lebanon, Keene, Claremont, Hampstead, and New London, NH, and Windsor and Bennington, VT; Dartmouth Health Home Care; Dartmouth Health Connected Care Center for Telehealth, serving patients as far away as Texas; and more than 30 primary and multi-specialty clinics across New Hampshire and Vermont. Through its partnership with Dartmouth College, Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and the White River Junction VA Medical Center, Dartmouth Health trains nearly 400 medical residents and fellows annually and performs cutting-edge research and clinical trials with international impact. Dartmouth Health and its more than 16,000 employees are committed to serving the healthcare needs of everyone in the communities it serves and to providing every patient with exceptional, state-of-the-art, personalized care. Learn more at dartmouth-health.org.
About Dartmouth Health Children's
Dartmouth Health Children’s is the only comprehensive pediatric healthcare system in the region with the first integrative medicine children’s hospital in the country. Fully integrated in Dartmouth Health and anchored for more than 30 years by Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (CHaD) in Lebanon, NH, Dartmouth Health Children’s promotes health, advances knowledge, and delivers the best patient- and family-centered care for infants, children, and adolescents across New Hampshire and Vermont. Dartmouth Health Children’s conducts groundbreaking research and educates the next generations of health professionals as the primary pediatric partner of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Highly skilled, inclusive, and collaborative children’s health professionals provide care in multiple settings across the region. A unique partnership between DH and the state of New Hampshire provides the only inpatient psychiatric care for children and adolescents in the state at Hampstead Hospital. Outpatient specialty visits and same-day surgery services are available at more than 20 locations, including all Dartmouth Health member locations, throughout New Hampshire and Vermont.