For as long as Deb Young, Ask Children’s nurse in Children’s After Hours, can remember, she’s been captivated by babies of all kinds. Her mother recognized her softheartedness, allowing Deb to bring home stray kittens, rescue abandoned baby birds and bunnies and care for the neighbor’s younger children. By the time Deb graduated from high […]
New Physician Listens to the Voice of the Patient
Although a patient’s room at Akron Children’s Hospital Pediatrics in Green doesn’t look like a recording studio, when new physician Leigh Wells, DO steps in the room she’s ready to hear the next big thing. She’s not looking for a one-hit wonder, rather she’s ready to listen and provide one-to-one care that gets infants, children […]
For Dr. Jennifer Burkam, it’s all in the details
The first things you may notice about Dr. Jennifer Burkam, our new pediatrician at Akron Children’s Hospital Pediatrics in Green, is her kind personality and warm smile. The one detail people often miss is how she spells her last name, without an ‘h.’
