It’s been three years in the making for Girard High School senior Kada Williams, but she finally got the chance to be one of her school’s Teen Outreach members through Akron Children’s Hospital Mahoning Valley. The program exposes area high school students to leadership training, career opportunities in the medical field and community service projects […]
Girseal Dixon hits the ground running as Beeghly campus’ first “Foster Grandparent”
Girseal Dixon has spent a lifetime raising and working with children. She’s been a mother, a grandmother, a great-grandmother, a foster parent, a school lunchroom aide, a daycare owner and a scout leader. And each child, she says, has been a blessing. Now Dixon is the Beeghly campus’ first “Foster Grandparent,” a pilot program launched […]
Back pain’s insights into love and compassion
I can’t even begin to explain how grateful I am for chronic low back pain! It might sound crazy, but it’s true. Besides helping me see the love and passion I have for people with injuries or diseases, I am so excited that God also used my back pain to bring me to Akron Children’s Hospital – as a therapy patient, and also as a volunteer this summer.
Patient gives back through volunteering
Akron Children’s Hospital has played a vital role in my life. At age 2 I was hospitalized here with a broken femur. In 2008 I found out I had scoliosis. I tried a chiropractor to fix it with exercises and back adjustments, but the curvature rapidly increased. A few months after finding out I had […]
