This is PediCast.

Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.

And now, direct from the campus of nationwide children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.

Hello, everyone, and welcome.

Once again to PDACast.

It is a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike coming to you from the campus of nationwide children's hospital. We are in Columbus, Ohio. It's episode 543 for August 29th,

2023. We're calling this one Children's Miracle Network. I want to welcome all of you to the program.

So today we are going to explore the many ways in which the Children's Miracle Network supports

children's hospitals throughout North America.

And you've probably seen the balloons, you know, hanging up at places like Walmart,

Costco, Dairy Queen, and many other corporate

partners of the network across the country.

But who exactly is the Children's Miracle Network?

How did it get started?

What are the founding principles of this organization?

And does donated money stay local, or is it shipped off to other locations?

And in what ways does the Children's Miracle Network support care of patients,

research, and education of future pediatric professionals at its member hospitals?

We will have answers to these questions and many more as we journey through today's episode.

And as it turns out, this was a really fun one for me to research because I grew up in an age of a network TV.

You know, we didn't have cable or the internet. I know, gasp. It's really actually difficult imagining that world today.

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