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26 Fredericksburg Parent and Family • March 2025 Mary Washington Healthcare Family-Centered Approach Guides Expert Care at the Area's Only Hospital Pediatric Unit When your child needs to be admitted to the hospital, you want to have the peace of mind that he or she will receive the same lov- ing, compassionate care that you would deliver at home. At Mary Washington Hospital a dedicated team of pediatric caregivers come to work every day to do just that. Mary Washington Hospital is home to the Fredericksburg region's only hospital pediatric unit. This 10-bed inpatient unit is staffed 24/7 by a team of pediatric hospitalists from Children's National Hospital and Mary Washington Healthcare physicians, as well as an all RN nursing staff certified in pediatric advanced life support (PALS) WRITTEN BY EMILY FREEHLING Access a Nationally Ranked Pediatric Program without leaving Fredericksburg For more than a decade, Mary Washington Healthcare has partnered with Children's National Hospital, ranked one of the top 10 pediatric hospitals in the nation by U.S News & World Report, to bring specialty pediatric care to two area hospitals. "We have a dedicated team of physicians from Children's National Hospital and nurses who are trained in pediatrics, who are eager and skilled to take care of the children admitted to our hospital," says Dr. Lana Ismail, MD, Pediatric Hospitalist with Children's National Hospital and Medical Director of the Children's National Pediatric Hospitalist Program at Mary Washington Healthcare. Pediatric hospitalists are board-certified pediatric physicians who care for children from infancy to adolescence in the hos- pital. Children's National pediatric hospitalists are available on-site 24/7 at both Mary Washington Hospital and Stafford Hospital. Children who come to either of Mary Washington Healthcare's free-standing emergency departments (located at Lee's Hill and Harrison Crossing) can also access the Children's National physicians through telemedicine consultations without having to move to another site for care. This partnership helps keep children and parents from having to receive care far from home. Six subspecialists now offer telemedicine consults in areas including infectious disease, hematology-oncology, gastroenterology, urology, nephrology and endocrinology. The Pediatrics Team

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