by Dr. Nick Holekamp, Chief Health Transformation Officer | Feb 11, 2026 | Patient Care & Innovation
Because Ranken Jordan patients are medically complex, we have a much higher proportion of tracheostomized patients than most hospitals, as well as children with feeding tubes such as gastrostomy tubes (g-tube) or jejunostomy tubes (j-tube). Those who work with...
by Dr. Nick Holekamp, Chief Health Transformation Officer | Feb 10, 2026 | Patient Care & Innovation
When it’s snowy and cold outside, it’s easy to assume hospital activities would scale back. However, at Ranken Jordan, we don’t scale back… we keep playing. Play is central to our Care Beyond the Bedside®model because it’s a powerful tool for healing. Cold...
by Dr. Nick Holekamp, Chief Health Transformation Officer | Dec 16, 2025 | Patient Care & Innovation
Here at Ranken Jordan, we care just as much about our patients’ families as we do about our patients. It’s a critical part of our unique model, Care Beyond the Bedside: our goal is to get children out of their hospital rooms and home with their families. We know that...
by Dr. Nick Holekamp, Chief Health Transformation Officer | Sep 3, 2025 | Patient Care & Innovation
We’ve kicked off a new era at Ranken Jordan, creating a new department focused on scientific research and innovation with the goal to advance care for medically complex children. As part of our commitment to research, we published a review paper in the peer-reviewed...
by Dr. Nick Holekamp, Chief Health Transformation Officer | Sep 3, 2025 | Patient Care & Innovation
Since opening in 1941, Ranken Jordan has been committed to caring for children with complex medical needs. At the end of 2024, we made a major step in advancing that mission beyond the walls of Ranken Jordan: we created an official research department and hired a...
