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Advancing Care Beyond the Bedside: Ranken Jordan Leading Change in Pediatric Care

Advancing Care Beyond the Bedside: Ranken Jordan Leading Change in Pediatric Care

by Dr. Nick Holekamp, Chief Health Transformation Officer | Mar 24, 2026 | Patient Care & Innovation

At A GlanceNick Holekamp, MD, became Ranken Jordan’s Chief Health Transformation Officer in October 2025, a role created to bring systemic change to the care of medically complex children. The Chief Health Transformation Officer role, as well as Ranken Jordan’s...
Decreasing Tube Dislodgement Through the Power of Play

Decreasing Tube Dislodgement Through the Power of Play

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...
4 Ways We Keep Kids Playing at Ranken Jordan When It’s Cold

4 Ways We Keep Kids Playing at Ranken Jordan When It’s Cold

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...
Harmony’s Story: How We Care for the Families of Our Patients

Harmony’s Story: How We Care for the Families of Our Patients

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...
Why Care Beyond the Bedside is so important: 5 takeaways from our published paper in ‘Children’

Why Care Beyond the Bedside is so important: 5 takeaways from our published paper in ‘Children’

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...
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