by Kristin LaRose, Chief Nursing Officer | Mar 11, 2026 | Patient Care & Innovation
At A Glance17-year-old Jatayvion “JT” Thomas was making a tackle at a football game when he sustained a spinal cord injury and was rushed to a nearby hospital, ultimately resulting in JT being diagnosed with quadriplegia. After arriving at Ranken Jordan, JT found an...
by Kristin LaRose, Chief Nursing Officer | Feb 26, 2026 | Patient Care & Innovation
At A GlanceAs part of its Care Beyond the Bedside model, Ranken Jordan offers a robust music therapy program, led by music therapist Mary Hitchcock-Reinhart, MT-BC. Music therapy is a clinical and research-based practice that uses music interventions to accomplish...
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 Shawn Dryden, Chief Executive Officer | Dec 29, 2025 | Patient Care & Innovation
At Ranken Jordan, we are so proud of how our team continues to innovate to move pediatric hospital care forward, and 2025 was truly one for the record books. We launched seven new initiatives, many of them the first of their kind in our state and one of only a few in...
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...
