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Pediatrician’s Mom Recalls Summers Spent as Patient at Akron Children’s Hospital

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Rosie Kluth marvels at how much Akron Children’s Hospital has changed since she was patient over 60 years ago.

For 73-year-old Rosie Kluth walking the halls of Akron Children’s Hospital was like a step back in time when she and her family, including daughter Dr. Lisa Eggleston, a pediatrician in the Barberton office of Akron Children’s Hospital Pediatrics, stopped by for a tour on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

Rosie, who grew up near Youngstown, used to regularly travel to Akron during the summers between 1944 and 1952 to have corrective surgeries for a club foot and cleft palate. Rosie’s aunt lived in Akron and insisted she come to Akron Children’s for treatment after learning her niece wasn’t making progress under the care of doctors near her hometown.

“The bone in my leg was extremely distorted and it took dozens of surgeries and castings throughout my childhood to correct the problem since I was constantly growing,” Rosie said. “My mother never told me ahead of time when a surgery was scheduled because she didn’t want me to get anxious and worry. Instead, she would tell me the day before she got a call that a bed was available and we were heading to Akron.”

Club Foot + Cleft Palate = Multiple Surgeries

Pediatrician’s Mom Recalls Summers Spent as Patient at Akron Children’s Hospital

Rosie tours Akron Children’s Hospital with her family.

Rosie endured more surgeries through age 23 and eventually went on to pursue a career as a geriatric physical therapist. One of her first jobs was in a Cleveland hospital where she crossed paths with Dr. Ned Kluth, a dental resident, who fitted Rosie with an obturator – a prosthetic device that helped improve her hypo-nasal speech, a result of her cleft palate, which she was very self-conscious about.

“I endured a lot of teasing as a child and didn’t really feel comfortable with myself until I was a young adult,” she said.

As a gesture of thanks she invited Ned to dinner, even though she was dating an intern from New Zealand.

“My Italian mother who loved to cook commented that Ned seemed nice, but was too skinny,” Rosie recalled. “I remember telling her I just brought him to dinner; I’m not going to marry him!”

Fast forward 43 years, Ned and Rosie now have 2 adult children, Eric, a minister, and Lisa, in addition to 6 grandchildren.

Mother’s Experiences Taught Pediatrician Compassion

Pediatrician’s Mom Recalls Summers Spent as Patient at Akron Children’s Hospital

Ned and Rosie with their children Eric and Lisa

When asked whether her mother was an impetus for her career choice, Lisa said Rosie’s experiences have definitely influenced how she interacts with patients.

“My mom taught me compassion,” Lisa said. “As a child she spent many days alone in the hospital, but that didn’t mean she didn’t have a family who loved and cared about her. I’ve learned to not be judgmental or jump to any conclusions with my own patients. ”

Lisa joined ACHP Barberton in September 2014 when she and her husband, Justin, an emergency medicine physician at Akron General and 4 children relocated to the area from Wilkes-Barre, Pa., to be closer to family.

“ACHP has been a good fit for me,” she said. “It’s a great group of doctors, staff and administrators.”

In 2011 Rosie started to experience kidney failure and spent 14 months on dialysis before receiving a kidney from Ned. In 2013 she suffered a stroke.

Lisa credits her mom’s remarkable recovery from her recent health setbacks to sheer determination.

“The fact that she was a physical therapist is a big part of why she has recovered so well,” said Lisa. “She went from a wheelchair to a walker to a cane in a span of 3 to 4 months. She knew what to do to help her own rehabilitation.”

Rosie still has some coordination issues and slower reflexes, which caused her to give up driving. But overall she’s thankful for what she can do.

“I’ve never let my deficits define who I am and I’m not going to start now,” she said.

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Mom recalls relief after daughter began therapy at Akron Children’s 36 years ago

Claudia and Frances Anger in EnglandIt may have happened 36 years ago, but Frances Anger still remembers the devastation she felt upon learning her 6-month-old daughter had cerebral palsy.

It didn’t help the new mom-to-be when she was told her baby would likely never walk, talk or feed herself. Frances, resolute in her refusal to give up on baby Claudia, followed the advice of a friend and looked into the infant therapy services offered at Akron Children’s Hospital.

“We needed lots of help,” said Frances. “All the things most parents take for granted we had to work very hard for. The therapists gave me lots of encouragement and ideas for what I could do to help Claudia improve.”

Some of those ideas included learning how to do therapeutic exercises at home to help Claudia progress faster, and buying toys that would reinforce therapy goals such as dolls that needed their shoelaces tied.

“Those first few years were so important to Claudia’s development,” she said. “I don’t think we owned a single toy that didn’t have a dual therapy purpose.”

Frances and her husband looked forward to Claudia’s weekly therapy sessions because during that same time they participated in a parent support group with other parents of children with cerebral palsy.

“It was so helpful to learn tips from other parents who were going through the same things we were. It helped to know we weren’t alone,” she said. “We would share the names of physicians we liked, where to buy therapeutic toys or adaptive equipment, and where to go for support services in the community.”

ClaudiaFrances said it’s always been her goal to not treat Claudia as disabled.

“She could pretty much do everything any other kid could do with a few exceptions – it just took her a little longer to get there.”

Now 36 years old and living independently, Claudia long ago proved her initial naysayers wrong. She ran track for North High School, swam on a Special Olympics swim team for 17 years, and has held down various jobs at Walmart, Goodwill and Hattie Larlham since graduating from high school in 1998.

“Even though she’s nonverbal, she has made a life for herself,” said Frances. “She has an iPad-like device that speaks what she types so she is able to communicate.”

Frances feels strongly that things could have been very different had she not found Akron Children’s when she did.

“Those first couple years were so important to Claudia’s development,” she said. “I don’t know where we’d be today if we didn’t have the infant therapy team to start us off on the right foot.”


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Unconditional love Retired nurse reflects on decision to adopt babies with spina bifida

Wilson family portrait

Nelda Wilson has always loved babies. As a nursing student in the 1950s, one of her favorite jobs was working as a student feeder at Akron Children’s Hospital.

“I was in nursing school at Akron General and we would walk over and spend 2 hours feeding the babies in the evenings,” she said. “I always gravitated towards the babies with spina bifida (a neural tube defect which leaves the spinal cord exposed outside the body), but the nurses would tell me not to get attached because most of them didn’t survive. At that time there were no surgical options to close their spines and most of them died from infections.”

After being hired at Akron Children’s in 1961, Wilson continued to ignore the advice of fellow nurses and showered extra love and affection on the babies with spina bifida.

“They deserved to be loved just like all the other babies,” she said.

After reading an article in a magazine about an unmarried nurse in Pennsylvania who had adopted a blind baby, Wilson started to consider whether she could do the same for a baby with spina bifida.

In 1969 the opportunity presented itself when 10-day-old Patrick Clifford was transferred to Akron Children’s so Dr. Clifford Boeckman could perform a relatively new spinal closure surgery on him.

Slated to go to the Hattie Larlham Center for Children with Disabilities after his surgery, Wilson felt compelled to save him from a life void of maternal love.

“He was so feisty,” Wilson said. “It was already a miracle he had survived 10 days. I just knew I had to try and adopt him.”

Patrick.

Patrick

At the time, Wilson became the first single person in Summit County to adopt a child – paving the way for many others to follow in her footsteps.

She and Patrick made an unlikely family that defied modern day conventions of what families looked like.

That didn’t mean there weren’t some hurdles to overcome.

“When his first orthopedic doctor refused to brace him or allow for physical therapy until he was 5, I found another doctor,” Wilson said.

Wilson had a lot of things working in her favor including a father who built Patrick a standing board and a set of parallel bars for him to practice standing and walking at 13 months old.

Patrick went to preschool on a farm where he rode horses and played with animals – things even most typical kids don’t get the chance to do in preschool.

And what kid – typical or not – gets to sample the favorite homemade cookie of the sitting United States president?

“I took Patrick to the White House for a tour,” said Wilson. “It just so happened that the handicapped elevator came out in the White House kitchen. At the time they were baking President Ford’s favorite cookies and they gave us some to sample and take home.”

Wanting to expand her family for a number of years, Wilson learned of a girl with spina bifida who was living at Hattie Larlham. When she became available to adopt, Wilson jumped at the chance.

“Sarah was 3 ½ when she joined our family and she had many more medical problems than Patrick,” said Wilson. “But I was determined to give her as normal a life as I did her brother.”

Sarah's first day at Holy Family.

Sarah’s first day at Holy Family

Wilson believed her job as a mom was a natural extension of her job as a nurse.

“If I was going to intervene and save these children from a life of neglect, I was also going to try and give them the highest quality life I could,” she said.

Wilson’s push to always have her son and daughter treated normally has yielded 2 independent adults who now live in their own places, have jobs and hobbies that keep them busy.

Patrick, now 46, can be found on the amateur theater scene around town acting and auditioning, and 43-year-old Sarah has worked for Coleman Data Solutions as a data entry operator for 22 years.

In 1999, after 38 years of service to Akron Children’s, Wilson was forced to retire for health reasons. She volunteers at church and even keeps in touch with a former patient who helps her out around the house.

“I could never imagine working anywhere else,” Wilson said. “I loved the people at Akron Children’s and still go back annually for the retiree luncheon and the Holiday Tree Festival. It is the best place on Earth for children and their families.”

As part of our year-long anniversary celebration, we’re telling the story of Akron Children’s through the eyes of past and present employees, doctors, donors, volunteers and patient families. We encourage you to share your own memories and stories about us.

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Employee finds inspiration, new purpose in spite of loss

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They say home is where the heart is, and for Akron Children’s employee Amy Poder, that statement couldn’t be more true.

Having spent the better part of 1991 through 2007 bringing her daughter, Toree, to Akron Children’s Hospital for various appointments and therapies, the hospital was Poder’s second home for 16 years.

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Amy and her daughter, Toree

Born with cerebral palsy and Klippel Trenaunay syndrome, a rare congenital condition that affected Toree’s vascular and lymphatic systems, Poder had to make the difficult decision to have her daughter’s right leg amputated when she was 2 years old.

A part-time gymnastics coach for the better part of 17 years, Poder put her career on hold to care for her daughter as she got older.

When Toree died in September 2007 – days shy of her 16th birthday – Poder found herself mourning her daughter, but also missing the people, and the place, that had become her second family.

In March 2008, she read about a job opening at Akron Children’s Hospital’s Reinberger Family Center, a place where families can relax and escape during a child’s hospital stay. She decided to apply for the job and was hired.

In many ways, taking the job as an attendant in the respite center was like coming home to familiar surroundings and comforting faces that had helped her through some of the most difficult years of her life.

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“I enjoy meeting the families and developing friendships,” Poder said. “I just want to help improve their day in any way I can.”

“Nothing like Reinberger existed when I was bringing Toree in for care,” Poder said. “It sounded like a great fit for me and it also helped me find a purpose after Toree died.”

Hired to cover the midnight shift, Poder switched to days after a few years and now works 2 days a week in the center and spends the other 3 answering calls for Ask Children’s, an information and physician referral line.

During her days at Reinberger she greets visitors, stocks refrigerators, does laundry, makes beds, gives directions, calls on interpreters and sometimes even lends a shoulder to cry on.

The 6,000-square-foot center, located on the 2nd floor of the hospital, features a play room, kitchen, living room with TV, quiet room, lockers, pumping rooms for breastfeeding moms, 6 overnight sleeping rooms with private baths, and shower facilities.

Volunteer Louis Rudgers and Amy Poder

Volunteer Louis Rudgers and Amy Poder

Poder often works in tandem with a volunteer to ensure all the needs of visitors and guests can be met.

“Since Reinberger is set up for short-term stays, overnight guests are expected to check out at 10 a.m.,” she said.

Once they’re gone, Poder gets the rooms ready for future guests.

The Reinberger center has its own linens that are separate from the hospital’s supply, as well as its own washer and dryer. When the staff isn’t using the washer and dryer, patient families can use the appliances if they need something cleaned in a hurry.

Poder estimates she washes and dries 6 loads of laundry a day.

“Clean sheets are in high demand because sleeping rooms turn into napping rooms from noon to 5 p.m. for inpatient families,” she said. “At 6 p.m. we begin check-in for our overnight guests, so if someone was napping, we need to be ready to turn the room over again.”

It’s often a full house as overnight room assignments trickle in throughout the day from hospital social workers. Since the center opened in 2008, it has accommodated almost 12,000 overnight guests.

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Amy folds laundry with the help of volunteer Lois Rudgers.

Lactation rooms

The 5 pumping rooms are by far the busiest area of the center with more than 112,000 uses since 2008. Poder keeps busy stocking and restocking the mini refrigerators in each pumping room with snacks for the nursing moms.

“Throughout the day employees and nursing moms of patients come in to use our pumping rooms,” Poder said. “They sign in and we let them know which room is open. It’s not uncommon for us to have all the rooms full and a few people waiting.”

Reinberger Family CenterThe center’s large kitchen and eating area feature vending machines, a full-size refrigerator and a microwave for people to store and cook their own food.

“One family has the freezer stocked with frozen dinners labeled with their last name,” said Poder. “If you have an inpatient who has been here for a while, it can get expensive eating in the cafeteria or a restaurant every day.”

Originally the center catered heavily to NICU families who used to be located down the hall. But that’s changed with the recent opening of the new Women’s Board of Akron Children’s Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in the Kay Jewelers Pavilion.

“NICU rooms now have room for a parent to sleep at their child’s bedside, take a shower in their private room and secure things in lockers – something they couldn’t do in the old NICU space,” Poder said. “We met many of those needs for the NICU families in the center and now we hope to spread the word to other departments in the hospital that we’re here.”

Poder cites outpatient families, who come often for rehabilitative therapy or to see multiple specialists in one day, as frequent users of the center.

Reinberger Family Center“Sometimes mom may need to bring siblings along to appointments and they get bored sitting in tiny waiting rooms,” she said. “We have a playroom, game tables, computers, DVDs and a library full of books to keep them entertained. Our only rule is that children must be accompanied by an adult at all times while in the center.”

With an average of 60 to 70 people using the center daily, Poder never knows what to expect.

“It’s something different every day,” she said. “Just the other day we had a respiratory therapist using our quiet room space to train 2 home care nurses on the respiratory needs of one of our patients they will be caring for after discharge.”

For families facing uncertainty or those who just need a break, Poder is a calming presence. Her pleasant demeanor and unfailing willingness to help others who likely remind her of herself during her many years as the mother of a patient, make her a perfect fit for the Reinberger Famiily Center.

“I enjoy meeting the families and developing friendships,” Poder said. “I just want to help improve their day in any way I can.”


As part of our year-long anniversary celebration, we’re telling the story of Akron Children’s through the eyes of past and present employees, doctors, donors, volunteers and patient families. We encourage you to share your own memories and stories about us.

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Nurse shares dad’s memories as a teen polio patient at Children’s

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Kerry and her dad

Kerry Braucher knew about Akron Children’s Hospital long before she ever worked here.

“As a little girl I heard many stories about the hospital because my dad had been a patient here when he was a teen,” said Kerry, a registered nurse on Akron Children’s inpatient psychiatric unit.

Her dad, Dale, spent the summer of 1948 at Akron Children’s after contracting polio during a major outbreak that hospitalized more than 400 local children that summer and fall.

“During his stay, dad had a roommate who was maybe 3 or 4 years old at the time,” Kerry said. “The little boy received a ‘get well’ card from his aunt that contained a quarter. The boy put the quarter in his mouth and started choking on it. My dad, who was a trained lifeguard, did the Heimlich on him and was able to dislodge the quarter – probably saving the boy’s life. My dad was always very proud of that story.”

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Dale’s 70th birthday with his children. Kerry is the blonde.

While he survived the disease, Dale had some permanent scars – both physical and emotional.

“He had paralysis on his left side, which necessitated lots of physical therapy during adolescence,” said Kerry. “He wanted to go into the military but couldn’t because of some of his physical impairments. He had a slight limp and his left leg was smaller than his right. His teenage years were hard, but he was lucky considering what a lot of people suffered.”

One of the memories that stuck with Kerry is her dad’s insistence that none of his kids or grandkids be given change due to that choking episode. She also learned not to complain about what was being served for dinner.

Parents Dale and Delores

Parents Dale and Delores

“If we ever complained about what we were eating we heard about how he had to eat baby food while he was a patient at the hospital,” she said.

Kerry remembers her dad, who died of heart issues in 2007, as her reason for pursuing a career in nursing.

“If we found a hurt animal or a bird with a broken wing we were always allowed to bring it home and nurse it back to health,” she said. “Even though he couldn’t serve in the military, he found other ways to serve. He spent 23 years as a volunteer firefighter in New Franklin Township. He was my inspiration.”


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Veteran nurse reflects on NICU through the years

Lynn Cheslock

Lynn Cheslock

Floods and fires weren’t exactly part of the job description when Lynn Cheslock signed on as a NICU nurse at Akron Children’s Hospital back in 1983. Suffice it to say – she’s seen a lot during her 32 years.

With the move on May 5 to the much bigger NICU in our new Kay Jewelers Pavilion, Cheslock, a NICU clinical coordinator, has worked in 3 different NICU spaces during her tenure at Children’s.

“This expansion has been needed for a lot of years,” she said. “It’s been a long time coming.”

The census in the NICU can be unpredictable and sometimes the need arises for patient overflow on a different floor.

“The increase in beds from 59 to 75 should negate the need for an overflow space in the future,” Cheslock said.

So will the fact that premature babies no longer come to the NICU to convalesce as they did in the past.

“We don’t keep babies forever like we used to. We want them to go home as quickly as possible,” she said. “Home monitoring systems are much improved and we’re better able to educate parents and make them feel competent and comfortable caring for their baby’s needs at home.”

Technological advances

NICU medical team rounds in 2004

NICU medical team rounds in 2004

The evolution of medical equipment – with everything from catheter lines to blood pressure cuffs getting tinier – has translated into better outcomes for NICU patients.

“Looking back on the NICU monitors we used to use – they didn’t have blood pressure or pulse oximetry capabilities. Nurses really had to rely on their intuition,” Cheslock said. “We didn’t know that higher levels of oxygen caused blindness. Research studies about things like retinopathy of prematurity and the ability to titrate (continually measure and adjust) oxygen levels have led to fewer cases of blindness in preemies.”

With no computers or electronic medical records, everything was laboriously charted on paper.

Cheslock credits medications, like Surfactant, with fewer preemie deaths and ventilator-dependent babies.

“We’re able to get babies off ventilators more quickly now,” she said.

The number of neonatologists has more than tripled during Cheslock’s years in the NICU and she’s witnessed the growth of advanced practice nurses and neonatal nurse practitioners.

“Advanced practice nurses now take call more than the residents do,” Cheslock said.

Prenatal care and education mean that high-risk babies who had a slim chance of survival are now making it to the NICU for care. With an average daily census of 50, the demand for neonatal care is stronger than ever.

Focus on family

Each NICU room has a private bathroom and sleep sofa

Each room has a private bathroom and sleep sofa.

One of the changes Cheslock is most excited about is the en suite accommodations for parents and caregivers. In the past there wasn’t space for parents to sleep at their child’s bedside, but that has changed with the new Women’s Board of Children’s Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

“Each private room now has a bed for 1 parent or caregiver and a private bathroom,” Cheslock said. “We also have a parent lounge and lockers for caregivers who need a break.”

Cheslock has watched the culture change at Children’s over the years and loves the collaborative philosophy to which the hospital subscribes.

The NICU move required about 100 staff members from several departments.

With the help of patient families and staff, our NICU space promotes quality contact between families and their babies.

“There is an awareness that it’s OK to share best practices and evidenced-based care with other institutions,” she said. “Family-centered care is an important part of our culture and former parents and caregivers play an active role on many hospital committees and teams.”

After surviving the aforementioned floods and fire in her former space, Cheslock enjoys being flooded with something she hasn’t seen at work in a long time – natural light.

Having worked for 20 years on floors with no windows she’s pretty adamant that this is one perk she’s definitely excited about.

“Sometimes it’s the little things that make the biggest difference,” Cheslock said.


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Akron Children’s Hospital Pediatrics grows up, turns 20

Dr. Michael DeLucia examines twin sisters from our Ellet office, which joined  ACHP in 1998.

Dr. Michael DeLucia examines twin sisters from our Ellet office, which joined ACHP in 1998.

Back in the late 1980s and 90s, a major change emerged in pediatrics.

Hospitals, including Akron Children’s, were looking at ways to increase market share and meet the changing wants and needs of new medical residents getting ready to enter the workforce.

“Hospitals were training hard-working, talented doctors who wanted a new practice model that allowed them more predictable hours and a better work/life balance,” said Bob Howard, retired vice president of business development at Akron Children’s Hospital. “They didn’t want to go into the private practice model as it existed at that time.”

In 1995, Dr. Carolee Luecken approached Howard about buying her practice upon her retirement. The decision to purchase her practice solidified the plan for Children’s Hospital Physician Associates, now called Akron Children’s Hospital Pediatrics.

Dr. Ellen Kempf

Dr. Ellen Kempf

Howard and Mark Watson, who was vice president of pediatrics at the time, recruited Dr. Ellen Kempf to take over Dr. Luecken’s practice.

“I was heavily involved in recruiting other pediatricians – many of whom are still there today,” said Dr. Kempf, who was the first ACHP medical director. “To ACHP’s credit, its goal was always to get good doctors who were committed to sound clinical practice, establishing performance improvement guidelines and building a quality foundation.”

The first 2 ACHP offices opened in Fairlawn and Twinsburg, followed by offices in Barberton, Wadsworth and Green 2 years later.

Today, ACHP has 23 offices in 11 counties and employs roughly 450 people, including 120 providers. The newest office is in Richland County, and a second office in Warren will open this summer, which will bring the number of offices to 24.

ACHP perks

Dr. Joanne Warmus examines a patient at ACHP Green.

Dr. Joanne Warmus examines a patient at ACHP Green.

A major selling point of ACHP was the shared call between offices.

“Physicians who were used to being on call every few nights now only had to take call every 5 weeks at a minimum,” Watson said.

Another perk was the nurse phone triage line called Children’s After Hours that screened evening calls for the pediatricians.

Like many other pediatricians, the idea of joining ACHP greatly appealed to Dr. Jennifer Dwyer, the current ACHP medical director.

“I liked the idea of taking care of my patients and not having to worry about the business end of things like dealing with insurance companies,” Dr. Dwyer said.

Constantly changing

Dr. Jennifer Dwyer

Dr. Jennifer Dwyer

As healthcare continues to evolve, ACHP changes as well.

“We are constantly evaluating what we can do to meet and exceed our patients’ needs,” said Ben Teske, the operations director for ACHP. “We’ve added evening and weekend hours at most of our offices and we’re evaluating the use of more walk-in appointments. We also offer online access to medical records and scheduling.”

From the medical side, Dr. Dwyer sees more case management, social services and advanced practice providers in the future of medicine.

“I spend more time on chronic disease management and prevention,” Dr. Dwyer said. “It takes more time, but in the long run it will help save healthcare dollars.”

Here’s a look back at ACHP over the past 20 years.
Celebrating 20 years of ACHP infographic

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