Children's Hospital is a wonderful institution that makes a BIG difference to our Durango community. It is the main pediatric hospital where we transport local newborns and children needing a higher level of hospital care and outpatient pediatric specialty care.
Children who have recently used the funds include those needing visits at CHCO for congenital cataracts, VP shunt evaluation by neurosurgery, seizure workups, congenital heart surgery, management for cystic fibrosis, management for liver and heart transplant, spinal cord tumor treatment, cancer survivors post treatment needing annual surveillance, pediatric colonoscopies, genetics evaluation, gait clinic, and management for children with chromosomal defects and many more acute care visits, inpatient stays and consultations.
CHCO sends their specialists to Durango for pediatric outreach clinic to save families the drive as well These pediatric specialty outreach clinics include cardiology, neurology, gastroenterology, rehabilitation, genetics, pulmonology, orthopedics, sleep medicine, urology, Down syndrome clinic, psychiatry, endocrinology and diabetes and additional specialties via enhanced telemedicine.