Aetna Announces $500,000 Grant to UC Davis Children's Hospital.-- Grant to support expansion of pediatric pediatric /pe·di·at·ric/ (pe?de-at´rik) pertaining to the health of children. pe·di·at·ric adj. Of or relating to pediatrics. ICU ICU intensive care unit. ICU abbr. intensive care unit ICU see intensive care unit. ICU and telemedicine program; improve access to quality care for Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern members -- WALNUT CREEK Walnut Creek, residential city (1990 pop. 60,569), Contra Costa co., W Calif., in the San Francisco Bay area; inc. 1914. It is the trade and shipping center of an extensive agricultural area where walnuts are among the major product. , Calif. -- Aetna (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AET AET Aetna, Inc. AET After Extra Time AET Actual Evapotranspiration AET Alliance for Environmental Technology AET Alpha-Ethyltryptamine AET Applied Extrusion Technologies, Inc. ) today announced the donation of $500,000 to UC Davis Children's Hospital A children's hospital is a hospital which offers its services exclusively to children. The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th century, as pediatric medical and surgical specialties separated from internal medicine and adult surgical specialties. to expand its pediatric intensive care unit (PICU PICU Pediatric Intensive Care Unit PICU Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit PICU Priority Interrupt Control Unit PICU Programmable Interface Control Unit (FMS-800 component) ) and telemedicine capabilities throughout Northern California. "Aetna shares the UC Davis Children's Hospital goal of improving the health of the communities we serve," said Gerald Bishop, M.D., Aetna senior medical director for the Central Valley. "We're proud to support UC Davis' passion for excellence and this expansion of their pediatric intensive care unit, which will ensure that our members throughout Northern California have even better access to high quality care. "The enhanced ability for UC Davis Children's Hospital to provide telemedicine consultations throughout the Northern California region will have a tremendous positive impact far beyond the Sacramento area, and we are pleased to be able to support their efforts," he said. "Aetna's support of our Pediatric Intensive Care Unit expansion and our telemedicine program is critical to helping us care for more of our region's most seriously ill A patient is seriously ill when his or her illness is of such severity that there is cause for immediate concern but there is no imminent danger to life. See also very seriously ill. and injured children and to sharing our specialty expertise with hospitals throughout the region," said Anthony Philipps, medical director of UC Davis Children's Hospital. The UC Davis Children's Hospital PICU treats children with serious injuries, respiratory failure Respiratory Failure Definition Respiratory failure is nearly any condition that affects breathing function or the lungs themselves and can result in failure of the lungs to function properly. , heart conditions and other life-threatening illnesses. The PICU's survival rates are among the highest in the nation, the planned expansion increases the number of patients the unit can serve at any one time from 16 to 24. UC Davis is also a national leader in health and technology. Through the use of enhanced video and Internet capabilities, the hospital's telemedicine program connects the specialists of UC Davis with health-care facilities that do not have access to a full-range of pediatric services. The pediatric critical-care telemedicine program is the first of its kind in the country, providing expert and immediate assistance to acutely ill and injured children in locations far from Sacramento. About UC Davis Children's Hospital UC Davis Children's Hospital is the region's only comprehensive hospital for children, providing a complete range of clinical services and groundbreaking research on some of today's most pressing pediatric health concerns. Particular areas of expertise are emergency and critical care, pulmonary care, neurodevelopment, endocrinology, neonatal care, oncology and cardiology. For more information, visit www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/children. About Aetna Aetna is one of the nation's leading diversified health care benefits companies, serving approximately 36.4 million people with information and resources to help them make better informed decisions about their health care. Aetna offers a broad range of traditional and consumer-directed health insurance products and related services, including medical, pharmacy, dental, behavioral health, group life and disability plans, and medical management capabilities and health care management services for Medicaid plans. Our customers include employer groups, individuals, college students, part-time and hourly workers, health plans, government-sponsored plans and expatriates. www.aetna.com |
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