New Faces, Even More Expertise, at our Hospital for Children
Dr. Mitchell Price is enthusiastic as he talks about Shady Grove Adventist Hospital for Children. “It’s an exciting time. The scope of our pediatric services is expanding, more experts are here, and we’re gaining recognition in the area.
“There’s a feeling that something special is happening. It’s more than a big new building going up; it’s knowing that the expertise is here, too. We’re making this a true children’s center.”
Kids need special treatment.
Dr. Price has years of experience with young people, and understands the expertise required for children’s health care. “Kids aren’t little adults,” he says. “They have to be treated differently.”
Of course, a children’s hospital should be physically designed for kids. But more important is having the experts available who know how to work with children, and having all the pediatric services and subspecialties available in one place.
Caring for the whole family.
To Dr. Price, another important benefit of having a hospital for children is the help that it gives to the entire family. Having a sick child with multiple problems who has to be treated far from home affects everyone. Parents are torn and under stress. Work suffers, the other children suffer.
“I know, I have five kids, and when one of mine was being treated in a hospital, I was a mess,” he recalls. “But when you can provide high-quality care close to home, it helps everyone.”
That’s why parents need to know about Shady Grove’s commitment to be the hospital of choice for children’s care. “The specialists who can handle more complicated, higher risk problems — together with a whole level of subspecialists — will all be in one place. And we have one goal. To take the best possible care of every child that enters our doors.”
Dr. Price is a pediatric surgeon at Shady Grove, an associate professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and has also spent the last ten years as an assistant professor of surgery at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School‑Bristol Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital. His specialties include pediatric laparoscopic and thoracoscopic surgery, pediatric surgical oncology and treatment of congenital anomalies.