Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford serves some of the country’s most critically ill children, often performing operations like open-heart surgeries and kidney transplants. This means that even with world-class level treatments, many of their young patients often require long-term or intensive care for months or years.

In these cases, the question then becomes how do you save not just a life, but the childhood that comes with it?

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