YOUR DOLLARS AT WORK

• Gillette Children’s researchers and child life staff are using Virtual Reality technology to relieve pain and anxiety in patients following surgery and utilizing it as a coping tool during procedures.
• Gillette Children’s rehab therapists are implementing animal assisted therapy to help comfort patients recovering from surgery, motivate patients to reach new milestones in their rehabilitation and reduce physical and emotional pain in both patients and their families.
• Gillette Children’s neurologists and researchers are using Vagus Nerve Stimulation to control seizures in patients with Epilepsy, including one of the youngest-ever patients to undergo VNS.
• Gillette Children’s Music Therapists use music to provide support and distraction during medical procedures, help your child cope with a hospital stay, and encourage the growth of physical, thinking and learning abilities.
• Gillette Children’s never turns a child or family away due to the inability to pay, with support from KS95 for Kids over 1,018 families received financial assistance to cover services and care provided by Gillette.

• Providing pediatric cancer patients with access to more clinical trials and new treatments than anywhere else in Minnesota. Many of the treatments available to children with cancer were pioneered here at our National Center Institute-designated research facility, Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota. Our discoveries often become the standard of care for patients around the world. 
• Developing new therapies including cell, gene, and immune-based therapies, that improve cure rates and make treatments highly effective and safer for patients. We’re home to a ground-breaking development of a potential treatment for pediatric brain tumors, the number one cause of cancer deaths in children. 
• Elevating patient experience and care through innovative spaces and enhanced programs including integrative and nature-based therapies while providing the best possible care to patients facing cancer right now. 
• Improving childhood cancer survivorship, helping more patients not only survive but thrive. M Health Fairview Masonic Children’s Hospital is the birthplace of childhood cancer survivorship and continues to build on this pioneering legacy through the integration of clinical care and research to improve outcomes for cancer survivors. 
• Leveraging big data to expand our understanding of cancer causes and outcomes.  Putting that knowledge to work in our research for cancers like Ewing sarcoma to more accurately target the disease with pharmaceutical or immunotherapy interventions.