Cardiac ICU Celebrates Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week

The heart warriors in our Cardiac Intensive Care Unit look extra cute as we also celebrate Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week.

Cook Children's Heart Center staff members made special hats for their patients and our Family Advisory Council generously donated books to families about open-heart surgery scars, known as “zippers.”

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Through our various communications channels, including our newest Focus Newsroom, Internal Communications shares and promotes the awards/recognition that Cook Children’s earns (organizationally, departmentally, individually) from external associations and from internal programs, such as Peak Performers and DAISY awards. We believe that employee engagement is strengthened through telling the stories of our employees and making the connections their roles have with our Promise, patients, families and peers, such as through the weekly #WeAreCooksChildrens feature.