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Phoenix Children's ECMO Program Achieves Platinum Center of Excellence Status from ELSO
First and only center in Arizona to receive highest designation for advanced life support PHOENIX, Dec. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Phoenix Children's has been recognized with the prestigious ELSO Award for Excellence in Life Support, achieving Platinum Center of Excellence status from the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO). This distinction represents the highest level of recognition for programs providing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) therapy - an advanced life...
Phoenix Children's Earns National Recognition as a Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Network Site
PHOENIX, Dec. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Phoenix Children's has been designated a network site member of the Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Network (PPHNet), joining an elite group of just 14 pediatric centers across the United States and Canada recognized for excellence in caring for children with complex pulmonary hypertension. This prestigious achievement affirms Phoenix Children's as a national leader in providing specialized, high-quality care to premature infants and children with this...
Phoenix Children's Research Institute Secures Three Prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grants
Grant funding will advance pediatric lung and spine research PHOENIX, Dec. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Phoenix Children's Research Institute at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix has been awarded three new R01 grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the gold standard of federally funded research awards. The NIH grants total close to $9 million and will support groundbreaking research to develop targeted treatments for pediatric lung diseases and improve surgical...