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Child Life Program

Child Life Specialists use play, activities and education to help children and their families cope with medical procedures.

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Carilion Children's - Tanglewood Center

Carilion Children's outpatient location brings together Carilion Children’s outpatient practices together in one location. To make an appointment, please call 540-769-0976.

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Carilion Children's Hospital

Carilion Children’s offers the region's only children’s hospital. Our skilled staff of more than 350 medical professionals is specially trained in caring for infants and children and delivers top-notch care to every child and family.

Child Life Program

Child Life Specialists use play, activities and education to help children and their families cope with medical procedures.

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Carilion Children's - Tanglewood Center

Carilion Children's outpatient location brings together Carilion Children’s outpatient practices together in one location. To make an appointment, please call 540-769-0976.

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Programs and Services

Carilion Children's

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Pediatric Sleep Clinic
Pediatric Sleep Consultation Clinic

Does your child have trouble falling or staying asleep? Is your child struggling at school due to poor sleep? Is lack of sleep affecting your child's emotional well-being? A pediatric sleep consultation may be right for your child.

Pediatric Sleep Consultation Clinic
Pediatric Sleep Clinic
Pediatric Sleep Consultation Clinic

Does your child have trouble falling or staying asleep? Is your child struggling at school due to poor sleep? Is lack of sleep affecting your child's emotional well-being? A pediatric sleep consultation may be right for your child.

Pediatric Sleep Consultation Clinic
Safe Kids
Safe Kids Southwest Virginia

Preventable injuries are the leading cause of death and disability for children in the United States. Safe Kids Southwest Virginia works to protect kids from these injuries and provide a safe place to grow and play through public outreach and hands-on education.

Safe Kids Southwest Virginia
Safe Kids
Safe Kids Southwest Virginia

Preventable injuries are the leading cause of death and disability for children in the United States. Safe Kids Southwest Virginia works to protect kids from these injuries and provide a safe place to grow and play through public outreach and hands-on education.

Safe Kids Southwest Virginia
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Children's Miracle Network Hospitals

Children's Miracle Network (CMN) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving and improving the lives of children by raising funds for children's hospitals across North America. Each year, the 170 CMN hospitals help millions of kids overcome diseases and injuries of every kind.

Children's Miracle Network Hospitals
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Children's Miracle Network Hospitals

Children's Miracle Network (CMN) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving and improving the lives of children by raising funds for children's hospitals across North America. Each year, the 170 CMN hospitals help millions of kids overcome diseases and injuries of every kind.

Children's Miracle Network Hospitals
Child Life Program
Child Life Program

The Child Life program is managed by a team of individuals specifically trained and certified to help children, adolescents and families understand the illness, necessary treatment plan and hospitalization. The Child Life program is the only program of its kind in western Virginia.

Child Life Program
Child Life Program
Child Life Program

The Child Life program is managed by a team of individuals specifically trained and certified to help children, adolescents and families understand the illness, necessary treatment plan and hospitalization. The Child Life program is the only program of its kind in western Virginia.

Child Life Program
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Healthy Lifestyle Clinic

The Carilion Pediatrics Healthy Lifestyle Clinic is a 26-week structured program with continuing appointments that focuses on increasing activity, making healthy food choices and discussing stressors and underlying issues related to weight for children who meet the referral criteria.

Healthy Lifestyle Clinic
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Healthy Lifestyle Clinic

The Carilion Pediatrics Healthy Lifestyle Clinic is a 26-week structured program with continuing appointments that focuses on increasing activity, making healthy food choices and discussing stressors and underlying issues related to weight for children who meet the referral criteria.

Healthy Lifestyle Clinic
Ronald McDonald House
Ronald McDonald House House Charities

The Ronald McDonald House provides a comfortable, supportive "home away from home" for the families of critically ill children who must leave their communities and come to the Roanoke area for medical treatment. The 18-room facility is located just 2.5 blocks from Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital.

Ronald McDonald House Charities
Ronald McDonald House
Ronald McDonald House House Charities

The Ronald McDonald House provides a comfortable, supportive "home away from home" for the families of critically ill children who must leave their communities and come to the Roanoke area for medical treatment. The 18-room facility is located just 2.5 blocks from Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital.

Ronald McDonald House Charities
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Care Connection for Children

Carilion Children's is one of six Virginia healthcare networks to participate in the Care Connection for Children initiative that gives local kids with special healthcare needs access to optimally effective, community-based medical and support services.

Care Connection for Children
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Care Connection for Children

Carilion Children's is one of six Virginia healthcare networks to participate in the Care Connection for Children initiative that gives local kids with special healthcare needs access to optimally effective, community-based medical and support services.

Care Connection for Children
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Patient Stories

The Farino family's story
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"We likely would not be living here if we didn't have all the specialists here through Carilion."

The Farino family

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Children’s HistorySince 1924

Follow along from the beginning to learn about Carilion's commitment to children in southwest Virginia.

1924

A children's ward was included in the first hospital addition (old south wing), which opened in 1924. This featured nursery pictures on the walls and children's furniture. There was also a maternity ward.

1920s

The Children's Ward, circa late 1920s

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Programs and Services

Carilion Children's

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Pediatric Sleep Clinic
Pediatric Sleep Consultation Clinic

Does your child have trouble falling or staying asleep? Is your child struggling at school due to poor sleep? Is lack of sleep affecting your child's emotional well-being? A pediatric sleep consultation may be right for your child.

Pediatric Sleep Consultation Clinic
Pediatric Sleep Clinic
Pediatric Sleep Consultation Clinic

Does your child have trouble falling or staying asleep? Is your child struggling at school due to poor sleep? Is lack of sleep affecting your child's emotional well-being? A pediatric sleep consultation may be right for your child.

Pediatric Sleep Consultation Clinic
Safe Kids
Safe Kids Southwest Virginia

Preventable injuries are the leading cause of death and disability for children in the United States. Safe Kids Southwest Virginia works to protect kids from these injuries and provide a safe place to grow and play through public outreach and hands-on education.

Safe Kids Southwest Virginia
Safe Kids
Safe Kids Southwest Virginia

Preventable injuries are the leading cause of death and disability for children in the United States. Safe Kids Southwest Virginia works to protect kids from these injuries and provide a safe place to grow and play through public outreach and hands-on education.

Safe Kids Southwest Virginia
Carilion Children's & Children's Miracle Network logos
Children's Miracle Network Hospitals

Children's Miracle Network (CMN) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving and improving the lives of children by raising funds for children's hospitals across North America. Each year, the 170 CMN hospitals help millions of kids overcome diseases and injuries of every kind.

Children's Miracle Network Hospitals
Carilion Children's & Children's Miracle Network logos
Children's Miracle Network Hospitals

Children's Miracle Network (CMN) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving and improving the lives of children by raising funds for children's hospitals across North America. Each year, the 170 CMN hospitals help millions of kids overcome diseases and injuries of every kind.

Children's Miracle Network Hospitals
Child Life Program
Child Life Program

The Child Life program is managed by a team of individuals specifically trained and certified to help children, adolescents and families understand the illness, necessary treatment plan and hospitalization. The Child Life program is the only program of its kind in western Virginia.

Child Life Program
Child Life Program
Child Life Program

The Child Life program is managed by a team of individuals specifically trained and certified to help children, adolescents and families understand the illness, necessary treatment plan and hospitalization. The Child Life program is the only program of its kind in western Virginia.

Child Life Program
Healthy Lifestyle Clinic photo of family picnic scene
Healthy Lifestyle Clinic

The Carilion Pediatrics Healthy Lifestyle Clinic is a 26-week structured program with continuing appointments that focuses on increasing activity, making healthy food choices and discussing stressors and underlying issues related to weight for children who meet the referral criteria.

Healthy Lifestyle Clinic
Healthy Lifestyle Clinic photo of family picnic scene
Healthy Lifestyle Clinic

The Carilion Pediatrics Healthy Lifestyle Clinic is a 26-week structured program with continuing appointments that focuses on increasing activity, making healthy food choices and discussing stressors and underlying issues related to weight for children who meet the referral criteria.

Healthy Lifestyle Clinic
Ronald McDonald House
Ronald McDonald House House Charities

The Ronald McDonald House provides a comfortable, supportive "home away from home" for the families of critically ill children who must leave their communities and come to the Roanoke area for medical treatment. The 18-room facility is located just 2.5 blocks from Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital.

Ronald McDonald House Charities
Ronald McDonald House
Ronald McDonald House House Charities

The Ronald McDonald House provides a comfortable, supportive "home away from home" for the families of critically ill children who must leave their communities and come to the Roanoke area for medical treatment. The 18-room facility is located just 2.5 blocks from Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital.

Ronald McDonald House Charities
Care Connection for Children logo
Care Connection for Children

Carilion Children's is one of six Virginia healthcare networks to participate in the Care Connection for Children initiative that gives local kids with special healthcare needs access to optimally effective, community-based medical and support services.

Care Connection for Children
Care Connection for Children logo
Care Connection for Children

Carilion Children's is one of six Virginia healthcare networks to participate in the Care Connection for Children initiative that gives local kids with special healthcare needs access to optimally effective, community-based medical and support services.

Care Connection for Children
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Patient Stories

The Farino family's story
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"We likely would not be living here if we didn't have all the specialists here through Carilion."

The Farino family

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Patient Stories

The Farino family's story
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"We likely would not be living here if we didn't have all the specialists here through Carilion.

The Farino family

, NICU and specialty care

Children’s HistorySince 1924

Follow along from the beginning to learn about Carilion's commitment to children in southwest Virginia.

1924

A children's ward was included in the first hospital addition (old south wing), which opened in 1924. This featured nursery pictures on the walls and children's furniture. There was also a maternity ward.

1920s

The Children's Ward, circa late 1920s

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