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Children’s Hospital blood disorders team receives Army award LaJuan Chambers, M.D., a pediatric oncologist at University of Missouri Health Care, and Elizabeth Nelson, R.N., a nurse clinician, were presented with certificates of appreciation from the U.S. Army Nov. 15 at University of Missouri Children’s Hospital for their work in treating a 6-year-old girl with a blood disorder. In June, Kayla Bahnemann, the daughter of an enlisted man at Fort Leonard Wood’s U.S. Army base near Waynesville, Mo., was referred to the Blood Disorders and Cancer Unit at Children’s Hospital. Kayla had been diagnosed with a blood disorder, and her parents had been told there was a possibility that she had leukemia. However, Chambers found that Kayla did not have leukemia. Instead, she had treatable anemia, caused by a deficiency in the number of her red blood cells. To thank Chambers and Nelson for the care and education that Kayla and her parents received at Children’s Hospital, Lt. Col. Robert Lowe and Capt. Mark Brown traveled from Fort Leonard Wood to Columbia to present the award. “The University of Missouri Health Care system is the best experience we’ve had, with the kindness and care that they have given us,” said Staff Sgt. Ryan Bahnemann, Kayla’s father. “If I could rate them out of 10, I’d give them an 11. I believe they went above and beyond.” Chambers is pleased with the recognition and happy to see a definite improvement in Kayla’s health. She feels the award is a testament to how the staff at Children’s Hospital cares for patients. “The award is evidence that the whole staff here at the Children’s Blood Disorders and Cancer Unit is very committed to providing excellent patient care, education and information about illnesses that affect children,” said Chambers. Children’s Hospital facility is the largest and most comprehensive pediatric health-care center in mid-Missouri. Housed at University Hospital and Clinics and Columbia Regional Hospital, the 115-bed hospital is the only facility in mid-Missouri offering comprehensive, specialized children’s services such as trauma care, neonatal transport, child life therapy and a hospital school. |
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