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Local Hospital Proud of Its First ''Grow Clinic'' Babies


by KYW's Karin Phillips

Monday was a special graduation day for  some special toddlers, at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children.

As "Pomp and Circumstance" filled Saint Chris' atrium, 17-month-old Nakye and 14-month-old Zachary -- wearing their tiny mortarboards -- toddled toward the stage, the first graduates of the "Grow Clinic," designed to help children who have failed to thrive.

Mariana Chilton, assistant professor of Drexel University's school of public health, says the Grow Clinic is designed to fight all causes of failure to thrive:

"Children who do not have access to subsidized housing are undernourished.  The problem is not just about food, but housing assistance, energy and electricity assistance, LIHEAP.

Nakye's great-grandmother is Shirley Cooper of West Philadelphia:

"Whatever that baby needs, they come out to your home, they talk to you, no matter what.  If Latifah needed tokens, they found tokens for her."



 
 
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