Cerebral palsy clinic aids by ‘bringing everybody together’
Four-year-old cerebral palsy patient Martin Mejia shows his doctors how well he can flex his muscles. In a partnership with Campbell Clinic, the Cerebral Palsy Care and Research opened in Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in 2018. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
The Center of Excellence for Cerebral Palsy Care and Research in Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital serves as a one-stop shop, with the only clinic of its kind in a more than 200-mile radius of Memphis.
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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