St. Christopher's Hospital for Children Photographer Awarded for Photo

Photo one of only 50 selected for the 2009 Children's Hospitals Photo Exhibit

A photo taken by St. Christopher's Hospital for Children photographer, Rudy Lauletta, recently won fifth place in the 2009 Children's Hospitals Photo Exhibit.

The National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI) received 232 photos from member hospitals around the country. Judges then selected 50 to appear in the exhibit. The photo exhibit will be unveiled at an awards lunch for winners in March and will then be displayed on Capital Hill.

Lauletta's photo was taken October 8, 2008 in St. Christopher's Special Care Unit where patient Zenia Gambrell and her mother were waiting to get her burns treated.

St. Christopher's Hospital for Children is a 171-bed pediatric hospital dedicated to the physical and emotional well-being of children located in Philadelphia. A leader in pediatric care since 1875, St. Christopher's nationally recognized programs provide exceptional care to children from throughout the Greater Philadelphia area and around the world. Through academic affiliations with Drexel University College of Medicine and Temple University School of Medicine, the hospital's 270 leading pediatric specialists offer clinical expertise in a wide range of advanced pediatric specialties.

St. Christopher's has a Level I Pediatric Trauma Center and its Burn Center is the only dedicated pediatric burn center in the Philadelphia area. In addition, its Sleep program is accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. St. Christopher's Cystic Fibrosis Center is accredited as a Care Center by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and the hospital has one of only ten sickle cell programs in the country that has earned the designation as a Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center by the National Institutes of Health.