The patient who walked through the brand-new doors of the Frank Kiang Medical Center was a young Cambodian woman living with Down syndrome, congenitalheartdisease, and asthma.
Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt University, has seen teenage patients with chronic health conditions such as diabetes, congenitalheartdisease and cystic fibrosis age out of their family's insurance.
"There is a group of children with severe congenitalheartdisease who need to arrive at hospital in good time to get treatment, and if they do so then their survival rate is very good, " he said.