"About an hour or two after she was born, we heard the word VACTERL for the first time. It's an acronym for an association of multiple birth defects and you only need three of them to be diagnosed with it - she has all seven." Go behind the scenes as Lily and her family share how the team at Nationwide Children’s worked together to care for her multiple diagnoses. Learn more about the Center for Colorectal and Pelvic Reconstruction and our team approach to caring for kids like Lily: https://bit.

"About an hour or two after she was born, we heard the word VACTERL for the first time. It's an acronym for an association of multiple birth defects and you only need three of them to be diagnosed with it - she has all seven." Go behind the scenes as Lily and her family share how the team at Nationwide Children’s worked together to care for her multiple diagnoses. Learn more about the Center for Colorectal and Pelvic Reconstruction and our team approach to caring for kids like Lily: https://bit.

374. That’s the number of days sweet Malakai called the hospital his home. He was diagnosed with VACTERL association, an acronym for a series of birth defects. But his case was among the most severe due to a series of complications during surgical procedures in his home state. When he arrived at Nationwide Children's from California, Malakai was experiencing multiple organ failure, sepsis and his bowels were bursting out of his body. The Center for Colorectal and Pelvic Reconstruction team ultim