Fw: Virtual Hospital Site

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Hey, I'm so happy to hear the site is alive and well!

s.

Ms. Reese:

Thank you for your feedback. The University of Iowa indeed knows what an

invaluable resource the information about Dr. Ponseti's work is to families of

children with clubfoot. In fact, all of the information about the Ponseti

Method previously housed on vch.org is being restored using the UI Health Care

website and the content can be found at:

http://www.uihealthcare.com/topics/medicaldepartments/orthopaedics/clubfeet/inde\

x.html

In addition, an e-mail will be sent to the list of physicians who have been

trained in the Ponseti method, and they will be asked to direct their

patient-families to the new version of the site. Families will also be directed

there by online search engines.

Thank you again for your interest. I am glad to hear your sons have had

favorable outcomes. Sheila Baldwin, UI Foundation

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Sheila J.F. Baldwin

Senior Director of Development

Children's Hospital of Iowa

P.O. Box 4550

Iowa City, IA 52244-4550

or

FAX:

sheila-baldwin@...

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From: number23

Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 4:44 PM

To: Sheila Baldwin

Subject: Virtual Hospital Site

Dear Ms. Baldwin,

If you are not the person this message needs addressed to then my hope is that

you will please forward it to the right person.

It's come to my attention that the U of I has lost it's Virtual Hospital web

site. I feel this is a very crushing blow to the entire Children's Hospital as

parents across the globe have traveled to your hospital as a direct result of

the information found on that site.

I am one of those parents. We have been traveling from Oklahoma to Iowa for the

past five years to get both of our son's treated at the Ponseti Club Foot

Clinic.

Prior to learning about Dr. Ponseti via the internet my oldest son was headed

for major surgery on his feet. It was Dr. Ponseti who helped us avoid that

operation, but it was the U of I web site that taught me enough about club foot

and the Ponseti Method in general to convince me to travel to yoru facility even

though it was a nearly 700 mile drive.

My 2nd son also had club foot, and was treated by Dr. Ponseti.

As a result, I am very active in the campaign to help other parents avoid

surgery on their children, sending them always to the Virtual Hospital for

information that is not available else where - and the majority of these parents

end up traveling to Iowa City, to your hospital, for treatment.

The web site pays off for your hospital and seems such a small price to pay for

such an enormous amount of information about the quality care people can get

there.

Please let us know how we can help convince your budgeting department that the

web site is directly responsible for saving countless babies.

Sincerely,

ee Reese

mother of 2 clubfoot sons

Webbers Falls, OK

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