Pediatric ENT at Tufts Medical Center

07/01/2022

This evening they shut off the lights on the pediatric inpatient floors of Floating 7, Pedi BMT and the PICU. This is the end of an era; a 125 year era, of providing state of the art, exceptional care to the children of Boston and New England and beyond.
But we want to reiterate that although many of the inpatient beds have closed, Pediatric Anesthesia is still here, and we in Pediatric ENT remain as busy as ever. We continue to perform delicate and complex surgeries on our NICU patients as well as lots of ambulatory surgeries on older children. When kids need to spend the night we are taking them to other facilities where we operate and we are still their surgeons.
We have worked hard with our partners in other disciplines to assure that we will still be able to effectively run our multidisciplinary teams, including cochlear implant, craniofacial, cleft, and vascular anomalies clinics. We are excited to see all of you in the near future for your regularly scheduled follow up visits.

02/14/2022

As highlighted in this billboard, Pediatric ENT has been an integral part of Tufts Medical Center throughout its history. The irony of using an image of children receiving ENT care to advertise for a medical center that is downsizing its pediatric services is not lost on us. Nevertheless, we remain open and busy and will continue to care for the children of Boston, New England and beyond at TMC as long as we are able to do so.
Given the medical complexity of our practice, many of the bigger surgeries we perform require an intensive care unit admission and/or an overnight stay postoperatively. After July 1st we may be bringing these types of procedures to a different facility, but it will still be Drs. Marston, Scott, and Vecchiotti who perform them.
We remain fiercely dedicated to our patients and their families; we aren’t going anywhere.

07/01/2021

July is National Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness Month! This month especially, we are celebrating all of our amazing Tufts Cleft and Craniofacial Team patients born with craniofacial differences.

02/20/2021

We’re passionate about pediatric ENT care at Tufts Children’s Hospital! We make every effort to provide timely, specialized and compassionate medical and surgical services for kids with a wide spectrum of ENT needs. We are honored to take care of your children. Happy Kids ENT month!

02/16/2021

01/18/2021

Inspiring story about one of our favorite patients!

Now that home healthcare workers will soon get the COVID-19 vaccine under Phase 1, some parents wonder why they, as parents, can’t get the shot too.

10/29/2020

How this tough 3-year-old has impressed everyone with his strength and determination to beat cancer at Tufts Children's Hospital.

09/15/2020

Henry Barnes was the first subspecialty trained African American physician and a fellow otolaryngologist.

Over the weekend, Tufts ENT physicians participated in an event for medical students interested in otolaryngology, sponsored by The Barnes Society.

Follow along with their page (Barnes Society) for more information on interesting articles, upcoming events and meetings, and scholarship and grant opportunities.

09/08/2020

We’re passionate about cleft lip and palate care at Tufts and this story of a boy and his new dog, both with similar cleft lips, is uplifting and inspiring!

07/27/2020

July is National Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness Month!

This month is “an opportunity to celebrate those born with facial differences and spread awareness to the lifelong care journey experienced by many patients here in the United States”. -The American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association

Here at Tufts, our biweekly Cleft and Craniofacial Multidisciplinary Team meetings are composed of specialists from Pediatric ENT and Facial Plastics, Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics, Pediatric Audiology, Feeding/Speech and Language Pathology, Genetics, and Pediatric Psychiatry.

We are proud to be an ACPA Approved Team and support our Cleft and Craniofacial patients not just this month, but every month.