Levine Children's

12/27/2025

Bringing joy to healing❤️

Over the years, Seacrest Studios at Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital has been a place where creativity, laughter and connection thrive. From music and art to dance parties and unforgettable visits from special guests, the studio has brought hope and comfort to countless patients and families during their hospital stay.

Our incredible studio team works tirelessly to create experiences that help support patients through treatment. They have brought moments of fun and normalcy into an environment that can often feel overwhelming, helping our kids feel like kids again.

As we celebrate all the things that make Levine Children’s Hospital such a special place, we celebrate our Seacrest Studios team and every special guest for their passion for putting smiles on our patients faces.

A huge thank you to Ryan Seacrest Foundation for making this magic possible and for continuing to support our kids in such meaningful ways. Here’s to many more years of unforgettable moments at Seacrest Studios.❤️️

12/26/2025

Keeping the holiday spirit alive for our patients and their families at Atrium Health Levine Children's Hospital✨❤️

12/24/2025

Festive fun for our tiniest patients in Macon, GA! ❤️

12/24/2025

Santa’s little helpers are bringing festive joy🎄✨

Our youngest patients in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Atrium Health Levine Children’s Jeff Gordon Children’s Center are ready to deck the halls and celebrate the holidays.

From our family to yours, we wish you a joyful and safe holiday season filled with hope and love.

12/24/2025

Our wonderful guest had us on the GO!

Danny Go stopped by Seacrest Studios at Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital to spread holiday cheer and get our patients up and moving. He brought all the energy and filled our hospital with laughter and excitement as he led interactive activities that had our patients grooving, crushing candy canes and smiling ear to ear.

Thank you for giving our patients a reason to smile and for creating joyful moments that brighten the season for kids and families spending the holidays in the hospital.

Your kindness and energy brought holiday magic to our kids, and we can’t wait to welcome you back again!❤️

12/23/2025

A season of joy for our patients ❤️

The halls of Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital have been filled with laughter, warmth, and a little sparkle. From our patients’ heroes rappelling down the hospital building to bring holiday cheer to their windows to our community lighting the night to show them love, our patients and families couldn’t stop smiling—and neither could we.

Every visit from our patients’ favorite mascots, every toy delivery from our generous donors and every holiday event hosted by our amazing teams went a long way toward creating a sense of normalcy for our kids and their families.

Thank you to our teammates, community partners and friends for always showing up for our patients and going above and beyond to make the holidays special during their hospital stay.

Here’s to more joy, love and magical moments✨

12/22/2025

Built by heart, grown by generations ❤️

Before Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital opened its doors, Jess knew where she belonged. Inspired by her mother — her hero and a nurse who brought care and kindness to everyone around her — Jess answered a lifelong calling. She began her career 24 years ago at Carolinas Medical Center, caring for pediatric cardiac surgical patients and pouring her heart into every family she met. When Levine Children’s Hospital opened its doors in 2007, she knew she had found her home.

Today, Jess serves as a service line educator, supporting the cardiovascular intensive care unit (CVICU), pediatric catheterization lab and the hospital’s eighth floor — guiding and growing the nurses who care for some of our sickest patients. From bedside to the classroom, she’s helped teammates reach their full potential so they, can also help more children heal and grow up.

Her greatest teachers? Our patients. “Kids are the innocent bystanders in illness — they didn’t ask to be sick, yet they keep pushing forward and smiling through the hardest moments,” says Jess. “Their resilience inspires me every single day.”

Jess’s passion for nursing is something that her own daughters share. Her daughter, Emily, has spent the past two years as a healthcare technician in the CVICU. She recently graduated from nursing school and will begin her nursing career with us in the CVICU in March, sharing her mom’s love for caring for children with congenital heart defects. Jess’s stepdaughter, Emma, is a respiratory therapist in the neurological-intensive care nursery (NICN), dedicated to our most vulnerable patients.

“My hope is that, 18 years from now, patients will still see Levine Children’s Hospital as a place of extraordinary healing,” says Jess. “A place where compassion meets excellence, and every child feels safe, cared for and valued.”

Jess, from our first days to today, your passion has been part of every step forward. Thank you for helping Levine Children’s Hospital grow into a place where kids and families thrive.

Learn more about 18 years of Levine Children’s Hospital: https://bit.ly/48Vp2bW

12/20/2025

Growing up, together ❤️🩵💛

Before he was born, Ford’s parents learned their first baby would arrive with half a heart. Diagnosed at 20 weeks with hypoplastic right heart syndrome, Ford faced three major surgeries before age 3 — a BT shunt at just 10 days old, a Glenn procedure at 6 months and the Fontan at age 3 inside the then newly opened Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital.

As our hospital grew, so did their hope for Ford’s future. Over the years, Ford’s doctors and nurses became more than their care team — they became family. The cardiology nurses who cared for him through his surgeries as a baby and beyond are the same who came to cheer him on at his high school senior night.

Today at 18 years old, Ford is a varsity football kicker, a Formula 1 racing fan and an “old soul”, according to his mom. His future is bright as he steps into adulthood himself, with big plans to study mechanical engineering in college and dreams of working in Formula 1.

He has also found lifelong friendships through Camp LUCK, a camp supporting children with congenital heart diseases, where he now volunteers to give back to other kids walking the same path.

Next year, Ford will begin his transition into adult care with Atrium Health Sanger Heart & Vascular — a step forward supported by the trusted team that has walked with him since day one. This next chapter ensures his care evolves with him, so nothing stands in the way of the future he’s building.

Ford, your determination inspires us all. Your Levine Children’s family will always be cheering you on!

12/19/2025

Once a patient, Bella is now a caregiver making a difference.

Bella's childhood was shaped by the care she received at Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital. Diagnosed with hydrocephalus, she had more than 20 brain surgeries under Dr. Scott Wait and became the first patient to go live from Seacrest Studios when it opened in 2013.

Those experiences, and the sense of normalcy they brought, sparked Bella's passion for helping others. She shadowed her neurosurgeon, pursued a career in health care and worked at Nationwide Children’s before returning to Charlotte. Today, in a full-circle moment, Bella is a psychometrist with Levine Children’s developmental behavioral pediatrics team, caring for patients where her own journey began.

Her story illustrates that with the right care, kids don't just copy, they thrive and lift others up.

Learn more about Bella's journey: https://bit.ly/4rWJylq

12/18/2025

12/18/2025

Celebrating 18 on the 18th🎉

For nearly two decades, Atrium Health Levine Children's Hospital has the privilege of standing alongside children and families during some of life’s most challenging and most joyful moments. From our sweet newborns to courageous teens, every patient has left an incredible mark on our hearts and inspired us to keep pushing forward in our mission to provide the best care for every child that walks through our doors.

Our impact over the past 18 years has been measured not just in numbers, but in remarkable stories of resilience, hope and healing in the face of adversity. We’ve witnessed breakthroughs and countless moments that remind us why we do what we do — so every child in our hospital feels loved, nurtured and cared for.

None of this would have been possible without the courageous patients, teammates and the amazing the amazing community that supports Levine Children's. Together, we’ve built a place where families feel safe and supported during their health journey.

Cheers to 18 years of making a difference—and to many more years of being a trusted partner in care.❤️

12/17/2025