Is there a second chance for medically fragile babies and toddlers who have been abandoned or abused?
Where do they go when their parents or relatives either can’t or won’t take care of them? For a steadily growing number of little ones in Atlanta, the answer to both questions is My House, an Emory-founded, Emory-affiliated emergency shelter and long-term transitional home, providing a nourishing, stable environment with both medical care and attention to development needs. Before My House existed, many of these babies simply remained boarders in the hospital where they were born or treated, running up hundreds of thousands of dollars in hospital costs. But it was the staggering human costs that most pained Donna Carson, an instructor in Emory’s pediatrics department. In 1999, she and fellow faculty member Sue Glover founded My House as Georgia’s first emergency shelter for medically fragile infants. Carson is a fierce advocate who refuses to put limits on the possibilities for children who once might have been deemed hopeless. She is often called a “one-woman revolution,” a spark that
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