MEDIA ADVISORY

              U.VA.'S DR. SHARON HOSTLER RECEIVES BRAZELTON AWARD,
              CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER WINS NATIONAL RECOGNITION

     The Association for the Care of Children's Health (ACCH) today presented 
its highest academic honor, the T. Berry Brazelton Lecture Award, to 
Dr. Sharon Hostler of the University of Virginia.  Hostler is the McLemore 
Birdsong professor of pediatrics, chief of developmental pediatrics and 
medical director of the Kluge Children's Rehabilitation Center.

     Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, an internationally know pediatrician and one of 
the association's founders, presented the award named in his honor to Hostler 
at the ACCH's 31st annual conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on 
Wednesday, June 12.  Hostler is the sixth recipient of the award.

     The U.Va.'s Children's Medical Center also received the association's 
national award in the large pediatric facility category for this year's 
"Children in Healtcare Week" programs.  The programs seek to heighten the 
public's awareness of the unique needs of hospitalized children and their 
families. This is the second time in three years the CMC has received this 
national award.   Linda Drake, program coordinator, accepted the honor. 

     Hostler addressed the closing session of the association's Albuquerque 
conference, encouraging her health care colleagues to learn from the lessons 
of young patients, listen to their concerns, as well as those of their 
families, when determining appropriate courses of care. She was joined in her 
presentation by fellow U.Va. pediatrician Dr. Richard Kesler, Hospital 
Education Director Nancy Artis, and hospital teacher Marta Gilliam in a 
program designed to highlight the CMC's community approach to patient care.

     The Association for the Care of Children's Health is an educational and 
advocacy organization which promotes family-centered care in its efforts to 
improve health care systems for children and their families.  The 
association's members include more that 250 hospitals or facilities and 4,000 
professionals and family members of children with special health care needs.

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                                                        June 12, 1996



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