Fall 2020 Newsletter Released
LCPC is excited to announce that our speech pathology department is growing! Brittany Bilitzo will be joining Pilar Tobin on our team of speech and language pathologists in our expanding department. Brittany, an MS CCC-SLP, comes to us from Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio where she completed a Craniofacial Speech Language Pathology Clinical Fellowship. Brittany was born with a cleft herself, so she has a special connection to the position. She is passionate about providing care through an interdisciplinary team from having such a great experience with team care personally. Download the Newsletter to Read More
Also in this issue…
The Day Everything Changed
By Dr. Liz Prada, Executive Director
We can all point to a day that changed our lives. For my parents’ generation, it was the day that JFK was assassinated. For many of us, 9/11 was a turning point. In March of this year, I caught up with an old friend and dental school classmate who had recently taken a job as a state dental director. Her words foreshadowed how all of our lives were about to be flipped upside down. Download the Newsletter to Read More
Young Physicians Bring New Life Into the World, Amidst COVID
Six weeks early, Rohann Saleem made his entrance into the world, with big brown eyes, a contagious smile, and a cleft lip. Parents Saddiq and Tabinda had been informed of their son’s cleft and shown the condition on his ultrasounds, but Tabinda said that the first thing she noticed were Rohann’s “big, bright eyes.” And in spite of Rohann’s cleft, Tabinda says, “He always has a smile.” Download the Newsletter to Read More
Phase Two of Construction in Full Swing
Our building renovation is progressing quickly! We divided our project into four phases, and we are currently completing phase two. We want to thank all of our patients and staff for their patience as we work to create a better facility for the future. Download the Newsletter to Read More
Thank You for Giving
As you can imagine, it’s been an unprecedented challenge for the last
few months to make ends meet at the Clinic. We were mandated to stop providing patient services (except emergency care) by the PA Department of Health on March 16th. We remained shuttered until that was relaxed on May 25th and we re-opened with new safety measures in place based on CDC guidelines. Download the Newsletter to Read More