Children’s Hospital Colorado offers life-changing newborn screenings

September is “Newborn Screening Month” and Children’s Hospital Colorado is leading the way nationwide to ensure babies receive these vital screenings. “We’re able to start those treatments that change the course of the disease, so it helps prevent long-term complications,” said Stacey Martiniano, Children’s Pediatric Pulmonologist [and associate professor of pediatrics at CU School of Medicine]. “We were the first state to offer them.”