MEET OUR 2024 CHAMPION!

Every year, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals asks each of its member hospitals to identify a “Champion” to serve as the face for the millions of children treated by children’s hospitals annually. These ambassadors spend one year advocating for the charitable need of the hospital where they received their care.

This year, James and Connie Maynard Children’s Hospital selected Caesey Hutcherson to be our 2024 Champion!

Born at 27 weeks, Caesey weighed only two pounds. He stayed in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at James and Connie Maynard Children’s Hospital at ECU Health Medical Center for three months, where he received intense respiratory and neurological support, including two brain surgeries for hydrocephalus. When he experienced a shunt malfunction later, he had to have an emergent shunt revision: his third and hopefully final brain surgery. Today, Caesey is energetic and thriving in his daily life.