Dr. Daryl Steiner’s colleagues at Akron Children’s Hospital have called him a pioneer and a visionary in the field of child abuse evaluation and treatment.
Steiner’s more humble than that, though.
“As I look back over my career, I can see we’ve done a good job,” Steiner said in a conference room in the hospital’s Locust Building, where he heads the Children at Risk Evaluation (CARE) Center. “The best thing I did was hire good people.”
Steiner has announced plans to retire Thursday after 40 years with the hospital. When he began his career in 1975, the CARE Center didn’t even exist — and now the hospital has a space the size of a small private practice dedicated to its work.
From closet to CARE
The CARE Center was established three decades ago as a means to afford families privacy and consistency in cases of physical and sexual child abuse.
“Originally when I started, physicians treated abused children in the Emergency Department,” he said. “That didn’t lend well to privacy or consistency.
“EDs are chaotic. They’re hardly the place to evaluate a child subjected to abuse — especially sexual abuse.”
[For more of this story, written by Nick Glunt, go to http://www.ohio.com/news/break...-s-hospital-1.650280]
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