Email messages are printed out and hand-delivered to patients. The recipient must currently be an in-patient at Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland. We print the messages out once a day. While we do our best to make sure the patient receives your message, we cannot make any guarentees. For the patient's privacy, please do not include confidential patient information in your message. We cannot deliver messages without the patient's first and last name. Thank you for staying in touch.