Complex Care Medical Services
Children’s Health℠ now offers a service specifically dedicated to caring for the pediatric population with complex, chronic medical conditions. For primary care physicians in the community, time and resources may not be available. Children’s Health is here to help. Complex Care Medical Services is comprised of two main programs - Care Coordination Program and Medical Home.
Our Programs
Comprehensive and Compassionate Care
Our purpose is to achieve the triple aim of the right care, at the right place, at the right time through centralized, coordinated, comprehensive, and compassionate care with the intent to improve the child’s growth and development, the family’s satisfaction, and decrease unnecessary hospital utilization.
Our goal is to optimize care for children with medical complexity through partnerships with caregivers and medical neighborhoods so that children can reach their greatest potential and experience life more fully.
Our vision is to provide an exemplary model of family-centered complex care that unites the medical neighborhood to improve quality of life and community integration for children and their families.
As a parent, I truly felt heard, and for the first time, we had hope for her future instead of feeling like we were just surviving.
What are the qualifications for acceptance into Care Coordination and Medical Home programs?
Child has two or more chronic conditions that require active management, cause functional limitations, and/or decrease life expectancy
Child’s care involves at least three specialists
Child is possibly dependent on technology (tracheostomy, G-tube, VPS, central line etc.) and/or requires private duty nursing
Child has one or more admissions in the past two years and/or one or more emergency room visit in the past year
Resources
Click on the link below for more helpful forms, websites and resources for patient families.
Comprehensive and Compassionate Care
Our purpose is to achieve the triple aim of the right care, at the right place, at the right time through centralized, coordinated, comprehensive, and compassionate care with the intent to improve the child’s growth and development, the family’s satisfaction, and decrease unnecessary hospital utilization.
Our goal is to optimize care for children with medical complexity through partnerships with caregivers and medical neighborhoods so that children can reach their greatest potential and experience life more fully.
Our vision is to provide an exemplary model of family-centered complex care that unites the medical neighborhood to improve quality of life and community integration for children and their families.
What are the qualifications for acceptance into Care Coordination and Medical Home programs?
Child has two or more chronic conditions that require active management, cause functional limitations, and/or decrease life expectancy
Child’s care involves at least three specialists
Child is possibly dependent on technology (tracheostomy, G-tube, VPS, central line etc.) and/or requires private duty nursing
Child has one or more admissions in the past two years and/or one or more emergency room visit in the past year
Resources
Click on the link below for more helpful forms, websites and resources for patient families.
Harper's strength shines after a first-of-a-kind heart procedureWhen Harper was 4 days old, her NICU nurse flagged a heart murmur that needed attention. An echocardiogram confirmed that the newborn had several complex congenital heart defects. Candice, a first-time mom, worked as a patient technician in her late teens to explore a career in health care. Today, she is a full-time employee at Children's Health℠. Even so, she remembers feeling overwhelmed by Harper's diagnosis.
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The power of Complex CareCamilla weighed just 3 pounds when she was born prematurely in June 2015. She was immediately put on life support, and shortly after, had a stroke that affected the right side of her brain.
Read MoreMeet the Care Team
Monica Blazek, MDPediatrician - Complex Care
Patricia Hicks, MDPediatrician - Complex Care
Patricia Petroff, MDPediatrician - Complex Care
Elizabeth Thomas, DOPediatrician
Beatriz MacDonald Wer, PhDPediatric Neuropsychologist
Kaitlyn Sheetz, APRN, PNP-ACNurse Practitioner - Complex Care
Veronica Edgar, PhD, ABPPPediatric Neuropsychologist
