Helping Kids Get At-Home Care
Year Developed: 2018
Resource Type: Publication.Primary Audience: Clinicians, Enabling Staff
Secondary Audience: Board of Directors
C-Suite (CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, COOs, CMOs, etc)
Clinicians
Enabling Staff
Outreach Staff
PCAs
Language(s): English
Developed by: National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership (See other resources developed by this organization).
Resource Summary: What would you do if your one-year old child depended on a ventilator to breathe, and the home nursing care needed to monitor it wasn’t available? Would you keep your child in the hospital indefinitely? Would you quit your job to be home with your child, and stay up all night to make sure they didn’t stop breathing? Would you put them in a long-term nursing facility 80 miles away where they’d have the care they needed, but where you wouldn’t see them for days at a time? In 2015, for several parents in Washington State, the heartbreaking answer to all these questions was yes.
Resource Topic: , Special and Vulnerable Populations
Resource Subtopic: Policy and Advocacy, Enabling Services (ES), Patient-Centered Health Outcomes, Patient-Centered Medical Home, Social Determinants of Health (SDOH).
Keywords: Adolescents and Youth, Pediatrics (Infants, Toddlers, and Children), Medical Legal Partnerships (MLPs).This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $6,625,000 with 0 percentage financed with non-governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit HRSA.gov.