Center for the Urban Child and Healthy Family News

Quarterly E-News: December 2020

• Pediatric Practice of the Future Update: Pilot Underway
  In partnership with primary care and our families, the Center for the Urban Child and Healthy Family (CUCHF) developed a new care model—the Pediatric Practice of the Future—that ensures all children are healthy and ready to learn, with adequate support to thrive, by five years old. 

• Spotlight on Innovation in Pediatrics: Mobile Unit Launched to Ensure Families Have Access to Care in the Face of COVID-19
  Amidst the novel coronavirus pandemic, families seen at the Department of Pediatrics were particularly susceptible to the health and economic consequences of the COVID-19 crisis. Many families who receive their care at Boston Medical Center, particularly those with very young children, were weighing the costs and benefits of potentially exposing themselves and their children to the virus in order to visit the hospital for essential vaccines. 

• "The Science, Practice and Narrative of Thriving Families": BMC Pediatrics Awarded Grant to Support Joint Efforts of the Center and Children’s HealthWatch
  In May 2020, the Department of Pediatrics was awarded a three-year grant from The JPB Foundation. Together, Children’s HealthWatch and the Center for the Urban Child and Healthy Family are implementing a three-pronged approach—coordinating across research, practice innovation and community narrative building—to support families’ ability to thrive.

• Center for the Urban Child and Healthy Family Evaluating the Impact of Innovative Initiative in Pediatric Treatment of Asthma
  Asthma is a disease that disproportionately affects children from marginalized communities and is a major source of health care costs for our pediatric primary care patients. Children in the communities we serve (such as Mattapan, Roxbury and Dorchester) have rates of emergency department (ED) visits for asthma that are two to three times that of children who live in wealthier communities in Boston. 

• Announcing Spring 2020 Alpert Award Grantees
  The Joel and Barbara Alpert Endowment for Children of the City was established at Boston University School of Medicine in honor of the work carried out by the Alperts over their 25 years with Boston City Hospital, Boston Medical Center and the Boston University medical community. 

Quarterly E-News: August 2019

• Changing the Care Paradigm: Focusing on Resilient Family Development
  The Center for the Urban Child and Healthy Family is working with a local firm to design the Pediatric Practice of the Future model, which will ensure all children are healthy and ready to learn by age five.

• Center Publishes Second Installment of Bi-Annual Report
  The latest report highlights progress around key initiatives, including the creation of the Pediatric Practice of the Future and evaluation of clinical programs.

• News and Upcoming Events
  Check out the latest happenings at the Center for the Urban Child and Healthy Family!

Quarterly E-News: March 2019

• Grant from The Boston Foundation Facilitates Innovative Partnership
  A new partnership between The Center for the Urban Child and Healthy Family, the Vital Village Network and Economic Mobility Pathways will focus on addressing children’s needs and achieving optimal health. 

• 18 Recommendations for Implementing Trauma-Informed Approaches in Pediatrics
  The Center for the Urban Child and Healthy Family creates list of trauma-informed approaches to care to help children who have experienced traumatic events. 

• Moving Forward the Pediatric Practice of the Future: What We’re Learning from Families
  New partnership with Agncy is helping the Center for the Urban Child and Healthy Family better understand what needs to be done systematically to build the Pediatric Practice of the Future. 

Quarterly E-News: December 2018

• EASE Clinic Forging New Relationships with Schools and Families
  The Center’s focus on partnerships with school systems in the community is allowing pediatricians to become stronger champions of patients’ educational plans.
   
• Families Visiting BMC from Across the State to Receive Care: Center Maps Pediatric Patient Panel
  The Center for the Urban Child and Healthy Family has begun mapping its pediatric primary care families by zip code in order to better understand the families it serves.
   
• Pediatric Family Advisory Board is Active in Community Events
  Boston Medical Center’s Pediatric Family Advisory Board working collaboratively with Pediatrics, providing input about care, and is engaging families across the hospital and in the community.
   
• Moving Forward the Pediatric Practice of the Future: Using Human Centered Design to Elevate the Voices of Families
  The Center for the Urban Child and Healthy Family and the Department of Pediatrics are leading efforts to build the Pediatric Practice of the Future through fundamental systems change—creating and scaling novel health delivery approaches, and working with families, inter-disciplinary colleagues, communities and other family-serving sectors.