Center For The Urban Child and Healthy Family

Pediatric Practice of the Future

“The greatest predictor of a child’s health should not be his or her zip code.”

Pediatric care represents a tremendous opportunity to improve children’s health and well-being—infants come to primary care 6 times in the first year of life alone, and pediatric providers develop longitudinal relationships with families. But to best care for children and families, we must re-design our care delivery to actively partner both other health care providers (like adult medicine, obstetrics-gynecology and psychiatry), educators and community organizations; develop novel programs; and bring the best of existing evidence into our daily practice.

The Center, in collaboration with BMC Pediatrics Primary Care is creating the Pediatric Practice of the Future that:

• Empowers families to define their health priorities and design their own care
• Provides care to the family
• Provides new opportunities to promote social and emotional child health
• Develops deeper community partnerships
• Leverages technology to provide flexible care options and facilitate communication
• Re-thinks the composition and roles of care team members

Healthy and Ready to Learn by 5

The Center has set a goal that by 2028, all children seen in BMC Pediatrics will be healthy, ready to learn, with adequate support to thrive by age five. Focus on this age group enables:

• Emphasis on bi-generational wellness
• Connection with other child serving agencies
• Focus on formational time for life course health
• National momentum within Medicaid around early childhood and school readiness
• Sector with most reach during this time period
• Investment in early childhood promotes health across the life course