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“The greatest predictor of a child’s health should not be his or her zip code.”
BMC Pediatrics in particular is home to some of the world's most important and widely disseminated care innovations including Reach Out and Read, Medical-Legal Partnership and Health Leads. That is why BMC is uniquely positioned to be on the forefront of designing and implementing new models of care that meet the complex health and social needs of urban children and their families. Boston Medical Center (BMC) has a long and successful history of caring for the city’s most vulnerable patients. In a city that is the epicenter for training and delivery of world-class innovative health care, BMC is the largest safety net hospital in New England. As such, BMC has long recognized that an individual’s economic status, education level, access to good schools, secure housing, food, and so much more can impact health. That's why for more than 100 years, whether caring for newborns, children, or adults, the hospital’s clinical teams have focused not only on the medical needs of each patient, but also on the social needs.
In 2016, BMC Pediatrics launched the Center for the Urban Child and Healthy Family, to revolutionize the model of care for pediatric patients and their families, standing at the epicenter of clinical care, research, and the community.
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Center For The Urban Child and Healthy Family Leadership Team
Executive Director
Administrative Director
Program Director
Deputy Director
Deputy Director of Practice Transformation
Deputy Director of Data Analytics and Processes
Pediatrics Department Chair
Practice of the Future Clinical Innovation Team
Louxandra Clark
Nurse
Lupita Estela
Community Wellness Advocate
Mitsouka Exantus
Community Wellness Advocate
Cyndie Hatcher
Provider
Kandice Pina
Practice Coordinator
Sara Stulac
Provider
Rosie Wilder
Practice Coordinator
Research and Evaluation Team
Katie Edson
Research Assistant
Ajaycia Jackson
Research Assistant
Miriam Kamens
Research and Evaluation Coordinator
Michelle Stransky
Research Scientist
Lexie Van Waess
Research Assistant
Family Advisory Board
Shay Simmons, Parent Liaison
April Alston
Jennifer Cotard
Maisha Harley
Soraya Harley
Afeisha Henry-Renne
Chatoya Lawson
Evelyn Lilly
National Advisory Board
Tina Cheng, MD, MPH
Chair, Department of Pediatrics
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Andrew Garner, MD, PhD, FAAP
Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Chair, Leadership Workgroup on Early Brain and Child Development
American Academy of Pediatrics
Angelo Peter Giardino, MD, PhD
Senior Vice President/Chief Quality Officer
Texas Children's Hospital
Joyce M. Lee, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases
Division of Pediatric Endocrinology
Child Health Evaluation and Research (CHEAR) Center
Joshua Sharfstein, MD
Associate Dean, Public Health Practice and Training
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
Benjamin Siegel, MD
Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Jason Wang, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Stanford University
Barry Zuckerman, MD
Joel and Barbara Professor of Pediatrics
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
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Recursos del Proveedor
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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
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