American Academy of Pediatrics’ Post

I'm thrilled to see a bill in Louisiana pushed forward by State Rep. Echols requiring Medicaid to cover home visits for newborns. Louisiana's infant and maternal health outcomes are among the worst in the country and, currently, the state's programs designed to decrease infant and maternal mortality rates reach only 10% of newborns on Medicaid, according to the Louisiana Policy Institute for Children. This bill proves that legislatures are realizing that home visiting is critical to improve these outcomes. At Nest Health, we're taking this work to the next level by putting the family back in family medicine. Nest is a family's healthcare home: we provide comprehensive medical, behavioral, and social care for the whole family through in-home and virtual visits, behavioral interventions and therapy, social support and navigation, and 24/7 clinical care support. Nest's multidisciplinary and diverse care team delivers longitudinal care at the right time and place to the entire family, from grandparents to infants to post-partum women, addressing the root cause of unnecessarily high hospital utilization and poor-quality outcomes. Nest: a family's healthcare home 🏠.

Caring for fragile patients has long been central to Radiometer’s purpose; from our days developing special equipment to help diagnose children with polio, to our current role in supporting professionals in the NICU. World Prematurity Day on November 17 is a time to raise awareness of the fact that globally, 1 in 10 babies is born preterm. [1] Our aim is to support those 1 in 10 by helping to reduce unnecessary invasive intervention, stress and pain in neonates. Additionally, preterm newborns are exposed to around 50 skin punctures on average during the first 4 weeks of life [2]. #WorldPrematurityDay2023 #WPD2023

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2023 marked a year of global impact for CHSC as we supported 30 partner hospitals spread across 26 countries. Last year we helped our partners care for around 24,000 children and infants. 🌍🏥 #GlobalHealthcare #CHSCImpact #PartnerHospitals #GlobalHealth #MedicalMission #MedicalMissions

The number of infants who die before their first birthday continues to be a cause for concern in central Ohio. Central Ohio's hospital systems, Mount Carmel Health, Nationwide Children's Hospital, OhioHealth, and The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, together with CelebrateOne and many community partners, are committed to eliminating preventable sleep-related infant deaths, decreasing preterm births, addressing social health-related factors and improving service delivery to reduce infant mortality and racial disparities in birth outcomes. We have made important progress over the last six years, but our work is not complete. Clinical leaders from central Ohio's hospital systems co-authored a letter to the community, shedding light on root causes of infant deaths and asking the community at large to offer help, attention, and compassion as we work together to meet the needs of new parents. https://loom.ly/XxdiMzA Mount Carmel Health System Nationwide Children's Hospital OhioHealth The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center CelebrateOne #CentralOhioHospitalCouncil #COHC #BetterTogether #ReduceInfantMortality #Safesleep #CityOfColumbus #InfantMortalityPrevention #InfantMortalityAwareness #ColumbusDispatch #MaternalHealth #PrenatalCare

Early detection can lead to more minimally invasive treatment

Caregivers of children with pediatric feeding difficulties often have high stress levels and have challenges balancing personal needs while worrying about their child’s health (Simone et al., 2020). Register for our webinar presented by Dr. Andrea Sherman and Dr. Judy Hopkins on January 9th to increase your understanding of picky eating and to learn practical strategies to support children and families affected by pediatric feeding disorders- https://buff.ly/3SPXjTF

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