Many families take for granted the ritual of taking a newborn baby home, car seat and curated swaddle blankets in tow, just a few days after delivery. But as critical care pediatricians, we care for ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — When the Children’s Comprehensive Care Clinic was established in 2012, leaders behind the project had set goals in mind: to improve patient care and reduce the burden on families ...

Parents of children with the most complex medical conditions are more likely to report poor or fair mental health and struggle to find community help, according to a study completed by researchers at ...

Parents of kids with medical complexity face challenges other parents don’t. But how is their mental health compared to their counterparts whose children don’t face problems such as chronic diseases, ...

Findings highlight importance of addressing neurodevelopmental and mental health conditions in this population. HealthDay News — Children with medical complexity often have neurodevelopmental and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Children with 3 or more complex conditions filled antibiotic prescriptions at 5 times the rate of healthy ...

Over more than eight decades, Ranken Jordan Pediatric Bridge Hospital has challenged conventional thinking about how children heal. Now, with the creation of a new executive role, the St. Louis–based ...

The Pediatric Comprehensive Care clinic is within the division of Pediatric Complex Care. Our comprehensive care program helps children between the ages of 0 and 21 with medical complexity. Medical ...

It’s our hope that more state Medicaid programs, families, managed care, and providers including hospitals, clinics, and primary care practices, will work together to transform care for hundreds of ...

The implementation of alternative payment models within pediatrics has trailed behind adult medicine. However, children with medical complexity (CMC) serve as a promising population that could greatly ...

A new study from Boston Children's Hospital found that annual prescription rates increased nonlinearly as children's underlying level of medical complexity increased. Frequent antibiotic use has ...