Children's Care Coordination
This family-driven, patient-focused, and physician-led program promotes community-based, coordinated care for children with special and medically complex health care needs.
What to Expect from Your Care Coordinator
Our team is made up of inpatient and outpatient care coordinators who work with primary care providers and specialists. We link families to community resources and act as patient advocates within the school system. We pay attention to inpatient-outpatient transitions and adult transitions, as well as coordinating multiple surgical procedures.
Your care coordinator will:
- Serve as an expert on community resources.
- Facilitate referrals, wrap-around meetings and care conferences.
- Act as a contact point between your family, your care team and community providers.
- Guide you through the health care system.
- Coordinate multiple specialty appointments in a single day at the Idaho Elks Children's Pavilion.
- Coordinate multiple procedures under a single sedation, when appropriate.
- Track interventions and outcomes through care plans.
- Support primary care providers and specialists.
- Attend care conferences.
- Provide support and advocacy in the school, home, and community.
- Assist with any medical or therapeutic concerns or challenges your family might face.
To access care coordination, your primary care provider or specialist will need to initiate a program referral.
Ways We Can Help
Children with special health care needs often require accommodations and individualized support when entering the educational system. An outpatient care coordinator can assist with requesting services for your child through your local school district.
Your care coordinator can attend school meetings, coordinate communication between the school and your medical team, as well as assist with writing health care plans to ensure your child’s health care needs are being met.