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Transition Care Home in Lilburn, Ga.
At Issue: Families and communities face a phenomenon for which there is no precedent or clearly defined path for resolution.
- Life-saving medical advances save more children, leaving some fully-dependent on the very technology that saved them.
- Lacking adequate support and resources, biological families find it increasingly difficult to care for their medically fragile children at home.
The Situation: Families and communities are unprepared, unable or in some cases, unwilling to provide the higher, specialized level of care these children require.
- This epidemic is exploding throughout our society without a supporting infrastructure of resources or community-based training programs to address the issue.
- Many give up their children because they feel they have no other choice.
The Consequences: Medically fragile children languish forgotten in Georgia hospitals and adult nursing homes because there is no where for them to go.
- Today, medically fragile children live for months, and in some instances for years, in hospitals and adult nursing homes.
- These children are often placed in foster homes with families woefully unprepared or properly trained to care for them.
- As a result, these children often move from foster home to foster home, then back to hospitals or adult nursing facilities, spending years bouncing 'around the system.'
- Children already struggling to cope with health deficits cannot handle the emotional toll their continued displacement causes.
- Resulting behaviorial instabilities make finding permanent homes even more difficult.
- Losing continuity of care deteriorates their already fragile conditions.
- Greater health care issues arise, causing more hospital admissions and escalating direct-care costs.
- These precious, innocent children are at greater risk for fatal outcomes.
- Family for KeepsŪ course participants benefit from hands-on skills lab training with a clinical nurse educator.
Dream House Solution: Specialized training and resources allow children to be placed in more appropriate settings.
- The groundbreaking Dream House Family for KeepsŪ Transition Care Program prepares and enables families to care for these children in their own homes.
Benefits and Outcomes: This patent-pending Transition Model of Care yields fewer care mistakes, and has allowed more medically fragile children to remain in stable home settings. Read more...
