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CONTACT: Laura Moore, Dream House Founder and CEO, 770-717-7410 ext 108, laura.moore@dreamhouseforkids.org
Georgia’s First Lady to Visit Dream House
Sandra Deal is set to tour the State’s first Children’s Transition Care Center.
March 2, 2011 (Snellville, GA) – Dream House for Medically Fragile Children, Inc. confirmed today that Georgia’s First Lady, Sandra Deal, will tour the organization’s flagship Family for Keeps® Transition Care Home in Lilburn on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. This facility is licensed as the first Children’s Transition Care Center (CTCC) in Georgia, and serves children with complex health care needs from all over the state. Mrs. Deal will learn more about the patent-pending Transition Model of Care while touring this 8,400 s.f. home that is the first residential facility in Georgia to provide 24-hour nursing and skills training to prepare each child and family for transition to their own home.
“We are especially honored that Mrs. Deal is interested in learning more about the challenges and barriers facing Georgia’s medically fragile children,” said Laura Moore, Dream House Founder and CEO. “The value of forming a resource infrastructure that makes it possible for families and communities to care for their medically complex children at home is starting to gain traction in Georgia. My hope is for the First Lady to understand that for half the cost of acute care settings, the Family for Keeps® Transition Care Program can effectively and efficiently prepare the child, family and home environment, discharge the child sooner, reduce hospital readmissions, and keep more families together.”
Governor Deal’s inaugural transition team selected the Dream House organization to benefit from the January 8, 2011 “With a Servant’s Heart – Day of Service.” Along with a team of volunteers from Magellan Health Services, a group organized by Deal for Governor Gwinnett Chair Ben Satterfield, completed many projects at the Dream House Family for Keeps® Transition Care Home that day.
“Observing the Dream House staff working with the children (patients) was amazing,” said Mr. Satterfield, a Lilburn resident and Dream House corporate supporter. “There is not enough money anywhere to buy the love and attention that Dream House staff devote to these special children. We did accomplish a great deal in the few hours we worked. Upon departing, the service that all the volunteers rendered hit me full force. Thank you (Dream House) for the feelings all of us experienced in serving your great endeavor.”
The Dream House organization operates its wraparound, hospital-to-home program as an approved Medicaid provider under Georgia Healthy Families and GAPP, and is also contracted to serve private insurance patients covered by Aetna. Dream House continues provider contract negotiations with other insurance companies, as well. Referring agency case managers (hospital, insurance and DFCS) may call the Referral Line (678) 485-4810, or visit http://www.dreamhouseforkids.org to review the referral and admission guidelines.
A 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization devoted to serving children with chronic, complex health care issues, Dream House relies on primarily on private funding to operate its patent-pending Transition Model of Care that empowers families and communities to care for their medically fragile children at home. For more information, visit http://www.dreamhouseforkids.org or call 770-717-7410.
