Children's Hospital New Orleans, Child Life Department
Children's Hospital New Orleans, Child Life Department
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About this organization
Mission
Children's Hospital's mission is to provide comprehensive pediatric healthcare, which recognizes the special needs of children, through excellence and the continuous improvement of patient care, education, research, child advocacy and management.
About
Community Care and Outreach Programs: In March of 1998, the Board of Trustees recognized that Children's Hospital, with its richness of talent and programs and its financial resources, was well positioned to identify and address obstacles to the welfare of children in the community. Therefore, a standing committee of the Board of Trustees has been charged with developing and monitoring all services and benefits provided to the community.The hospital also provides a large array of community-education programs, wellness programs, research activities and special programs for the handicapped and medically underserved. These include, but are not limited to, the following:Children's Hospital Outpatient Center of Baton Rouge was immediately established following Hurricane Katrina to reach out to patients who relocated to the Baton Rouge area. Clinic space was purchased for Children's Hospital's pediatric specialists and pediatricians to see patients on a weekly basis. The clinic is fully staffed to meet the needs of the growing pediatric population in Baton Rouge. Children's Hospital Burdin Riehl Clinic was established in Lafayette to meet the needs of those patients who relocated to the area following Hurricane Katrina. Both the Baton Rouge and Lafayette clinics provide care with the same guidelines as the hospital - no child is ever turned away. Doctors at these locations continue to see numbers of patients. The hospital loses approximately $43,000 per month on these two clinics.The Metairie Center is a satellite clinic for pediatric specialists who see patients in the Metairie area. The Northshore Clinic is a satellite clinic for pediatric specialists who see patients in the Covington and Mandeville areas. The Children's Healthcare Assistance Plan (CHAP) provides physician and hospital services at no cost to children whose family income is too high to qualify for Medicaid but whose lack of resources limit their access to quality healthcare. Free care provided by the hospital, at established charges, was approximately $14,989,021 for the year-end December 31, 2016. Benefits to the indigent also include charges in excess of government payments for services provided to Medicaid beneficiaries of approximately $518,479,009 for the year-end December 31, 2016. In addition, Children's Hospital had to write-off approximately $5,235,314 of patient care charges that could not be collected from patients. The Parenting Center is a community resource program providing support and education to parents. The goals of the Center are to promote confidence and competence in parents, to encourage optimal child development, and to enhance the well being of the family as a whole. The Parenting Center offers: 1) parent training classes, 2) a free telephone advice line, 895-KIDS, 3) drop-in visits to the Center to offer time with other parents and staff while the children play, 4) community outreach programs, such as lunch bag seminars for working parents, and 5) weekly television segments featuring childrearing tips. Services have been extended to suburban New Orleans with the opening of The Metairie Parenting Center, which also offers classes, support groups, individual counseling and a parent library. The Audrey Hepburn Children At Risk Evaluation (CARE) Center provides comprehensive forensic medical evaluations and referrals to community resources for children who are victims of sexual abuse, physical abuse and neglect and their families. The CARE Center has clinics in New Orleans, Baton Rouge and St. Tammany, but children are referred from parishes throughout Louisiana and the Gulf Coast. The medical evaluation consists of a detailed forensic interview of the child and the caretaker, a complete physical examination, and preparation of a report to the referring agency. In addition, the physicians are frequently called upon to testify in court in those cases of sexual and physical abuse that are prosecuted. Both physicians have testified in and helped prepare numerous cases in the last year. The CARE Center staff routinely presents lectures on child abuse and neglect to community action and professional medical and legal groups, pediatric nurses, nurse technicians, childcare technicians, dental hygiene students, high school students and child care workers. They also serve as consultants to the State of Louisiana and outlying parishes and to Office of Community Services for Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes. Currently, the program consists of two full-time fellowship trained pediatricians and one fellow in training.The center receives financial support from the Audrey Hepburn Foundation, which also provides financial assistance to similar centers in Los Angeles, CA. and Hackensack, N.J.The Greater New Orleans Immunization Network (GNOIN) is a model program focusing on increasing immunization rates of children through the age of 18 years. GNOIN offers the combined elements of an immunization registry into the state's system, a mailer reminder system, parental education, and a mobile immunization unit that travels throughout the metropolitan New Orleans area to administer immunizations free of charge to eligible infants, children and adolescents through the age of 18 years. In 2016, GNOIN had 13,057 visits to the immunization unit and administered 24,579 vaccines. The School Kids Immunization Program (SKIP) grew out of a need to increase the immunization rates for school-age children identified by GNOIN. SKIP is presently working with schools located in New Orleans East, St. Bernard, Orleans, and Jefferson Parish. SKIP works with individual schools and reviews all the students' immunization records. Students, not in the state's immunization registry, LA Immunization Network for Kids Statewide (LINKS), are enrolled into the data registry. The parents of students who do not have up-to-date immunization records are notified as to which vaccine(s) their child requires. They receive immunization information and a consent form that authorizes SKIP to administer the necessary vaccine(s) to their child free-of-charge. In 2016, SKIP immunized 6,535 students and administered 10,157 vaccines. The combined immunization programs, SKIP & GNOIN, are the number one providers of immunizations in the state. Combined the programs immunized a total of 19,592 children and administered 34,736 vaccinations in 2016.The Clinical Dietitian Program provides and monitors the nutritional care of patients in conjunction with the Dietetic Services Department and hospital clinical staff. The program is staffed during the workweek and as needed on weekends to be available to all inpatients and outpatients through the Community Care Program and Diabetes Grant. Services and diagnoses include nutritional assessments and monitoring via physician consultation, nutritional education and counseling, establishment of nutritional care plans and interdisciplinary goals, participation in the establishment and revision of patient meal and formula policies and procedures and nutrition care standards and CQI activities, and conduct departmental and clinical staff and dietetic intern education services.The Ventilator Assisted Care Program (VACP) provides case management for Medicaid eligible children living at home in the state of Louisiana and are ventilated assisted. The program also provides nursing, social, educational and respiratory assessments, and facilitates medical intervention for this population. The staff provides aid in the access of social and healthcare supports in the community. In 2016, services were provided to an average of 84 patients per month.**Total visits:_89,022
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
In the filing, the mission of the non-profit is noted as “To provide comprehensive pediatric healthcare, that recognizes the special needs of children, through excellence and the continuous improvement of patient care, education, research, child advocacy, and management.”.
When referring to its responsibilities, they were outlined as: “To provide comprehensive pediatric healthcare, which recognizes the special needs of children, through excellence and the continuous improvement of patient care, education, research, child advocacy, and management.”.
- The state in which the non-profit is legally registered to operate is LA, as per legal records.
- The filing documents the non-profit's address in 2020 as 200 Henry Clay Ave, New Orleans, LA, 701185720.
- According to the non-profit's form, they have 2315 employees on their payroll as of 2020.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is $79,624,784.
- The organization has 13 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1949.
- The organization pays $117,592,126 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $3,448,280 in fundraising expenses.
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