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Abstract
Children with medical complexity experience frequent hospitalizations and pose a unique challenge for the pediatric hospitalist and their healthcare team. Pediatric hospitalists are ideally positioned to champion improved care coordination for CMC and to address the areas of need in clinical practice, quality improvement and research. Lessons learned from programs who were Healthcare Innovation Award recipients from Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation that were aimed at improving care for this population are presented. We focused on care coordination activities implemented during hospitalization. Through a series of meetings with the participating programs, we identified common themes across awarded programs. Programs described key aspects of care coordination during the hospital stay, beginning on admission (multidisciplinary team goal setting, family partnership and action planning), through hospitalization (integrating outpatient and inpatient care), as well as during and after discharge (linking to community-based systems and supports, expanding the transition concept). Finally, we present actionable steps for inpatient providers seeking to improve care for this patient population at the time of hospitalization.
- Copyright © 2020 by the American Academy of Pediatrics
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