Background: Children with medical complexity (CMC) have higher hospitalizations and readmissions compared to children without medical complexity. While CMC were institutionalized in the past, increasingly CMCs are now cared for at home. Caring for individuals with disabilities at home, and not congregate care settings is a Healthy People 2020 Objective. Home health nursing, especially good-quality care, is important for CMC. The purpose of this research is to test whether collaboration between home health nurses, primary-care doctors, and the complex care team (a special team at Brenner Children's Hospital that provides care for children with complex chronic medical conditions (CCMC)) can improve the health of these children.
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Rate of Hospitalization
Timeframe: 6 months
Rate of ER visits
Timeframe: 6 months
Days to readmission
Timeframe: 6 months