Center For The Urban Child and Healthy Family

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“The greatest predictor of a child’s health should not be his or her zip code.”

Statistics about 3 social programs at BMC

BMC Pediatrics in particular is home to some of the world's most important and widely disseminated care innovations including Reach Out and Read, Medical-Legal Partnership and Health Leads. That is why BMC is uniquely positioned to be on the forefront of designing and implementing new models of care that meet the complex health and social needs of urban children and their families. Boston Medical Center (BMC) has a long and successful history of caring for the city’s most vulnerable patients. In a city that is the epicenter for training and delivery of world-class innovative health care, BMC is the largest safety net hospital in New England. As such, BMC has long recognized that an individual’s economic status, education level, access to good schools, secure housing, food, and so much more can impact health. That's why for more than 100 years, whether caring for newborns, children, or adults, the hospital’s clinical teams have focused not only on the medical needs of each patient, but also on the social needs.

In 2016, BMC Pediatrics launched the Center for the Urban Child and Healthy Family, to revolutionize the model of care for pediatric patients and their families, standing at the epicenter of clinical care, research, and the community.

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Center For The Urban Child and Healthy Family Leadership Team

Sara N. Stulac, MD

Pediatrician

Lucy E Marcil, MD, MPH

Pediatrician

Elisha M Wachman, MD

Neonatologist; Vice Chair for Research, Department of Pediatrics

Practice of the Future Clinical Innovation Team

Barbara Alcena
Financial Coach

Rachael Claborn
Social Worker

Katherine Edson
Practice Transformation Coordinator

Cyndie Hatcher
Provider and Clinical Champion

Elizabeth Jimenez Kog
Community Wellness Advocate

Myrca Joseph
Community Wellness Advocate

Kandice Pina
Practice Coordinator

Sara Stulac
Provider

Rosie Wilder
Practice Coordinator

Research and Evaluation Team

Hedaya Badr
Research Assistant

Miriam Bremer-Kamen
Research Coordinator

Audrey Cantillon
Research Assistant

Naya Habr
Research Assistant

Yasaman Khorsandian
Research Assistant

Joshua Lim
Research Assistant

Leena Sarhan
Research Assistant

Michelle Stransky
Senior Research Scientist

Julia Trifan
Senior Research Assistant

Family Advisory Board

Shay Simmons, Parent Liaison

April Alston

Jennifer Cotard

Maisha Harley

Soraya Harley

Afeisha Henry-Renne

Chatoya Lawson

Evelyn Lilly

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The Executive and Family Advisory Board for the Center For The Urban Child and Healthy Family.

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Implementing evidence-based programs into our clinical care and developing and evaluating new programs is central to our mission, vision and guiding principles. All Center projects will use data to assess and improve the interventions and to ensure sustainability. For example, we will determine families’ satisfaction with the program and with their clinical care, relevant health and health care use measures, and cost and cost savings.

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Pediatric Practice of the Future

“The greatest predictor of a child’s health should not be his or her zip code.”

Pediatric care represents a tremendous opportunity to improve children’s health and well-being—infants come to primary care 6 times in the first year of life alone, and pediatric providers develop longitudinal relationships with families. But to best care for children and families, we must re-design our care delivery to actively partner both other health care providers (like adult medicine, obstetrics-gynecology and psychiatry), educators and community organizations; develop novel programs; and bring the best of existing evidence into our daily practice.

The Center, in collaboration with BMC Pediatrics Primary Care is creating the Pediatric Practice of the Future that:

Empowers families to define their health priorities and design their own care
Provides care to the family
Provides new opportunities to promote social and emotional child health
Develops deeper community partnerships
Leverages technology to provide flexible care options and facilitate communication
Re-thinks the composition and roles of care team members

Healthy and Ready to Learn by 5

The Center has set a goal that by 2028, all children seen in BMC Pediatrics will be healthy, ready to learn, with adequate support to thrive by age five. Focus on this age group enables:

Emphasis on bi-generational wellness
Connection with other child serving agencies
Focus on formational time for life course health
National momentum within Medicaid around early childhood and school readiness
Sector with most reach during this time period
Investment in early childhood promotes health across the life course