Pediatricians and the team members that make up an integrated and recovery friendly medical home enhance the delivery of primary care services to children and families affected by prenatal opioid exposure. View innovative and promising practices that embrace the core tenants of patient and family centered care. These practices share how they build on family strengths and promote positive parenting to support families in recovery. Each model of care is reviewed by the Maternal and Infant Health Core Planning Team and selected for replicable strategies that promote pediatric medical home approaches to care.


HOPE Clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital – Massachusetts

The HOPE Clinic strives to offer the best care to infants and mothers in recovery. The clinic takes late and walk-in appointments and aims to build a strong, positive, and well-rounded support community for the families.

PEDI Clinic at Healthy Start Coalition of Hillsborough County – Florida

The team at PEDI Clinic is promoting the need for empathetic, nonjudgmental, positive, and trauma-informed approaches to care in the inpatient and outpatient setting, and stateside through the Florida Perinatal Quality Collaborative (FPQC).

The Purple Pod at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Children’s Hospital – New Hampshire

The standards of care and health services at Purple Pod are built on the key principles of the recovery-friendly practice that value the positive partnerships and long-term collaborations between families and clinical team.

FOCUS Program at University of New Mexico

The FOCUS team members use simple collaborative exploration strategies to educate mothers and provide essential anticipatory guidance information. Through this conversational technique mothers receive information gradually in small quantities, based on their elicited concerns, that does not exceed their attention span.

Healthy Babies Program at Maternity Care Coalition – Pennsylvania

Healthy Babies supports families in recovery in establishing a long-term relationship with a specific program Advocate. Throughout pregnancy and the first year and half postpartum, the Advocates build a community around the family and engage the infants’ kindship or foster caregivers and any other family members.

SOFAR Clinic at Boston Medical Center – Massachusetts

Many women travel to Boston Medical Center from out of the city and even of state to deliver here and to access the services offered by the SOFAR Clinic. The clinic serves in a medical home capacity, providing families with care stability that positively influences a mothers’ recovery and treatment course.

The Foster Care Clinic at Texas Children’s Hospital

Clinicians at Foster Care clinic regard the infant’s health and well-being as the mutual concern and common ground with families and caregivers. This is an opportunity to connect with birth parents and establish a positive relationship focused on the health goals for the infant and for the family.

Baby Steps at East Tennessee State University Health Pediatrics

Birth parents and infants receiving care and medical services through Baby Steps are surrounded with continuous support and competent clinicians that prioritize the health and well-being of the entire family.

CAP Pediatric Clinic at The John Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

The clinical team CAP Pediatrics prioritizes trauma-informed approaches and care that addresses the needs of the mother-infant dyad as a unit. Aside from individualized clinical care and treatment plans, CAP Pediatrics also offers anticipatory guidance based on the unique needs of each family.

Albany Medical Center Pediatric Group – New York

The Health Equity Team embedded in the AMCGenPeds practice and staffed through a partnership with the local school of public health, screens families for social drivers of health at every health supervision visit.

MaineMOM at Mid Coast – Maine

Integrated within the Mid Coast Pediatrics, MaineMOM program supports a multidisciplinary community health system that addresses a full continuum of care, wellness and prevention.

Inspiring Practice at NPQIC and Nebraska Medicine – Nebraska

Program staff at NPQIC including physicians, nurses, discharge coordinators, and social workers spend significant time and collaborate closely when crafting each individual plan of care for infants and birth parents.

Inspiring Practice at NFP-RISE of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) – Pennsylvania

An important goal of the NFP-RISE team is to minimize the complexity of medical information and knowledge by rephrasing and adjusting language to best communicate with families during visits.

Oasis Center of the Rogue Valley, Medford – Oregon

Integrating pediatric and adult care, Oasis Center is well known throughout the community as a family medical home, and a safe clinic for pregnant and parenting people with opioid use disorder (OUD), and their infants. The center reinforces the need for wrap-around services for prenatal, postpartum, pediatric medical care and addiction treatment.

Last Updated

05/19/2023

Source

American Academy of Pediatrics