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For years, Cook Children’s made sure to cover its bases by providing family-centered pediatric care in patients’ homes around the Fort Worth region. But in 2011, that home field expanded. Cook Children’s Home Health added an office in Dallas to better serve the patients who sometimes have a difficult transition from a medical center setting to their own homes. “We branched out to the Dallas area to help a group of patient families who otherwise would not receive the special care we provide,” said Brady Gendke, vice president of operations at Cook Children’s Home Health. “For our outpatient orthotic and prosthetic services, the care is also provided in the comfort of the new Dallas office. Custom products are done locally in our own lab, and modifications are done in our on-site lab to increase quality and decrease wait times.” Cook Children’s Home Health gives kids long-term care and helps them heal in a familiar setting. It is led by a clinical team with vast experience in pediatrics, including visiting nurses that are Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certified. Cook Children’s Home Health now serves patients in the following counties: • Bosque • Collin • Cooke • Dallas • Denton • Ellis • Erath • Grayson • Hill • Hood • Jack • Johnson • Kaufman • Montague • Navarro • Palo Pinto • Parker • Rockwall • Tarrant • Wise Services include: Marco, age 6 Fort Worth, Texas • Medical equipment – home respiratory care is provided by registered or certified pediatric respiratory therapists. Patients receive timely delivery of all supplies and equipment. Families are assisted by patient service representatives and respiratory therapists with maintenance and storage of home medical equipment and supplies. • Nursing – Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certified and specialized in hematology/oncology, gastroenterology, pulmonary, neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), infusion therapy and IV management. • Rehabilitation – expertise in caring for pediatric specific disease conditions, providing age-appropriate therapy and collaborating with families to develop the child’s rehabilitation treatment plan. The rehab team is able to meet a child’s needs for physical, occupational and speech therapy in the home environment. • Biopharmaceutical – pharmacists are trained and experienced in the use and management of biotech pharmaceuticals. They also provide patient educational tools to enhance quality of service. • Infusion – including intravenous medications, infusion devices and other medications requiring precise dosage and management. An infusion suite is available for patients who may not qualify for home visits or where a more controlled setting is required. • Orthotics and prosthetics – whether in our offices or in numerous clinical settings, our team provides top pediatric orthotic and prosthetic care. 10
Sports nutrition has become a science, with as much focus on how a team eats as the amount of time spent in the weight room. Cook Children’s places a similar focus on making sure patients and families receive healthy food that’s also tasty. The Camelot Court Room Service program was launched in August 2011. This patient-friendly program meets the nutritional needs of kids and lets them enjoy their meals at the times they choose. Patients get a menu from a nutrition associate when they are admitted. Their menu offers delicious meals based on their specific diet requirements. The program is extremely popular with kids in the medical center. They have more control of meal times and they get to choose meals based on how they are feeling. Overall, this helps them eat more because they order what they can tolerate and are hungry to eat. The meals are prepared individually for each order and if the patient needs any help with eating, someone will come and assist them. To place an order, the patient or a family member simply dials the room service telephone number and a nutrition associate personally delivers the meal within 45 minutes. The room service feature is another way Cook Children’s is able to get our team’s kids back in action! Kalil, age 8 Northwest PeeWee Football Association Team: Texans; Haslet, Texas 11 | Cook Children’s 2011 Annual Report
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