Hospital-to-Home
Compassionate Care for New Beginnings
Guiding Families from Hospital to Home
Hospital-to-Home supports families and their babies aged birth to 12 months in the critical time when babies transition home from a hospital stay. The program is designed to support positive social-emotional, developmental, and medical outcomes for babies.
Services include:
- Coordination of community resources
- Ongoing monitoring of developmental milestones
- Full development evaluation
- Feeding evaluation
- Communication between service providers
Supporting Families, One Step at a Time
Collaborative Care for Families
Hospital-to-Home is a program where Kadlec Regional Medical Center teams up with the Educational Service District 123 and the Children’s Developmental Center to ease the transitions for families in the NICU in receiving positive social-emotional, developmental, and medical outcomes for babies. This brings together doctors, nurses, state agencies, medical providers, and community partners to work side-by-side to support families in need.
Together, we’re creating a network of care that surrounds our most vulnerable community members with the help they deserve. Families may be able to get support from:
- Speech-Language Pathologists
- Vision & hearing specialists
- Developmental specialists
- Family resources coordinators
- Feeding therapists
- Occupational therapists
- Physical therapists
What Families Can Expect
Family-Focused Care
Families can expect that while they’re in the hospital, the care team will share information about services available for the child after you leave.
The care team will make a referral to the early support program.
A family resource coordinator (FRC) will meet with you to learn about your family’s priorities and what coming home from the hospital will look like. Services needed to meet the baby’s developmental needs will also be discussed.
The FRC will bring together a team, including the family, to work together to create an Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP), outlining the goals and services your baby will receive, to be in place before you leave the hospital.
Services begin as soon as the family and baby are home and ready.
Contact Your Referral Coordinator for More Information
Brittany Detloff
info@childrensdc.org
(509) 735-1062 ext. 147
Pasco, Kennewick, Finley, Paterson
Jaenemy Luengas
b3info@esd123.org
(509) 412-4234
Richland, Prosser, Ki-Be, Walla Walla County
