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Packard Children鈥檚 and California Pacific Medical Center form Collaborative Relationship

Physicians working side-by-side at CPMC

For Release: January 11, 2012

Stanford and San Francisco, CA听鈥 Lucile Packard Children鈥檚 Hospital Stanford and California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC), part of the Sutter Health network, today announced the formation of a collaborative relationship that will substantially increase Northern California children鈥檚 access to highly specialized inpatient hospital care.

With an official launch date of January 9, pediatric specialty physicians from Packard Children鈥檚 and CPMC will work side by side at the inpatient units at CPMC鈥檚 California Campus. The two organizations have created an entity that will provide day-to-day oversight and support for the collaborative effort. Inpatient units will remain under CPMC鈥檚 license and CPMC will have the overall responsibility for patient care. Some pediatric specialists from Packard Children鈥檚 have already begun to provide on-call specialty coverage at CPMC 鈥 an essential component of a comprehensive pediatric specialty hospital program 鈥 and more specialties are now being phased in over time. Also, as part of the mutual commitment to making care accessible to San Francisco and North Bay families, Packard Children鈥檚 physicians will hold outpatient clinics in San Francisco so that they can follow patients who have been hospitalized at CPMC.

鈥淎s a result of this new relationship, children in San Francisco and the North Bay will have convenient access to more highly specialized inpatient care than ever before,鈥 reported Warren Browner, MD, MPH, CEO of CPMC. 鈥淐ollaborating with Lucile Packard Children鈥檚 Hospital and its physicians is ideal for us,鈥 continued Browner. 鈥淣ot only do Packard Children鈥檚 physicians have a national reputation for providing the highest quality of care, but also their physicians are highly skilled in caring for some of the most complex pediatric cases. This will further augment the expert, personalized care already provided at CPMC.鈥

鈥淥ur physicians and staff are excited to join with CPMC physicians in providing world-class care to Bay Area families,鈥 said Christopher G. Dawes, president and CEO of Packard Children鈥檚. 鈥淐PMC is the perfect organization for us to collaborate with 鈥 it has a long-standing and superb reputation in the community and with physicians.鈥 Kenneth Cox, MD, chief medical officer at Packard Children鈥檚, saluted the new relationship and its impact. 鈥淭his is an exciting new venture for both CPMC and Packard,鈥 said Cox, who is also senior associate dean for pediatric and obstetric clinical affairs and professor of pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine. 鈥淭here will be tremendous benefits for children who require the hospitals鈥 superior care.鈥

Lorry Frankel, MD, chair of CPMC鈥檚 Pediatric Division and a pediatric intensive care specialist who came to CPMC in 2010 following 27 years on the staff of Stanford and Packard Children鈥檚, indicated that this collaboration will allow both healthcare organizations to succeed in an extremely challenging pediatric care environment. 鈥淭his collaborative comes at an opportune time,鈥 continued Frankel. 鈥淎cross the country, inpatient care programs are struggling; children鈥檚 hospitals are consolidating, pediatric inpatient care volumes are declining, and recruitment of pediatric specialists is becoming increasingly challenging.鈥

鈥淲ith this new relationship, physicians associated with two superb providers of pediatric care can continue to do what they do best 鈥 and, in fact, create a situation where we are better together,鈥 explained Frankel. Frankel explained that CPMC and Packard Children鈥檚 have informally collaborated on complex pediatric cases for several years. 鈥淭he informal relationship between the two organizations has been extremely successful to date,鈥 reported Frankel. 鈥淣ow, CPMC will have enhanced ability to provide care to high-acuity, complex pediatric cases.鈥

Authors

CPMC:
Kevin McCormack
(415) 600-7484

LPCH:
Robert Dicks
(650) 497-8364

About California Pacific Medical Center

At San Francisco鈥檚 California Pacific Medical Center we deliver personal, hands-on care to every single patient, every single day. As one of California鈥檚 largest private, community-based, not-for-profit medical centers, we research the most up-to-date treatments, hire the most qualified individuals, and practice the most modern, innovative medicine available. We deliver the highest-quality expert care with kindness and compassion in acute, post-acute and outpatient services, as well as preventive and complementary medicine. We also provide disease counseling, family support and wellness treatments.

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麻豆果冻传媒 Children鈥檚 Health, with听Lucile Packard Children鈥檚 Hospital Stanford听at its center, is the Bay Area鈥檚 largest health care system exclusively dedicated to children and expectant mothers. Our network of care includes more than 65听locations听across Northern California and more than 85 locations in the U.S. Western region.听Along with Stanford Health Care and the Stanford School of Medicine, we are part of听, an ecosystem harnessing the potential of biomedicine through collaborative research, education, and clinical care to improve health outcomes around the world. We are a nonprofit organization committed to supporting the community through meaningful outreach programs and services and providing necessary medical care to families, regardless of their ability to pay. Discover more at听stanfordchildrens.org.