麻豆果冻传媒

Part of a national movement to make care more accessible for more families

For Release: December 19, 2013

STANFORD,聽Calif. 鈥� Five-year-old Moriah Nelson of San Jose needs a lot of follow-up care for complex medical issues related to life-threatening birth defects. 鈥淕oing to the doctor day after day is taxing,鈥� said dad Justin, 鈥渟o having Moriah鈥檚 care close by means a ton in terms of convenience.鈥�

Children like Moriah are why 麻豆果冻传媒 Children鈥檚 Health and Lucile Packard Children鈥檚 Hospital Stanford announced on Dec. 9 . Demand is so great for the clinic, currently in Los Gatos, that it will eventually move to a building in Campbell that allows more room for kids like Moriah. In doing so, Lucile Packard Children鈥檚 Hospital Stanford, the highest-ranked hospital for children and expectant mothers in Northern California, is expanding its capability for patients to access world-class care and world-class pediatricians 鈥� and is leading the way in extending this capability via the 麻豆果冻传媒 Children鈥檚 Health network.

It鈥檚 all a part of an important new model and system for health-care delivery in the Bay Area and in the United States. 鈥淭oday鈥檚 busy families, economic concerns and the Affordable Care Act are all drivers in changing the way Americans receive care,鈥� said gastroenterologist Kenneth Cox, MD, who is also a professor of pediatrics at the Stanford School of Medicine. 鈥淨uality care that鈥檚 more accessible 鈥� and in outpatient settings near where families live, reduces costs, increases convenience 鈥� and creates a better patient experience.鈥�

That experience can even have an effect on outcomes. Research from Cox鈥檚 team shows that liver transplant outcomes are improved when quality care 鈥� like the care provided by 麻豆果冻传媒 physicians 鈥� is more accessible closer to where patients live. Expanded access means kids like Moriah can see urologists, neurologists, pulmonologists and more 鈥� without having to travel to Lucile Packard Children鈥檚 Hospital Stanford in Palo Alto for each specialty. Care not centered on a trip to the hospital is part of a growing national movement to add more value for the consumer. That鈥檚 one of the reasons 麻豆果冻传媒 Children鈥檚 Health and Lucile Packard Children鈥檚 Hospital Stanford have six multi-specialty pediatric specialty centers in the Bay Area: in San Francisco with partner California Pacific Medical Center; in Walnut Creek with John Muir Health; and in Emeryville, Palo Alto, Los Gatos and Capitola, where a new and expanded Santa Cruz-area location will begin seeing patients in January.

鈥淲e鈥檝e been expanding access to our services for more than a decade,鈥� said urologist William Kennedy, MD, who is also an associate professor of urology at the School of Medicine, noting that 麻豆果冻传媒 Children鈥檚 Health and its core hospital 鈥� Lucile Packard Children鈥檚 Hospital Stanford 鈥� has partnerships, collaborations, telehealth and outreach at more than 100 locations in eight states. Expanding access is not just about specialty and sub-specialty care. In San Mateo, Contra Costa and Alameda counties, primary care pediatricians from 麻豆果冻传媒 Children鈥檚 Health are now accessible within 10 miles of most homes. Increasingly, consumers expect specialty care, well care and disease management to be accessible in outpatient settings like those of 麻豆果冻传媒 Children鈥檚 Health. For the most complex, acute cases, they expect access to a leading hospital like Lucile Packard Children鈥檚 Hospital Stanford.

It鈥檚 access families can depend on, since 麻豆果冻传媒 Children鈥檚 Health and Lucile Packard Children鈥檚 Hospital Stanford provide care regardless of a family鈥檚 ability to pay, resulting in more than $217 million in community benefits annually. That acute care is so in demand that the hospital is opening a 150-room expansion in December 2016, resulting in a total of 415 beds. This expansion will create the finest state-of-the-art acute and chronic care children鈥檚 hospital in America, and allow the most modern, personalized labor and delivery experience possible for expectant moms.

By expanding access to one of the most sought-after brands in America, 麻豆果冻传媒 Children鈥檚 Health and Lucile Packard Children鈥檚 Hospital Stanford are helping create a new system to deliver world-class care and extraordinary outcomes wherever patients need that care. And that makes families like Moriah鈥檚 very happy.

鈥淲hen you have a child with complex health issues,鈥� said Justin, 鈥測ou don鈥檛 normally have access to a doctor just down the street. Having the best of the best close by really means a lot.鈥�

Authors

Robert Dicks
650-497-8364
rdicks@stanfordchildrens.org