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Northridge Hospital Gives Parents Another Option
When Debbie Koslowsky's 6 year old son Alex was too sick to go to school, she would bring him to work to lie on the floor of her office at the West Valley YMCA in Reseda, or she would stay home with him.
Since Northridge Hospital Medical Center opened its Kids Care program for mildly sick children, she has another option, which she has used twice in the past six weeks, when Alex had two cases of strep throat.
"The last time Alex was there, I was wondering if he could also have an ear infection. The doctor checked Alex at no charge, which not only saved me the trouble and the $44 cost of going to the pediatrician after work, but I knew that if he had had a problem, I would have known about it early in the day," said Koslowsky, 38, a physical education director.
The Northridge Kids Care program, open since November, is set up to care for mildly sick children, from 6 weeks to 15 years old, 24 hours a day, at a cost of $3.25 per hour, or $2.75 for hospital employees.
The program, which operates as an outpatient service under Northridge's hospital license, "does not accept children for Kids Care who have chicken pox, lice, measles or high temperatures that are not responding to Tylenol," said Cindy Albright, a registered nurse and coordinator for Kids Care. Parents do not have to call ahead to say they are bringing a child in, but it is encouraged, and pre registration forms that include the child's medical history help speed the 10 minute registration process.
One hospital staff nursing assistant is assigned to care for every four children. Registered nurses oversee the care and give the necessary Hermes bag copy medications, either over the counter drugs or medications already prescribed for the child. Physicians from the hospital's UCLA Family Residency Program examine the children each morning and notify parents if they find medical problems that they think need more evaluation.
The Kids Care facilities, in the pediatric wing on the fifth floor of the hospital, are divided into bag Hermes fake a quiet room, a crafts room and a kitchen. Most children become involved in crafts, directed by a part time child activities coordinator, or take the video route, playing an ever popular Nintendo game or watching TV and videotapes. Some bring their own treasured blankets, backpacks, books, dolls or other toys.
Carrie Reitz, 12, was recently at Kids Care after a night of high fever and an upset stomach. Although Carrie was feeling better, her mother hesitated to let her go to school. The day she was at Kids Care, she played with the other three children there, who were from 1 to 8 years old.
Was it scary to come to a hospital for the day? "No," she said. "I wasn't real sure when I came in. There's a lot of things to do. You can read books, help the little kids color. . . . It's better than home."
Carrie's mother, Beverly, is a teacher at First Lutheran Pre School across the street from the hospital. "Parents who work tend to bring their children to the nursery school even if the children are not 100%," she said. She thinks that the hospital's program provides the added care and reassurance parents need to leave their children to go to work.
Started for Employees
According to Don Adams, administrator of Northridge Hospital, the Kids Care program was started largely to attract and fake Hermes Kelly handbag retain hospital employees. Northridge Hospital and Valley Hospital Medical Center in Van Nuys, both owned by Hospital Corp. of America, employ a total of 1,600 people, Adams said. The center cares for an average of four or five children a day.
Two hermes replica bag Los Angeles hospitals California Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital have recently closed their sick child care programs. Another, at Torrance Memorial Medical Center, the model for Northridge's program, is going strong, caring for an average of five to 18 children a day.
Patsy Lane, child care coordinator for the city of Los Angeles, said closure of these programs may be because "it's hard for people to bring an ill child to a place that's relatively unfamiliar. It's a tough concept for parents to bring their children for day care to a health care facility."
Lane said the most successful sick child care programs have been in suburban areas, geographically and administratively connected to the sick child's regular day care or nursery school program. On a sick day, the child doesn't go to an entirely different place, just to a different room or wing at the same school. But she thinks that the license requirements for such programs mildly ill day care children are kept separate from hospital patients, and employees who care for the day care children do not also care for hospitalized children minimize the risks.
When Debbie Koslowsky's 6 year old son Alex was too sick to go to school, she would bring him to work to lie on the floor of her office at the West Valley YMCA in Reseda, or she would stay home with him.
Since Northridge Hospital Medical Center opened its Kids Care program for mildly sick children, she has another option, which she has used twice in the past six weeks, when Alex had two cases of strep throat.
"The last time Alex was there, I was wondering if he could also have an ear infection. The doctor checked Alex at no charge, which not only saved me the trouble and the $44 cost of going to the pediatrician after work, but I knew that if he had had a problem, I would have known about it early in the day," said Koslowsky, 38, a physical education director.
The Northridge Kids Care program, open since November, is set up to care for mildly sick children, from 6 weeks to 15 years old, 24 hours a day, at a cost of $3.25 per hour, or $2.75 for hospital employees.
The program, which operates as an outpatient service under Northridge's hospital license, "does not accept children for Kids Care who have chicken pox, lice, measles or high temperatures that are not responding to Tylenol," said Cindy Albright, a registered nurse and coordinator for Kids Care. Parents do not have to call ahead to say they are bringing a child in, but it is encouraged, and pre registration forms that include the child's medical history help speed the 10 minute registration process.
One hospital staff nursing assistant is assigned to care for every four children. Registered nurses oversee the care and give the necessary Hermes bag copy medications, either over the counter drugs or medications already prescribed for the child. Physicians from the hospital's UCLA Family Residency Program examine the children each morning and notify parents if they find medical problems that they think need more evaluation.
The Kids Care facilities, in the pediatric wing on the fifth floor of the hospital, are divided into bag Hermes fake a quiet room, a crafts room and a kitchen. Most children become involved in crafts, directed by a part time child activities coordinator, or take the video route, playing an ever popular Nintendo game or watching TV and videotapes. Some bring their own treasured blankets, backpacks, books, dolls or other toys.
Carrie Reitz, 12, was recently at Kids Care after a night of high fever and an upset stomach. Although Carrie was feeling better, her mother hesitated to let her go to school. The day she was at Kids Care, she played with the other three children there, who were from 1 to 8 years old.
Was it scary to come to a hospital for the day? "No," she said. "I wasn't real sure when I came in. There's a lot of things to do. You can read books, help the little kids color. . . . It's better than home."
Carrie's mother, Beverly, is a teacher at First Lutheran Pre School across the street from the hospital. "Parents who work tend to bring their children to the nursery school even if the children are not 100%," she said. She thinks that the hospital's program provides the added care and reassurance parents need to leave their children to go to work.
Started for Employees
According to Don Adams, administrator of Northridge Hospital, the Kids Care program was started largely to attract and fake Hermes Kelly handbag retain hospital employees. Northridge Hospital and Valley Hospital Medical Center in Van Nuys, both owned by Hospital Corp. of America, employ a total of 1,600 people, Adams said. The center cares for an average of four or five children a day.
Two hermes replica bag Los Angeles hospitals California Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital have recently closed their sick child care programs. Another, at Torrance Memorial Medical Center, the model for Northridge's program, is going strong, caring for an average of five to 18 children a day.
Patsy Lane, child care coordinator for the city of Los Angeles, said closure of these programs may be because "it's hard for people to bring an ill child to a place that's relatively unfamiliar. It's a tough concept for parents to bring their children for day care to a health care facility."
Lane said the most successful sick child care programs have been in suburban areas, geographically and administratively connected to the sick child's regular day care or nursery school program. On a sick day, the child doesn't go to an entirely different place, just to a different room or wing at the same school. But she thinks that the license requirements for such programs mildly ill day care children are kept separate from hospital patients, and employees who care for the day care children do not also care for hospitalized children minimize the risks.
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