Blank Children’s Hospital is committed to family-centered healing, teaching and caring.
Blank Children's Hospital has been completely renovated and expanded to "fit" the unique healthcare needs of children…
- Medical equipment just the right size for kids…
- Décor that's designed to be soothing to children and families…
- An environment that embraces families as a critical part of their child's health, healing and recovery.
Blank Children's Hospital is designed to enable pediatric specialists to deliver 21st-century medicine, while providing compassionate care for both the child and family. Among the hospital's key features are:
- Private, spacious inpatient rooms, which comfortably accommodate overnight stays by a family member.
- The new Variety Club Intensive Care Nursery, which is the first Level III neonatal intensive care nursery anywhere to offer private rooms, enabling neonatal specialists to maximize newborns' growth and development potential while giving families the amenities necessary to stay and bond with their child.
- A new pediatric intensive care unit, which enables pediatric intensivists to provide the latest in pediatric critical care technology and treatment.
- Private conference rooms, where families can meet with staff and make important decisions.
- A kitchenette, where families can gather or celebrate special occasions.
- Comfortable lounges on every floor, where families can go to relax or just catch their breath.
- Play areas for patients and siblings on every floor.
Family Centered Care
At Blank Children's Hospital, families are an important part of a child's healing process. Families are actively involved in patient care. Blank Children's Hospital knows that when a child hurts, the whole family is affected. That is why Blank Children's Hospital truly embraces the family-centered care philosophy. Simply, family-centered care recognizes that families are the constant in children's lives. When the family is involved in providing care, their child may be less anxious, need less medication and ultimately recover faster. So Blank Children's Hospital has adopted a philosophy that encourages the family to participate in the care of the child.
From spending the night in their child's room to using the family kitchenette, the Blank Children's Hospital is chock full of amenities to make family involvement easy and comfortable.
Family-centered care helps ensure information is provided in ways the family can understand. Through that communication, we can build a relationship with respect for patient and families' traditions, beliefs and value systems and enable families to partner with the healthcare staff to make the best decisions for their child.
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http://www.familycenteredcare.org/hosp-forum-frame.html
