SERVICES WE PROVIDE

The amendment of California State Senate Bill 126 recognizes medically fragile children and their need for pediatric daycare.
 
Children with medically fragile conditions suffer from the absence of appropriate day health care services rendered by qualified providers to enhance their physical and developmental potential.
 
As a result of this bill, eligible children now receive every opportunity to grow and develop; to gain self-help, social and independent-living skills; and to receive necessary medical interventions in the enriching, stimulating environment of a qualified pediatric day health and respite care facility.
 
Pediatric day health care is an effective way to provide a community-based non-institutional resource for families. It promotes child health, development and well-being; eliminates the isolation of the child inherent in home health care; preserves family unity; and provides an opportunity for parents to continue or return to employment

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ELIGIBILITY 

• A child served in a pediatric health services facility shall meet any of the following criteria:
   
  ·  Be technology dependent, requiring life-sustaining equipment or interventions, such as tracheostomy, ventilator assistance, central venous access line, hyperalimentation, gastrostomy tube, or nasogastric tube for feedings.
   
  ·  Be medically fragile requiring ongoing treatment administered by a licensed registered professional nurse (RN) or licensed practical nurse (LPN), such as nebulizer treatments, administration of oxygen, apnea/cardiac monitoring, intermittent urinary catheterization.
   
   
• Children who attend must require ongoing monitoring and assessment by an RN because of such care needs as seizure disorders, cardiac conditions, diabetes, burn care, etc.