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February 21, 2010 | Story
Glenn Flores discovers that parent mentors help reduce wheezing, asthma complications and emergency department visits in African-American and Latino children.
November 18, 2009 | Program Result
Caleb Mahan was 6 years old when he had his first asthma attack. It came without warning and was severe.
November 18, 2009 | Program Result
Fransheska and younger sister, Yolamar, members of an immigrant Puerto Rican family living in Rochester, N.Y., have had asthma since early childhood.
December 1, 2006 | Program Result
Baylor College of Medicine collected information on emergency department pediatric asthma visits and studied the impact of an intervention to educate ED pediatric asthma patients and parents in managing the disease.
December 1, 2006 | Program Result
Emergency Department Allies brought together Children's Hospital and Health System and five collaborating hospitals to develop a tracking system to monitor emergency department pediatric asthma care.
December 1, 2006 | Program Result
Children's National Medical Center implemented an emergency department-based demonstration project to improve the care of children with asthma. The main focus was developing a clinic for repeat patients and their parents.
September 1, 2000 | Program Result
Sentara Health System established a service credit banking program that recruited volunteers to provide supportive community-based services for enrollees of both its Medicare managed care plan and a project aimed at nursing-home-eligible patients.
June 4, 2006 | Program Result
Improving Asthma Care for Children was a national program of RWJF to test new approaches to managing asthma in children receiving care through Medicaid managed care - sometimes paid for through the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
September 1, 2006 | Toolkit
Related websites Urgent Matters Web site The hospital created a multidisciplinary team to develop an improved protocol for asthma patients in the emergency department (ED). The result was the addition of a dedicated respiratory therapist in the ED f ...
December 1, 2006 | Program Result
The Managing Pediatric Asthma: Emergency Department Demonstration Program developed and tested emergency department-based systems to improve pediatric asthma care.