Pediatric/Adolescent Medicine

St. Mary's Healthcare System for Children provides highly specialized medical and rehabilitative care for children and adolescents who are challenged by a wide variety of complex medical conditions. Sophisticated treatment modalities that address all aspects of the physical healing process are enhanced by psychological and developmental assessment and comprehensive multidisciplinary treatment coordination. This child/family centered spectrum of care is dedicated to the unique needs of children and adolescents. All services focus on positive emotional, cognitive, environmental, social, and family outcomes that emphasize individual abilities and enhance potential for growth.

Our Patients...
The children and adolescents for whom we provide comprehensive inpatient care at our Queens and Westchester facilities have complex healthcare needs that require medical, rehabilitative, psychological, and developmental interventions. Ranging in age from birth through eighteen, our patients have medical conditions that include, but are not limited to:

		post-transplant care			post-surgical care
		traumatic brain injury			medical complications of morbid obesity
		coma recovery			sickle cell disease
		spina bifida			nutritional disorders
		inflammatory bowel disease			neurological, respiratory, and orthopedic disorders
		wound care
		asthma			post-acute burns
		diabetes

Our Services...
Our coordinated, comprehensive service spectrum is a continuum of primary, acute, and chronic care offered in our own settings and through partnership with other healthcare providers. On-site services for children and adolescents include:

		comprehensive pediatric/adolescent medical care			occupational therapy
					speech and language therapy
		subspecialty medical care as appropriate			audiological evaluation
		specialized skilled nursing			social work
		peritoneal dialysis			clinical case management
		chemotherapy management			on-site public school at our Bayside facility
		total parenteral nutrition (TPN)			coordination with the Ossining public schools at our Westchester facility
		nutritional therapy
		psychiatric services			early education programs
		neuropsychology			therapeutic recreation
		physical therapy

Our Programs...

All programs and services are specifically designed to integrate the psychological, cognitive, and developmental needs of children and adolescents with the treatment of their medical conditions. These factors can have a significant effect on the illness as well as on the patient's reaction to the illness, and our treatment approach recognizes the importance of both in the total healing process. This care coordination extends beyond our own treatment settings to include the total range of services required by the individual--primary care, acute care, and specialty care. Through our comprehensive system, the needs of the patient and the family are individually evaluated, addressed, and monitored to achieve optimal outcomes.

St. Mary's coordination of services and programs ensures that the treatment plan for each child is implemented in the most appropriate and least restrictive setting. We are dedicated to returning the child to home and community as quickly as possible. When inpatient care is no longer required, case managers work with the family and our healthcare partners to provide referral and linkage to outpatient, ancillary, home care, and medical day care services. Our goal is to provide continuing care while the child or adolescent benefits from the home and community environment.