Perinatal/Pediatric Outreach Program
The Perinatal/Neonatal/Pediatric Outreach Program functions as a liaison/support service between the Perinatal/Neonatal/Pediatric in-house service at UCSF Children’s Hospital and seven referral hospitals in Northern California.
The program goal is to enhance the quality & continuity of care between community hospitals and UCSF for the care of high-risk mothers and newborns, and the pediatric population.
The program provides referral hospitals physicians, nurses, social workers and respiratory therapist with 24 hour clinical consultation, resource/educational materials, physician clinical case conferences (M&M’s), physician lectures, and continuing education classes for nurses, social workers and respiratory therapist.
The program also provides clinical perceptions in perinatal, neonatal, and pediatric units at UCSF. Services are provided under a formal contractual affiliation in accordance with Title 22 and CCs requirements.
Patients serves are multi ethnic high-risk mothers of reproductive age, critically ill neonates and pediatric patients.
The Perinatal/Pediatric Outreach Program provides to community hospital:
- Clinical, Administrative, and educational consultation
- Consultation for program development and physical plant enhancement
- Assistance/participation with DHS & CCS applications/site visits for program licensure/certification
- 150 educational topics are offered for nursing/RT/social work presentations as part of the continuing education program component
- Over 150 perinatal/neonatal/pediatric policies, procedures & protocols are provided
- Additional resources information / materials are provided including newsletters CBO’s, resource binders, patient information booklets (in several languages) etc.
- Community physicians, nurses and RT’s participate in customized perinatal/neonatal/pediatric preceptorships at UCSF including >1000 preceptorships, which are conducted in the clinical units at UCSF.
Perinatal/pediatric outreach staff assists hospitals to identify educations needs and jointly develop an educational plan for physicians, nurses, social workers and respiratory therapists on an annual basis. In addition to the formal continuing education programs, clinical case conferences are offered and conducted on a regular basis at each hospital providing clinicians with a review process and up-to-date clinical information that supports and enhances their clinical patient care. Physicians lectures series are offered to provide formal didactic education. Nursing education programs are conducted in, 4, and 6 hour long didactic and /or workshop sessions to assist nurses in developing and enhancing clinical knowledge & skills.