Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian
Bridging the Gap Between the Care for Children Given at PEDs and EDs in Community Hospitals
Aimed at helping children cared for in community emergency departments that lack pediatric emergency expertise, this program will provide general emergency medicine physicians with the training necessary to bridge the gap between the care given for babies and children at pediatric emergency departments (PEDs) and general emergency departments (EDs). Specifically, R Baby Foundation will fund the establishment of a pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) phone consultation service, staffed 24/7 by PEM specialists.
FIRST YEAR ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Columbia University, working with Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian, set up an initial platform using multi-modal educational method to improve physician knowledge targeted to reach Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physicians, initially at Columbia, but soon spreading out into the entire NYC base of practitioners, with a national program ultimately contemplated. Their achievements included establishing an online case repository with fifty cases including important clinical variants, Continuing Medical Education workshops, a telephone support service for discussions of actual, live cases, and an online reference website including treatment guidelines and descriptions of evidence-based data supporting the guidelines. Virtual experts were also made available as an enhancement to this online, “digital” and ongoing educational and informational platform.
