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FY 2005 Initiatives for Improving Community Access to Care |
 In fiscal year 2005, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital’s Community Benefits function made powerful improvements to increase opportunities for more patients from all communities to receive the same high standard of health care.
Commitment to Medi-Cal and Other Government Programs
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In 2005 alone, the hospital provided $77,477,000 in unreimbursed care to Medi-Cal beneficiaries. This is a more than a 50 percent increase from FY 2004.
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Children’s Health Insurance Commitment
- Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital served 13,359 patients covered by Medi-Cal, and 17,613 patients whose care was paid for by the California Health and Disability Prevention program (CHDP), California Children’s Service (CCS), Healthy Families and Healthy Kids, and other programs.
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Ravenswood Family Health Center Partnership
In FY 2005, Packard Children’s expanded its involvement with Ravenswood Family Health Center through:
- Providing a $588,700 grant over three years to fund an additional full-time pediatrician and a pediatric social worker. These “reinforcements” come just in time for the clinic, as the pediatric census continues to grow with more than 43 percent of the clinics patients under the age of 12. In just under 12 months, the pediatric social worker handled 350 cases, an average of 8-10 visits per day.
- Providing, through a Community Access Program grant from San Mateo County, the Packard Pediatric Weight Control Program to three groups of 10-12 children and parents at Ravenswood Family Health Center
- Serving as part of the leadership team for Get Fit East Palo Alto, a community campaign to address the alarming incidence of overweight, obesity and poor fitness in East Palo Alto
- Providing medical-legal advocacy services through the Family Advocacy Program, a collaborative program with the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County
- Transferring the Packard Children’s pediatric mobile van program to RFHC through the gift of a medical van and an agreement to provide three years of partial funding to support pediatric services on the van. The mobile program will also serve homeless and uninsured adults. The RFHC Mobile program began in March 2006.
- Learn more about the Ravenswood Family Health Center Partnership
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Mobile Adolescent Health Services (Teen Van)
- 383 individual teens received comprehensive care during 1,027 medical visits, 507 social worker visits and 252 dietitian visits at six locations in San Mateo, Santa Clara and San Francisco counties.
- Social workers provided group classes on topics such as violence and dating, anxiety and relaxation, communication in relationships, eating disorders, body image, drug and alcohol education, and how to use the health services provided by the Teen Van. The social worker also provided one-to-one, short-term counseling.
- The dietitian offered cooking classes, individual nutrition counseling, field trips to grocery stores, and healthy snacks.
- The social worker and dietitian used art expression and theater projects to provide a forum for relationship building with the teens and as group facilitation activities to enhance communication.
- The rate of return patients is 87 percent with a steady influx of new patients, a strong measure of success in a population that is traditionally hard-to-reach and slow-to-trust.
- Learn more about the Teen Health Van
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Lucile Packard Children's Hospital is located in Palo Alto, adjacent to Stanford University Hospital, approximately 20 miles north of San Jose, CA and 40 miles south of San Francisco.
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
725 Welch Road
Palo Alto, California 94304
(650) 497-8000
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