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Brightline Launches First Covid-19 Behavioral Health Indicator (COBI) to Help Parents Concerned About Children’s Mental Health

October 14, 2020

PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Brightline, the first family-focused behavioral health platform for children and families, announces the launch of a new public health initiative to help parents learn about potential behavioral health impacts of Covid-19 on children’s behavioral health. The Covid-19 Behavioral Health Indicator (“COBI”) will launch online and be available for free, nationwide, on October 13 via www.hellobrightline.com/cobi.

COBI is a 30-question survey that helps parents inform themselves about how their family is doing in four key areas that may be linked to children’s wellness, including pre-existing medical and behavioral health conditions, direct effects of Covid-19, psychological stress, and family resilience. COBI is intended to equip parents with information to facilitate a conversation with a health care provider.

“As a mom of three young kids, these past months there have been so many times I have wondered if my kids are weathering this

Children’s Center of Hamden’s Intensive Outpatient Helping Teens

October 14, 2020

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The Outpatient Clinic at The Children’s Center of Hamden provides behavioral health and substance use treatment to children and teens ages 3-18 years of age. Two Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP) for teens 12-18 years old meet for three hours in the late afternoon after school and enhance the outpatient treatment experience with group therapy sessions. The IOP has successfully helped youth who struggle with anxiety, depression, social concerns, bullying, trauma, grief, anger, problems in school and more. One of the IOPs is for youth whose primary need is a focus on substance use. In addition to the group sessions, youth receive individualized attention from their primary therapist, family therapy and have appointments with the psychiatrist when needed. The IOP provides supper, helps coordinate transportation and accepts most insurances. Renee Hausman, Admissions Director, welcomes youth and family members to call her at 203-248-2116 ext. 308. Renee asks a few questions

Hartford HealthCare and Connecticut Children’s broaden partnership extending pediatric care

October 12, 2020

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The top executives of Hartford HealthCare and Connecticut Children’s on Monday signed an agreement broadening a 25-year partnership to combine pediatric services with the hospital system’s extensive network across Connecticut.

“This is a continuation and expansion and formalization of an existing relationship,” James Shmerling, president of Connecticut Children’s, said at an announcement outside Hartford Hospital.

Jeffrey Flaks, president of Hartford HealthCare, promised investments and modernization of services at neonatal intensive care units as Connecticut Children’s services are moved into Hartford HealthCare facilities.

“We’re going to work perfect the hand-off when children become adolescents and adolescents become adults for their health care,” he said.

Hartford HealthCare includes two tertiary-level teaching hospitals, an acute-care community teaching hospital, an acute-care hospital and trauma center, three community hospitals, a behavioral health network and a multispecialty physician group.

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$100M in gifts from community support Primary Children’s Hospital expertise, expansion

October 10, 2020

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Intermountain Healthcare’s historic plan to build the nation’s model health system for children has received more than $100 million in gifts from community leaders so far, accelerating efforts to expand the clinical expertise of Primary Children’s Hospital.

Katy Welkie, RN, MBA, CEO of Primary Children’s Hospital and vice president of Intermountain Children’s Health, said in a prepared statement:

We are entering a new era in pediatric health that will shape the next century of care for children served by Intermountain and Primary Children’s Hospital. These generous gifts from the community are helping us embrace this challenge, forge ahead, and achieve our vision to build the nation’s model health system for children without delay.

In January, Intermountain Healthcare announced a $500 million promise — half of which would come from philanthropy — to create a national model for children’s health.

This vision has inspired financial gifts including a $50 million gift

Kristen Bell is ‘prioritizing’ her children’s mental health amid distance learning

October 9, 2020

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Kristen Bell is ‘prioritizing’ her children’s mental health amid distance learning

With children having spent more than eight months in quarantine, Kristen Bell has taken it upon herself to make sure her children’s mental health is not suffering during these challenging times.

With 40 years of expertise now behind her, Bell has been passing on her advice towards her young kids Delta and Lincoln.

During her interview with PEOPLE magazine, the Frozen actress was quoted saying, “I’m going to prioritize her mental health, just like I prioritize my mental health, and if she is too overwhelmed, I’m going to shut the computer and take a 5-minute break.”

Amid her struggles to maintain positivity in her house, Bell has even taken some pages from her partner Shepard’s book and believes, “‘One day or one year is not going to break anyone’.”

After all, “when we can all take off our student

Nationwide Children’s Hospital Named Winner of 2020 Hearst Health Prize

October 6, 2020

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$100,000 Prize Awarded to Healthy Neighborhoods Healthy Families for Outstanding Achievement in Population Health

Hearst Health, a division of Hearst, and Thomas Jefferson University’s College of Population Health today announced Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s Healthy Neighborhoods Healthy Families program as the winner of the 2020 Hearst Health Prize for outstanding achievement in population health. The program is recognized for its improvements in health outcomes for children and families impacted by neighborhood effect syndrome in the South Side community of Columbus, Ohio.

This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201006006029/en/

The $100,000 award was announced by Gregory Dorn, MD, MPH, president of Hearst Health, and David B. Nash, MD, MBA, dean emeritus of the Jefferson College of Population Health, during the 20^th annual Population Health Colloquium. This award marks the fifth consecutive year of the Hearst Health Prize and adds Nationwide Children’s Hospital to a distinguished list of

Lurie Children’s Hospital launches food delivery program

October 5, 2020

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Lurie Children’s Hospital has launched a home food delivery program for patients who might otherwise go hungry.

The hospital received a $150,000 grant from the Cigna Foundation to provide “reliable access to healthy food for over 100 families.”

The program expands on an earlier hospital’s initiative to address food insecurity; two years ago, the hospital opened Chicago’s first onsite food pantry in a pediatric clinic.

“Food insecurity is a significant barrier to children’s health,” said Dr. Adam Becker, executive director of childhood obesity prevention program Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children, was quoted as saying in a hospital news release. “We hope to reduce the burden on vulnerable families, especially those who are caring for children with medical complexity.”

Mary Kate Daly, vice president of Lurie Children’s Patrick M. Magoon Institute for Healthy Communities, said the grant will pay not only for food, but also for social workers and

Health Affairs’ October Issue: Children’s Health

October 5, 2020

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The October edition of Health Affairs is a theme issue on children’s health. As articles in the issue show, the US lags behind other developed countries in key indicators of child health and well-being. Studies in the issue provide a road map for future improvement.

The October issue was supported by Nemours, Blue Shield of California Foundation, Children’s Hospital Association, the Episcopal Health Foundation, and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.

DATAWATCH: One in ten North Carolina teenagers fill at least one opioid prescription a year.

According to government data, opioid exposures in childhood are responsible for the majority of drug-related pediatric fatalities and are potentially linked to opioid misuse in adulthood. To understand the extent of pediatric opioid use, Kelby Brown and coauthors from Duke University reviewed North Carolina Medicaid claims data from 2016 to 2018. They found that among children (ages 1–17), adolescents ages 15–17 were most often prescribed

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October 5, 2020

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The US lags behind other developed countries in key indicators of child health and well-being, including infant and child mortality, poverty, and obesity. A defining feature of children’s health in the US is tremendous disparity by race and ethnicity, undercutting the goal of providing all children with equal opportunities for success. This month’s Health Affairs explores children’s health and well-being and provides a road map for future improvement.

Road Map For Improvement

James Perrin and coauthors summarize and identify crosscutting themes in four recent reports from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on strengthening child and adolescent health and well-being. Focusing on poverty; mental, emotional, and behavioral health; adolescence; and young family health and education, “the reports make clear that many evidence-based solutions allowing changes to current trajectories and outcomes already exist.”

“When it comes to supporting the health of children and families, what Americans say is not

How parents shape their children’s mental health

October 4, 2020

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Most parents know that their behavior has an effect on their children’s mental health, now and possibly forever.As such, we strive to call upon our better angels, modeling equanimity and empathy as much as we can, with the small hope that these moments will outweigh the unhinged ones.There are times when this is easier, and times when this is harder. Right now, just in case anyone out there remains unclear, it’s much, much harder.With the pandemic, school closures, the fight against racial injustice, the climate crisis and political uncertainty, this year has made it difficult for anyone to reasonably hold it together. Now add to that list raising the future caretakers of this vulnerable world.The good news is that kids don’t need us to be pillars of strength amid the wreckage. Nor does a parent’s anxiety or depression mean the kid will inevitably experience anxiety or depression now, or in … Read More

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Brightline Launches First Covid-19 Behavioral Health Indicator (COBI) to Help Parents Concerned About Children’s Mental Health

Children’s Center of Hamden’s Intensive Outpatient Helping Teens

Hartford HealthCare and Connecticut Children’s broaden partnership extending pediatric care

$100M in gifts from community support Primary Children’s Hospital expertise, expansion

Kristen Bell is ‘prioritizing’ her children’s mental health amid distance learning

Nationwide Children’s Hospital Named Winner of 2020 Hearst Health Prize

Lurie Children’s Hospital launches food delivery program

Health Affairs’ October Issue: Children’s Health

DATAWATCH: One in ten North Carolina teenagers fill at least one opioid prescription a year.

Children’s Health | Health Affairs

Road Map For Improvement

How parents shape their children’s mental health