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Date: | Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:43:25 -0500 |
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Actually, at my hospital facility, every one of our babies has an
appointment scheduled with their outpatient pediatrician prior to
discharge. Their d/c record and any other pertinant information is faxed
to the pediatrician. The mother also has a paper in hand with the same
information. That is the responsibility of our pediatric hospitalists (24
hour in-house peds). If there are additional risk factors which require
other follow-up (like lactation problems, DCF, teen mmoms,substance abuse,
any other problem), those mother/baby dyads also have a referral to the
VNA (which often is me if it goes to my agency).
If you check out the AAP guidelines, I think you will find that more
follow-up is happening much sooner than used to be.
I can only speak for this general central Connecticut area, but through my
ou-patient VNA work, I often get referrals for well mother/baby dyads, as
well as for those with difficulties. It appears that the majority of
public and private insurances pay for well baby homecare follow-up. I
visit babies from all of the area hospitals (big and little).
Betsy Riedel RNC, IBCLC
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