Mission & Vision
To build, enhance, link and sustain an integrated system among those with vested interest in babies and young children with special health care and developmental needs so that they and their families thrive.
Definitions of babies and young children with special health care needs:
Neonates with special health care needs: An infant diagnosed at birth with a medical condition that requires supplemental technology or medication for survival past one month of age, hospitalization for more than three weeks after birth, and/or has early regulation, feeding, state or motor concerns that require supportive and/or therapeutic intervention. In addition, it can be anticipated that they will need more than the typical clinic visits for health concerns during the first six months after birth, and/or their family will need supplemental professional assistance to manage daily care.
Infants and toddlers with special health care needs: An infant or toddler with special health care needs is one who, during the first three years after birth, requires technologic, pharmacologic or therapeutic intervention above that of a typically growing child to obtain and/or maintain physiologic or neurobehavioral stability, who require more than the typical clinic visits during any given year, and/or whose family needs supplemental professional assistance to manage daily care.
Infants and Toddlers with Special Health Care Needs in Colorado
J Browne, Ph.D., C.N.S. and B Deloian, Ph.D., R.N., C.P.N.P
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