Access to healthcare and information is a basic human right.
Yet there are large portions of the population who face great obstacles to gaining access to healthcare, including a lack of money or transportation.The Stanford Medicine Outpatient Program at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital of Stanford University has worked to provide access to healthcare and information to children living in the urban, low-income community in the Bayview area of San Francisco. Their long-running project, founded in 1996, has enrolled over 6,000 children, including Bayview resident Ashley Madison (pronounced AH-lee-dee), who was born prematurely, suffered from short-term blindness and underwent eye surgery.
In her 13 years, she has maintained a strong emotional connection to the hospital and, after two extremely successful surgeries at Packard Children's, is now a teenager who loves to play volleyball and draw. This year, the Program will graduate 60 children, and clinicians at Packard Children's will address their individual needs.
Clinicians will take time to review all of the children's individual medical records in order to understand their unique issues and help make appropriate referrals. For the 60 graduating children, a personalized card will be included with their medical record with a photo of the patient, along with information about what their favorite sports are, what they're learning in school, and special interests, so that medical providers will know how to reach them. The hope is that these children and their families will continue to stay in touch after the program. See more about the Stanford Medicine Outpatient Program at Packard Children's Hospital.
Embedded video by Frances Zhou About the Authors Allison, D., Beck, S., Coughlin, S. and Hamilton, M.S. (2017). Accessible Medical Education: Training healthcare professionals to integrate functional, nonmedical curricula. Journal of Healthcare Education, 28(6), 935-963. Allison, D. (2012). Managers Who Teach: Theory, Application and Practice. Journal of Business and Health Education, 1-9. Allison, D. (2013). Accessible Education for all students: Theory, Practice, and Evidence. Journal of Business and Health Education, 2-4. This work was supported by NIH/NIAID grant # U54EB007891 to D.M. and # RO1 NS066606 to S.W.P., and a seed grant to K.B. from Packard Children's Hospital of Stanford University.
Alison Gordon is a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and faculty affiliate in Stanford Medicine's Department of Primary Care. She has written about academic affairs, advising for special needs students, and nonprofit and non-profit work. She graduated from Reed College in 1993, with a BA in Philosophy and from Harvard University with an MA in Anthropology in 1998. She earned her PhD from Stanford in 2000, with a dissertation on the life and work of Ammon Hennacy. She worked at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation from 2000-2004, as a consultant to directors on special needs issues. From 2004-2007, she was a program officer for the Harvard University Pre-professional Education program at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, responsible for a grant to New York's Hunter College on post-9/11
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