Caring for Kids – Maternal Child Health Program Brockton VNA

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Narrative

A multi-disciplinary approach to providing medical services under physician order. Client must need skilled care. Referrals are accepted from pediatricians. Also, provides service to high risk families and children at risk, and to pregnant and post-partum women. End of life care at home. Offers Caring For Kids Program (children with catastrophic illness), Lead Toxicity Counseling, Home Phototherapy, and SIDS counseling.

Helping families is nothing new for the Brockton Visiting Nurse Association.  Neither is focusing care on those that need it most, like new mothers and babies.  Brockton VNA staff work closely with area obstetricians and pediatricians as well as hospitals.  Maternal child health nurses and rehabilitative therapists offer services to the newborn, mother and pediatric population.  Brockton VNA’s Maternal Child Health Program provides a myriad of services for infants, toddlers, school-age children and young adults as well as maternity services.  Services include:  pediatric nursing, wound care, pediatric rehabilitation, ante partum and postpartum care, asthma and diabetic care and education, premature infant care, Wallaby treatments for newborns, SIDS counseling, developmental evaluation and more.

Service Types

• Adult Day Health
• Case Management
• Day Activity
• Dentist
• Domestic Violence Counseling
• Door to Door-Lift
• Education Law
• Family Rights And Guardianship
• Hospice
• Inpatient
• Nursing
• Nutrition
• Occupational Therapy
• Physical Therapy
• Rehabilitation
• Skills Training
• Speech Therapy

Program Type

• Communication
• Counseling

Populations Served

• All Disabilities
• Alzheimer's Disease
• Amputations
• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
• Aphasia
• Arthritis
• Ataxia
• Behavior Disorder
• Blind
• Blood disorders
• Bone Disorders
• Burns
• Cancer
• Cerebral Palsy
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Chronic Health Impairment
• Deaf
• Diabetes
• Digestive Disorders
• Elderly Person with disabilities
• Hard of Hearing
• Heart Disorder
• Kidney Disease
• Leukemia
• Lupus Erythematous
• Lyme Disease
• Mental Illness
• Multiple Disability
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Muscular Dystrophy
• Narcolepsy
• Neurofibromatosis
• Nonverbal Communication
• Pain
• Parkinson's Disease
• Physical Disabilities
• Polio
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Scoliosis
• Skin Disorders
• Speech Impairment
• Spinal Cord Injury
• Visual Impairment

Ages Served

• Birth to 3
• 3 - 4
• 5 - 8
• 9 - 13
• 14 - 18
• 19 - 22

Accessibility Features

• Accessible Parking
• Accessible Restrooms
• Elevators
• Medical Needs
• Near Public Transportation
• Wheelchair Ramps

Additional Information

• Fees: MassHealth, Medicare, Private Insurance, Personal Funds
• Licensed By: DPH