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Lancaster County clinic expands at-home services for pediatric patients in Plain communities
Ioannis Pashakis//February 11, 2020
Lancaster County clinic expands at-home services for pediatric patients in Plain communities
Ioannis Pashakis//February 11, 2020
A Strasburg Township, Lancaster County-based non-profit clinic will be expanding its pediatric home care services for Plain patients with a new grant from WellSpan Health.
The Clinic for Special Children (CSC), a provider of palliative care and laboratory services for patients with rare medical disorders, received a $10,000 Community Partnership Grant from WellSpan Health this month to grow a program for its young patients in local Amish and Mennonite communities.
The clinic already offers free services to pediatric Plain patients in the form of at-home palliative care nurse, primary care physician and specialist visits. The services are meant to support young patients and their families in a culturally sensitive way in the comfort of their own homes.
The additional funds will allow the non-profit to establish the services under the clinic’s new Cherished Lives program, Kelly Cullen, communications manager for the clinic.
“The expansion of the Cherished Lives program will allow CSC to offer comfort care, emotional support, bereavement services and grief resources to families that experience the loss of a child from a rare genetic disorder,” said Keturah Beiler, a nurse at the clinic and co-founder of the Cherished Lives program.
CSC also acts as a primary care provider from its Strasburg clinic for both adult and pediatric patients with rare genetic disorders, and currently has over 1,050 active patients.
