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Primary Care for Children in Foster Care and

Children in Preventive Services

A Guide for Agencies to Schedule Appointments at NYC Health + Hospitals

Video on how to use this site:
And here's a video on how to upload the consents into Epic.
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         Call for an appointment      

1.  For children in foster care:

 

Foster Care Agencies are encouraged to upload these signed forms to EpicCare Link prior to the appointment, but it's not required. The foster parent or case worker can bring these forms to the appointment:

  • Signed consent for medical treatment

  • Signed HIPAA release form

    • You can use your agency's forms, but if you use our H+H TPO form then our health providers can more easily get records from other hospitals.

  • Foster care intake form

    • In order to treat this child, we need to know why they are in foster care, and any other information known about their schooling, health, etc.​

Family Health Program Hotline: 

(347) 507-3942

  • Hotline hours: Monday - Friday, 9a-8p

  • The agent will take your information, and the child's information and create the chart.

  • While you are still on the line, the agent will have you upload the 3 documents.

  • The agent will see the documents immediately and then will assist you in getting an appointment at the Pediatric Clinic of your choice.

2. For families in Preventive Services, the parent must call;

  • For Family Health Program: 347-507-3942

  • For all other sites: 1-844-NYC-4NYC (692-4692) - call 24/7

3. For children in foster care:

  • When the child moves to a new home, please upload this contact information into EpicCare Link so that we know who to contact about appointments or urgent lab results.

  • For Pediatric subspecialists, continue making those referrals electronically through EpicCare Link.

Dental Clinics: Every clinic has their own phone number for appointments - download the list here.

Reproductive Health Services: All of the FHP sites have reproductive health services; however, if the teen needs additional sites or a procedure like a termination, check out these sites.

 

To read ACS's guidelines for medical consent for children in foster care, download their most recent presentation here: ACS policies (5/13/19)

1. Consent for general medical treatment: use your agency's form, or use ACS's form:

 

2. Consent to share information: feel free to use your agency's form, but ideally use our H+H form because it allows us to gather information from more hospitals:

Download Consent Forms

Family Health Program Sites

For children and youth age 0-21:

NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, Morrisania

1225 Gerard Avenue

Bronx, NY 10452

NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, Cumberland

100 North Portland Avenue

Brooklyn, NY 11205

For children age 0-5:

NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue

462 First Avenue

New York, NY 10016

NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens

82-68 164th Street

Jamaica, New York 11432

NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, Gouverneur

227 Madison Street

New York, NY 10002

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Our 28 Pediatric Clinics

Here's a list of the sites providing care to children and youth. 

  • Bellevue

  • Belvis

  • Bushwick 

       Communicare​

  • Coney Island

  • Corona District

  • Cumberland

  • East New York

  • Elmhurst

  • Fort Greene

  • Gouverneur

  • Greenpoint

  • Harlem

  • Homecrest

  • Jacobi

  • Jonathan Williams

       House

  • Judson

  • Kings

  • Lincoln

  • Metropolitan

  • Morrisania

  • North Central Bronx

  • Parsons

  • Queens

  • Queens Health Net Springfield

  • St. Nicholas Child Health Center

  • Syndenham

  • Williamsburg

  • Woodhull

  • Vanderbilt

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Click below on this map to go to the H+H website to see where each clinic is located.

When you go to this map, in the right corner click Refine to search by borough, and click List to see the addresses of all the sites.

 

© 2020 by Aaron Miller, MD, MPA, FAAP

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