Children's Hospital Medical Center
Site Description
The Primary Pediatric Center (PPC) at Cincinnati Children's Hospital has over 35,000 patient visits per year, providing primary
pediatric care to children from birth to adolescents. The patient population served is about 88% Medicaid and 5% uninsured.
The clinic is open every day of the week, as well as five evenings throughout the week. At the PPC, there are 20 attending
physicians as well as 26 moonlighting and community doctors that each work approximately one shift per week. In addition, it
is a large teaching facility with 160 residents and medical students training in the clinic each year.
Job Description
The intern will...
- • Gain insight into how financial barriers and social issues affect the basic healthcare of children.
- • Obtain exposure to new program development.
- • Acquire knowledge regarding the legal procedures and involvement in health care.
- • Work on the development of a Medical-Legal Partnership for Children (MLPC) by.
- • Implementing screening questions in the clinic.
- • Creating materials for the waiting room and examination rooms to raise awareness and increase
family empowerment.
- • Developing a database to track cases.
- • Making follow up telephone calls to families to ensure resources have been obtained and to
determine case disposition.
- • Assist Dr. Kahn in developing a grant application to seek funds for the project.
- • Shadow residents, attending physicians, and social workers regularly in the PPC clinic to develop the
necessary skills to work on the MLPC project.
- • Meet with lawyers and case managers at the Legal Aid Society.
- • Be closely mentored in all activities by Dr. Robert Kahn.
- • Need to start the process of obtaining their ID badge as soon as possible after being selected.
This process costs $15 and takes a few weeks to finish.
In 2007, the goal of the position is to help build a new "bridge" between the Pediatric Primary Care (PPC) Clinic at
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati. Children's Hospital is
seeking to create a new local site for a national program called the Medical-Legal Partnership for Children (MLPC).
The MLPC (see http://www.mlpforchildren.org for more information)
is a collaboration that promotes children's optimal health and well-being by ensuring that their basic needs are met.
The organization seeks to develop a system that proactively identifies and serves children whose health may depend on legal
assistance.
Intern Experience Summary
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