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because of their medical needs. About 85
percent of attendees are children from the
community and about 15 percent are our own
inpatients.
• A school on campus for our inpatients.
Public School 23Q provides teachers, paraprofessionals and therapists right on site for
approximately 30 school-age children. Staff,
curriculum and schedules are governed by the
NYS Department of Education.
• An array of community-based services
including a special needs Certified Home
Health Care Agency (CHHA), a Licensed Home
Care Services Agency (LHCSA) and a Case
Management Program. The case management
program is a Care at Home (CAH) and
Medicaid service coordination program; CAH
is a Medicaid waiver program for medically
fragile children and their families. This case
management expertise will be the basis for
our upcoming foray into the Children’s Health
Home arena.
Another progression of our mission is our
response and action related to an emerging

population of children that are aging into
adulthood and out of our facility and services.
Their needs are still complex and they are faced
with a choice between adult long term care that is
not really designed to meet their needs or being
discharged to the community where there are
not a lot of services available. So our strategy
going forward is to provide an array of services to
provide for these young adults.
To support transition to the community,
we have started an adult day health care
session for 18-25 year-olds, some who have
aged out of our in-patient services and
others from the community. Most of the
referrals come from high schools that care
for the special needs population.
We have hundreds of children in our homecare
programs that are going to age into young adult
hood and even GV