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BREATHING INSTITUTE
PULMONOLOGY
Pre-Empting Asthma Triggers
Providers and patients report that it is difficult to explore and appreciate day-to-day
barriers and exposures to asthma triggers that prevent families from effectively
treating asthma during a clinic visit.
LEADERSHIP:
Robin Deterding, MD,
Chief, Pediatric
Pulmonary Medicine
Ed and Roxanne Fie
Anderson Family Chair,
Breathing
Mark Brown, MD,
Associate Director,
Breathing Institute
READ MORE ABOUT
PULMONOLOGY:
Pulmonology helps
save baby with CDH,
p. 44
“The Cannula
that Saved Kylie,”
p. 52
That’s why the Children’s Hospital Colorado asthma team designed the Just Keep
Breathing (JKB) asthma home visit program to supplement asthma specialist clinic
visits. JKB community health workers visit homes to assess triggers and educate the
family. They also help patients and families identify barriers to treating asthma and
help the family create a self-management plan.
“We work with families to understand how their environment, understanding
of asthma, and home life affect kids’ breathing,” says Monica Federico, MD, lead
physician for JKB. “If we can understand that, then I think we can do a better job of
improving their health.”
Included in Just Keep Breathing:
• Three to five home visits
• Asthma education specific to each family
• Patient assistance to help overcome barriers to care
• Home walk-through to look for triggers
• Limited home remediation to remove triggers, including
cleaning supplies
• Support from a community health worker, nurse and
social worker
“Children’s Hospital Colorado
is different because our
priority is delivering the
highest quality care, but the
quality is defined by the kids,
and by the families. So we
concentrate on talking to
families and talking to kids
about what would make
their experience better and
we drive our own evaluations
of how well we do by what
families want.”
M O N I C A F E D E R I C O, M D
Medical Director, Asthma Program, Breathing Institute
B R E AT H I N G I N S T I T U T E
7 TH
In the nation as ranked by U.S. News & World Report
49
Pulmonary and sleep faculty
53%
MD and PhD faculty-funded in research
$13M
In active research funding
4,000
Pediatric sleep studies annually
Children who have seen an asthma specialist at Children’s Colorado and have had
an emergency department visit or hospitalization due to asthma in the past year are
eligible. The program is free for residents within 20 miles of Children’s Colorado’s
location in Aurora, Colorado.
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