Day Hospital Feeding Program
Children who need more intensive treatment than we can provide in the outpatient clinic are seen in our Day Hospital Feeding Program.
Here, we help your child change the behaviors that prevent her from accepting foods in her mouth and learning to eat.
We also provide occupational and speech therapy to support your child's treatment goals.
Treatment schedule
Our program runs from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, so you can return home in the evenings and on weekends. The usual Day Hospital Feeding Program stay is four weeks. After your child completes the program, our team will see him in outpatient clinic to insure that his progress continues.
2011 patient trends
Some data about the patients we see in the Day Hospital Feeding Program:
- Patients recommended for the Program/year: 272
- Day Hospital Feeding Program Patients served/year: 80
- Average patient age: 3.4 years
- Average length of Day patient stay: 19.5 Days
- Percent of families with identified language barrier in which we provided interpreters: 13.5%. Languages for 2011 included American Sign Language, Spanish, Mandarin, Farsi, Bengali
About our staff
Your child's treatment team is a group of professionals from different specialties who work together to identify and treat your child's feeding problems.
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