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Early Childhood Exceptional Professionals Techno-Daycare

By Exceptional Parent; Exceptional Parent Magazine, Vol. 30, No. 2
(Pages: 28-30) Publication Date: February 2000

The article discusses daycare that provides a cost-effective alternative to extended hospital stays for technology-dependent children. It features information about the work of Janet Carroll, a pediatric nurse who began a Delaware-based pediatric daycare center that is run by the state. The article describes how Ms. Carroll obtained state and federal support and modeled the center on the successful Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care Centers. The article discusses these centers in detail, the services they provide,and the kinds of children they help. The article contains a sidebar about community-based care for medically fragile children that was adapted from the ARCH Factsheet number 11. The article contains 3 photographs.
Published by: EP Global Communications   (Website:http://www.eparent.com)

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