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 UCSF Children’s Hospital (Inpatient)
General Pediatric Inpatient Service
General Pediatric Medicine Consult Service
Sedation and Procedural Support Service Specially trained hospitalists and sedation nurses provide expert procedural sedation and other procedural support to patients throughout UCSF Children’s Hospital. Children who require painful procedures or those who cannot remain still long enough to complete important diagnostic tests are provided with a combination of behavioral and pharmacological sedation, and are monitored closely throughout to ensure maximum safety.
How To Contact Us Pediatric Hospitalist Program Physicians Stephen Wilson, MD, PhD Timothy Kelly, MD Pediatric Social Workers
Pediatric Case Manager
Pediatric Sedation Nurses
Pediatric Clinical Pharmacists
The UCSF Children’s Hospital Access Center provides easy access to the Children’s Hospital for physicians from the community. Physicians can call the access center 24/7/365 and immediately speak to a highly experienced, hospital-based pediatric nurse. The nurse determines if the patient requires critical care services, oncology services, or hospitalist services. The appropriate UCSF physician is then brought into the conference call and admission and appropriate medical transport are arranged by the Access Center team. Physcian & Staff Stephen Wilson, MD, PhD How To Contact Us
UCSF Children’s Hospital Access Center
Newborn Nursery Service
Physicians Carol A. Miller, MD Pediatric Nurse Practitioners
Lactation Specialists
Perinatal Social Workers
Perinatal Case Manager
How To Contact Us Nurse Manager Perinatal Services
UCSF Children’s Hospital at ValleyCare
Pediatric Hospitalists
Neonatologists
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The general pediatric inpatient service (the hospitalist service) provides direct inpatient care to patients with a variety of diagnoses. Physicians specializing in the highly complex hospital environment work with pediatric nurses, pharmacists, therapists and child life specialists to provide care for children with complex medical problems from the local community as well as children who are referred from all over northern and central California. Comprehensive social and case management services provide support to families while their child is in the hospital. Our physicians and case managers work closely with the patient’s primary care physician to ensure a smooth transition to the outpatient setting.
In addition to providing direct patient care, the hospitalist service provides consultative services to pediatric medical and surgical specialists. Via the access center, the hospitalist service also provides telephone consultation with physicians at community hospitals throughout northern and central California.
The newborn nursery provides care to all infants born at UCSF not requiring neonatal intensive care. The nursery is staffed by physicians and nurse practitioners with special expertise in the care of newborns. Well infants as well as those with acute illnesses and birth defects are cared for in an environment designed to support the bond between parents and their new baby. New parent education, lactation education, social service support, and case management are all part of the team approach. In addition, the team works closely with home health nurses and the Early Discharge Clinic to ensure a smooth transition home. When desired, circumcisions are performed by the physicians.
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