Navigating the health care system can be hard for anyone. It gets tougher as a family’s medical needs get more complicated. Children’s Aid Health Connections can help families of children with chronic conditions get the medical, behavioral, and social support they need when they need it. We manage doctors’ appointments, medications, and paperwork so that families can focus on treatment and children can focus on staying healthy and succeeding in school.
Children’s Aid Health Connections currently provides care management services in multiple locations throughout Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island.
Care Coordinators
Our trained multicultural and multilingual care coordinators are skilled navigators of health care—from finding doctors and specialty services in the community, to arranging transportation, to accompanying families to appointments and explaining treatment plans.
Health Connections care assist qualifying families with a number of responsibilities. They:
- Make referrals for services
- Advocate for support services
- Remind families of appointments
- Arrange transportation
- Go with families to appointments
- Help explain treatment plans
- Find needed specialty services
Care coordinators work with a strong network of experienced organizations and medical and behavioral health centers to find the best resources available
Who Qualifies for Health Connections?
To be eligible for Health Connections, children aged 0-21 must:
- have Medicaid coverage;
- have a combination of specific medical and/or behavioral conditions, such as asthma, obesity, developmental delays, chronic ear infections, autism, ADHD, anxiety, and others; and,
- meet certain risk factors that may benefit from help accessing health and/or behavioral health services.
Contact Us
For additional information about Children’s Aid Health Connections, please email or call 212-949-4950.
