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WIN for Asthma Program
Washington Heights/Inwood Network (WIN) for Asthma Program
In May 2006, the New York-Presbyterian Hospital Ambulatory Care Network, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian and the Community Pediatrics of Columbia University initiated the Washington-Heights Inwood Network (WIN) for Asthma Program.
The Program is a community partnership with multiple institutional partners,including, elementary schools, community-based organizations, day care centers, visiting nurse services, and a university asthma outreach program.
One of the main objectives of this network of care is to strengthen community-wide asthma management for the families of children with poorly controlled asthma. Another objective is to provide families, health care providers, teachers, and daycares with appropriate asthma management tools. The primary goal, however, is to help these children live healthy and active lives.
Program Goals
- To decrease asthma-related hospitalizations, emergency department visits, and school absences in the Northern Manhattan community.
- To improve the quality of care provided to children with asthma by offering group and individualized training, and quality improvement services to health care providers in the northern Manhattan area.
Program Outreach &: Accomplishments
- 132 families of children with asthma have actively participated in Care Coordination services.
- 98 referrals have been made to partner organizations.
- 32 health care providers have been engaged in individualized asthma quality. improvement practices at their sites.
- 14 PACE trainings have been offered to physicians representing all boroughs.
Program Special Features
- "Network of care" program model strengthens community partnership and enables programs to help families address competing obstacles.
- Family Asthma Workers represent the community and work out of partner community-based organizations.
- Single point of contact (WIN for Asthma Hotline) for all hospital, provider, and community referrals.
- Collaboration with Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian, the Emergency Department, and the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit enables Family Asthma Workers to immediately identify, and help, families.
Populations Served
Families of children 0-18 with high-risk asthma in Washington Heights/Inwood and West Harlem, the project area extends from 130th Street to the northern tip of Manhattan and from the Hudson River to Saint Nicholas Avenue (roughly six square miles).
Contact
- WIN for Asthma Program
- (212) 305-4065
