2020 Annual Report

GENERAL PEDIATRICS The Division of General Pediatrics is committed to fostering optimal health and well-being of children, families and communities.

To realize this mission, we provide exceptional clinical care in partnership with families, teach evidence-based clinical pediatrics to the next generation of pediatric health-care providers, and pursue original research and vigorous advocacy around issues important to children, families and the public. Our activities place special emphasis on caring for children with special healthcare needs, including disadvantaged children, children growing up in low-income families, and children with complex and chronic health conditions.

The Division of General Pediatrics continues to provide the majority of pediatric primary care to Hartford’s children through the ambulatory and primary care clinics at Connecticut Pediatrics at Community Health Center (CHC), Inc., Connecticut Children’s Primary Care East/West, and the Burgdorf/Bank of America Health Center. This year our West Hartford primary care site relocated to Farmington. Primary Care West is now housed in a beautiful new Connecticut Children’s facility, along with Adolescent Medicine. Members of the Division of General Pediatrics provide ambulatory care to infants, children, and adolescents, and inpatient care in the newborn nurseries at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, CT, and John Dempsey Hospital/University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, CT, and at Connecticut Children’s for children with lead poisoning.

Our ambulatory services include health supervision, behavioral health care, chronic disease management, and urgent care using a medical home model. The division houses innovative, community-wide clinical programs such as the Hartford Regional Lead Poisoning Treatment Center and the Reach Out and Read literacy program. Division faculty have gained regional and national prominence for clinical research, education, and program development in the fields of lead poisoning and prevention, integrated behavioral health, early obesity prevention and emergent literacy promotion.