Additional Programs and Services

At Nationwide Children’s, we have many additional diversity programs and initiatives in place to help engage our employees, patients, families and communities:

Around All Children –

at least 40 counties and providing comprehensive care to HIV-infected children,

Around the Employee –

• One Team – Our overall values and guiding principles. • YOU Matter – Provides 24-hour care to staff experiencing a normal reaction to a stressful event or outcome (also called “second victim”). • Family as Faculty – A resource to help teach staff about family-centered care.

Around the Patient and Their Family –

• Zero Hero – Nationwide Children’s quality and safety program. • Family Advisory Council – An advisory committee to ensure the needs of children and families are met by providing a vehicle of communication for cooperative efforts between the families and the entire staff. • MyChart – A web-based and mobile resource for families, to access medical information for your child. • Pastoral Care – Chaplains provide emotional and spiritual support for patients, families and staff. • Clinical Social Work – Work at the intersection of people’s lives and their health and care by promoting/supporting selfsufficiency, resilience and advocacy. • Connecting Families – Mentor program to help create family-to-family partnerships to promote healthy lifestyles and enhance the

• THRIVE – A program specializing in care for differences/disorders of sex development, complex urological conditions and gender concerns.

• Family AIDS Clinic and Education Services

(FACES) – Central Ohio’s primary HIV clinic, serving more than 400 HIV-positive clients in quality of life for the child and for their family.

youth and families. • CAP4Kids – Information on everything from afterschool programs and housing to mental health resources, and services for kids with special needs. • Pediatric Vital Signs – Under our strategic plan, a focus on prematurity, asthma, health supervision, diabetes and obesity. • Behavioral Health – A multidisciplinary team of licensed professionals with relevant training, specialization and skill in assessing and providing mental, behavioral and trauma health services to children and adolescents, and their families.

“I always thought that it was going to be the impact I had on patients that would make me love global health work, but in reality, it was the effect patients had on me.”

– Mena Botros, MD, Pulmonary Critical Care Fellow, Former Internal Medicine Chief Resident, 2018-2019