CHILDREN'S DIAGNOSTIC & TREATMENT CENTER

CDTC’s Comprehensive Family AIDS Program (CFAP) provides primary care, specialty HIV medical care, medical case management and supportive services to HIV positive women, youth, children and infants who are HIV infected and HIV exposed. CFAP provides a one stop, family-centered approach to healthcare to address the needs of individuals living with HIV or AIDS and their families.

CDTC has been an active research site since its inception and is well known as a clinical research site for HIV/AIDS in the United States. CDTC participates in research studies that have impacted infants, children, adolescents and pregnant women throughout the United States and worldwide.

CDTC provides primary care services for children with special healthcare needs and their siblings in our Pediatric Primary Care Clinic. Our physicians and practitioners are part of a comprehensive care team connected with our Dental Clinic and Medical Home Programs. They provide patients with the best quality of care in a manner which respects our families cultural and linguistic diversity.

Extraordinary Children, Healthy Outcomes (ECHO), formerly Medical Home, serves children and youth from birth to 17 who have a developmental disability or are at high risk and have a developmental delay in cognition, language, or physical development.

Children and youth in the ECHO program are assigned a Care Coordinator who works closely with the Pediatric Primary Care Clinic staff and the family to manage appointments with physicians, specialists, therapists and medical diagnosticians. Other significant functions of the Care Coordinator include coordination of documentation from multiple medical sources, follow up with families on their plan goals and updating the Primary Care physician.

The program provides Adolescents enrolled in non-post-secondary school continue receiving services through their 22nd birthday.

In 2011, the United Way of Broward County (UWBC) granted funding to CDTC to establish the Lift a Child to Health (LCH) program to expand comprehensive care coordination services to additional families in the Primary Care Clinic. The children have been identified by our physicians as “rising risk,” needing assistance with medical management of their child’s condition to prevent it worsening, however not of the complexity of the population qualifying for the ECHO program.

The Transitioning Adolescents Forward into Tomorrow (TAFT) Program provides care management services to youth from ages 13 to 24 years old and serves as the compass to help guide families through the conversion to adult care for their special needs young adult.

While healthy children have various options in the community for dental care, families of children with special health care needs are much more restricted in their choices. CDTC was able to provide a solution to this service gap by offering on-site dental care in the same location families bring their children for medical care. With medical home and dental home programs under the same roof, patients and their families have enhanced accessibility to care and an overall better experience knowing that their children are in the hands of experts. The physician and dental providers are also better able to collaborate to provide centralized care as a team.

Services include: exams, cleanings, sealants, fluoride treatments, restorations, extractions and other procedures.