Health & Safety

The South Carolina Children's Hospital Collaborative seeks to improve the health, safety, and well-being of children through various initiatives. The Collaborative is currently involved with the following statewide initiatives:

Medicaid Birth Outcomes Initiative
This initiative seeks to reduce the number of premature, low birth weight babies being born in South Carolina, lower the cost of care being provided to infants in the neonatal intensive care units, and improve the quality of care being provided to infants in the state's neonatal intensive care units. This is a multi-partner effort involving the children's hospital, the statewide neonatal consortium, obstetricians, Medicaid, health plans, SC DHEC, March of Dimes, and other organizations.

Airway Clearance Therapy Centers of Excellence
Cystic fibrosis patients require airway clearance therapy (ACT) to maintain lung function. To ensure that Medicaid-eligible children with cystic fibrosis receive the highest quality and most cost effective care, the three major children's hospitals are working with Medicaid to develop regional centers of excellence for these services.

ATV Safety
The SC Children's Hospital Collaborative continues to take the lead role in advocating for all-terrain vehicle (ATV) safety and children. Chandler's Law, South Carolina's ATV safety legislation, became effective July 1, 2011. Statewide efforts to educate the public about the law's requirements , the need for safety equipment, and the need for hands-on training are continuing. Information about the law can be found at www.chandlersatv.org.