"...they explained everything in words that I understood – they told me things I could do in the house to help the baby. I am very thankful. They did such a great job."
The VNA of Boston's Maternal Child Health Team (MCH) is a team of highly skilled obstetrical and pediatric nurses who provide home care services to women with high-risk pregnancies, premature infants, children with acute, chronic or terminal illnesses’ as well as early maternity discharge.
The MCH Team intervenes at critical junctures in a family’s life and has the opportunity to be in setting no other members of the health care team are likely to enter—the patient's home.
Examples of MCH TEAM referrals include:
- High-risk prenatal and postpartum care
- High-risk infants, including prematurity, NAS
- Infants or children with cardiac anomalies
- Infants with feeding problems
- Breastfeeding difficulties
- Early Maternity Discharge visits
- C-Section wound care
- High-risk teen moms and infants
- Children and adolescents with cancer
- Children and adolescents with diabetes or asthma
- Environmental assessment for asthma triggers
« Back to Our Services
