Bridging Hospital to Home for Children with Medical Complexity and Their Families

The JPH is a unique and innovative Transitional Care Unit (TCU) situated in close proximity of the AUMC. In this TCU, patients and their family reside in separate private home-like apartments. The families can stay while practising in, and adapting to, their new reality until they are ready to transition home. A multidisciplinary team of healthcare experts (nurses, psychosocial care workers, family counsellors, and paediatricians) are gradually guiding parents towards taking on the role of their child's primary caregiver. This process is guided by a newly developed seven phase care path.One condition for staying in the JPH is that one parent is always present. In this form (24/7 parental stay and nursing care directly available under the supervision of pediatricians) the JPH is unique in the Netherlands.