Community

Children's Health Center is a free standing, non-profit primary care clinic and the primary training site for the UCSF Fresno pediatric residents and rotating medical students. The clinic is the medical home for the majority of the underprivileged, underserved, under insured, children from poor income, urban population of the Fresno metro area. Our asthma program focuses on patient education, provider education and Continuous Quality Improvement of our asthma services. Through two successive State funded asthma initiatives from 2005 to 2009 (BPCA and IAC) we have successfully implemented changes in our asthma care practices with significant impact on the asthma care standards, reduced hospitalization rates, ED visits, and improved Quality of Life in asthmatic children.

We are starting a new asthma education program for our patients. We will start by focusing on the children and home environments. This will be done at office visits and in 2 of elementary schools. The goal is to reduce the amount of missed school days and use of rescue inhalers.

The original goals of the Center for Childhood Asthma in the Urban Environment (CCAUE) Community Outreach and Translational Core were to create a structure to develop, implement, and evaluate strategies to translate and apply the scientific findings of the center into information for the public, policy makers, and clinical professionals to us to protect the health of children.