A craniofacial condition can affect a child's growth and development, and also their appearance. Surgical treatment is available for many conditions, such as cleft lip and palate, craniosynostosis, microtia, and other birth defects.
Our team of experts is committed to meeting your child's health needs. We provide comprehensive, multi-disciplinary treatment for children with clefts or other craniofacial disorders. Our team works with you and your children to achieve the best possible outcomes for both of you.
The craniofacial center is staffed with a team of specialists from different clinical and scientific fields. They are dedicated to providing you child the highest quality of care. The team consists a plastic and neurosurgeon as well as a speech pathologist, an orthodontist, and a nurse specialist. Together, they provide integrated care for your child.
Our craniofacial surgeons offer a complete range of treatments including non-invasive therapy for many disorders and surgery to correct deformities. They also provide pain management services. Our physicians and staff are committed to offering your child the most advanced technology and procedures, while focusing on ensuring a comfortable, stress-free experience.
As a CCS Special Care Center we have a care coordinator who will help you coordinate your care and provide follow-up. This team works closely with your family to make sure you understand the diagnosis, medical treatment plan and financial arrangements.
At Seattle Children's Hospital, our craniofacial specialists treat a variety of disorders that affect the skull, face, jaw and ear. The conditions include clefts of the lip and palate, craniosynostosis as well as Crouzon syndrome and Pfeiffer.
* Ear infections and hearing loss are common in children with cleft lip, cleft palate and other craniofacial defects. We can offer treatment to prevent recurrent infections, or hearing impairment.
Our team can provide reconstructive surgeries for malformations such as cleft lip or palate, as well as ear, eye, nose, and mouth deformities. To achieve the best results, we use the latest techniques and procedures.
We provide complex and minimally-invasive treatments for patients with craniofacial diseases, such as endoscopic surgery to remove asymmetrical skull bones and cranial reshaping to correct asymmetrical skull bones. We perform laser therapy to treat birthmarks or skin anomalies, including hemifacial asymmetry (a facial condition where the chin and cheeks are not aligned properly).
The craniofacial clinic at Maria Fareri Children's Hospital can provide a range of services tailored to your child's individual needs. The program's staff includes experts in craniofacial care, oral and maximumillofacial surgery and neurosurgery. They also have expertise in audiology, otolaryngology and speech pathology.
Your child's team of craniofacial specialists will meet with both you and your kid to discuss specific concerns and issues relating to your child’s craniofacial disorder and treatment options. They will then work with you and your child to create a treatment plan that is right for your family.
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What should I know regarding vaccines?
Vaccines offer a way to keep your body healthy and are extremely safe. Vaccines give you immunity to certain diseases. Vaccinations are usually given at specific times during childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Your doctor will advise you when it is best for you to be vaccinated.
What are the various health care services available?
A health care provider is a medical institution that offers healthcare services for patients. An example of a healthcare service is a hospital. A hospital typically includes several departments like the emergency department and intensive care unit. It also has pharmacy and outpatient clinics.
How can I get my free health insurance?
If you're eligible, you could apply for free coverage. You might be eligible for Medicaid, Medicare, CHIP, Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Tricare, VA benefits, Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB), military health plans, Indian Health Service (IHS) benefits, or some other program.
Who controls the healthcare system in Canada?
It depends on how you look at it. Public hospitals might be managed by the government. Private companies may run private hospitals. Or a combination.
What are the health care services?
The most important thing for patients to know is that they have access to quality healthcare at any time. We're available to assist you with routine or urgent care.
We offer many types of appointments including walk-in surgery, same-day operation, emergency department visits, outpatient procedures and so on. We also provide home care visits for those who live far from our clinic. We will ensure that you get prompt treatment at the nearest hospital if you aren't comfortable visiting our clinic.
Our team includes pharmacists, dentists and other professionals committed to excellent patient service. Our goal is to make each visit as painless and convenient as possible.
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- Foreign investment in hospitals—up to 70% ownership- has been encouraged as an incentive for privatization. (en.wikipedia.org)
- Price Increases, Aging Push Sector To 20 Percent Of Economy". (en.wikipedia.org)
- The health share of the Gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to continue its upward trend, reaching 19.9 percent of GDP by 2025. (en.wikipedia.org)
- For the most part, that's true—over 80 percent of patients are over the age of 65. (rasmussen.edu)
- Consuming over 10 percent of [3] (en.wikipedia.org)
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What are the 4 Health Systems
Healthcare is a complex network that includes hospitals, clinics and pharmaceutical companies as well as insurance providers, government agencies, public officials and other organizations.
This infographic was created to help people understand the US healthcare system.
Here are some key points.
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Annual healthcare spending totals $2 trillion and represents 17% GDP. That's more than twice the total defense budget!
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Medical inflation reached 6.6% for 2015, more than any other category.
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On average, Americans spend 9% of their income on health costs.
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There were more than 300 million Americans without insurance as of 2014.
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Although the Affordable Care act (ACA) was signed into law, its implementation is still not complete. There are still significant gaps in coverage.
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The majority of Americans think that the ACA needs to be improved.
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The US spends more money on healthcare than any other country in the world.
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Affordable healthcare would mean that every American has access to it. The annual cost would be $2.8 trillion.
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Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers pay 56% of healthcare expenses.
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These are the top three reasons people don’t get insured: Not being able afford it ($25B), not having enough spare time to find insurance ($16.4B), and not knowing anything ($14.7B).
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HMO (health management organization) and PPO(preferred provider organisation) are the two types of plans.
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Private insurance covers many services, including doctors and dentists, prescriptions, and physical therapy.
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The public programs cover outpatient surgery as well as hospitalizations, nursing homes, long term care, hospice, and preventive health care.
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Medicare, a federal program, provides seniors with health insurance. It covers hospital stays, skilled nursing facility stays and home visits.
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Medicaid is a joint federal-state program that provides financial assistance for low-income individuals or families who earn too little to qualify for other benefits.