Specialty Clinics

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The following services are supported by Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN):

• Audiology
• Cardiology
• Cleft Lip and Palate / Craniofacial
• Developmental Pediatrics
• Genetics
• Neurology
• Neonatal Follow-Up Program
• Occupational & Physical Therapy Evaluations
• Orthopedics
• Psychology
• Speech & Language

For more information contact a program representative at (801) 584-8520.

Providers, please download the CSHCN Referral Form. Once completed, give a copy to the patient and fax the form to the local clinic.

Click here for the following:

• Local CSHCN Satellite Clinic locations and Contact Information
• Salt Lake City CSHCN Clinics and Contact Information

Clinics are conducted in the following locations:

Cleft Lip and Palate Clinic / Craniofacial

Primary Children's Medical Center collaborates with Children with Special Health Care Needs (Utah Department of Health) to provide the Cleft Lip and Palate / Craniofacial Clinic.

The Craniofacial Clinic was established in 1987 by the Utah Department of Health, Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN).  Since that time many children and their families have benefited from our team approach to coordinated care.  Children with Special Health Care Needs prides itself in its commitment to the community by providing services in both urban and rural Utah. Primary Children's Medical Center is a regional referral center serving children in the Intermountain West and beyond.  By combining the efforts of the State of Utah and a facility dedicated entirely to children, we hope to provide the best possible care for your child

A Team Approach

Our program centers on a team approach and coordinated care.  Each child is unique, and treatment or intervention required must be individualized.  Team care for these children arose when health care providers recognized that all of these problems could not be treated by any one specialist.

This program is located at Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.  In addition, clinics are held in St. George, Blanding and Ogden.

To schedule an appointment for any location, please call (801) 588-2713 or (800) 829-8200 ext.8573.  Our CSHCN staff can send you the necessary information and will schedule a clinic appointment.

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Developmental Pediactrics

Pediatricians with a special interest in developmental delays and disabilities provide evaluation and recommendations at the following CSHCN satellite clinics: Blanding/Montezuma Creek, Moab, Ogden, Price, Richfield, St. George and Vernal. These pediatricians are either employed by the Utah Department of Health or contracted through the University of Utah.

The pediatricians work closely with each child’s medical home (the local pediatrician or family practitioner) to aid in the correct diagnosis, offer direction for further evaluation and encourage the medical home to coordinate any suggested ongoing therapy

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Genetics

Genetics clinics for the Wasatch Front area are held at Primary Children's Medical Center.  Genetics clinics are also held at itinerant clinics throughout the state as follows: Moab, Price, Richfield, Vernal, Blanding and St. George.

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Neurology

Neurology Clinics are conducted by the University of Utah, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Neurology in Salt Lake City at Primary Children's Medical Center.

Neurology Clinics are jointly conducted with local health departments in the following locations: Blanding, Logan, Moab, Price, Richfield, St.George and Vernal.

Specialty Clinic Program staff, a Neurology Nurse Coordinator at Primary Children's Medical Center and the local Public Health Nurses provide care-coordination for CSHCN Neurology Clients.

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Occupational and Physical Therapy Evaluations

The Utah Department of Health, Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN), offers the services of occupational and physical therapy to maximize children’s potential for independence through examination, evaluation, and promotion of health and wellness and implementation of a wide variety of interventions and supports.

Therapists at CSHCN, support children through the ages of infancy through adolescence and work as part of an interdisciplinary medical team member, to help promote independence, increase participation, facilitate motor development and function, improve strength, enhance learning opportunities and ease care giving. Therapists as part of the CSHCN team provides services that include assessment and referral to appropriate resources in the areas of:

• Gross motor development
• Fine motor development
• Movement and mobility including balance and coordination
• Adaptation of participation of activities of daily living
• Tone and spasticity assessment and management
• Orthotics and prosthetic assessment, wear and care
• Equipment design, fabrication, and fit
• Use of available assistive technologies
• Feeding and oral motor concerns
• Sensory processing
• Handwriting
• Visual perceptual skills

Therapists here at CSHCN also feel that it is our role to support the families with children with special needs for the fact that it is they are the ones that play the primary role in their child’s development. We feel it is our role, with the family, in taking a family centered care approach in developing an individualized plan of care that takes into consideration those resources available to develop a routine in the framework of the child’s natural environment. It is the family that coordinates services, advocates for supporting services and resources and is the primary provider of care to maximize their child’s overall potential and well being.

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Orthopedics

Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) provide pediatric clinics statewide. The University of Utah pediatric orthopedics staffs these clinics with CSHCN physical therapists. We evaluate orthopedic conditions such as clubfeet, hip dislocation, cerebral palsy and scoliosis. To schedule an appointment you may call (801) 584-8520.

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Psychology

Psychologists at special needs pediatric clinics throughout the state offer evaluations and assessments in the areas of development, communication and learning.

These evaluations, in concert with other evaluations offered in the clinics, can provide valuable information with regard to a child’s strengths and weaknesses across the spectrum of development, and make recommendations for educational, rehabilitative and other treatment services. Such recommendations can also assist in qualifying a child for these services, as well as other community-based programs that provide support to the child and their family.

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