Preterm counselling Tailwind

Nachsorgeteam der Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin am Klinikum Frankfurt Höchst
Gotenstr. 6-8
65929 Frankfurt

Fon: 069-31063532
Fax: 069-31063572

E-Mail: nachsorge.kinderklinik@KlinikumFrankfurt.de
Homepage: www.varisano.de/.../nachsorgeteam-rueckenwind

• Available by telephone from Monday to Friday between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m.
• Appointments also out of hours 

• Andrea Christiansen (pediatric nurse, head of aftercare team) 
• Catrin Schäfer (social pedagogue) 

Social medical aftercare according to § 43 Para. 2 SGB V for premature and chronically ill children in the transition between paediatric clinic and home environment.

• Advice
• Networking and coordination
• Connection to therapists, SPC
• Early intervention centres
• Specialists
• Other stakeholders from the health and social care system
• Family therapy support
• Social legal counselling

Built according to the Bunter Kreis model, member of the Bundesverband Bunter Kreis e.V., re-accredited according to the quality guidelines of the Bunter Kreis e.V.

• Paediatric nurses (some with specialist training in intensive care medicine)
• 1 social pedagogue
• 1 family therapist
• Paediatrician
• Cooperation with other disciplines involved in the paediatric clinic 

• If necessary, interpreters can be called in, subject to agreement and availability. 
• English conversation possible.

• Children aged between 0-14 years
• in exceptional cases also up to 18 years.
• Focus on premature babies and children with various disabilities

• Medical prescription
• Regular assumption of costs by statutory health insurers
• private health insurance companies on a case-by-case basis.
• 20 follow-up hours within 12 weeks after hospital discharge. 

• Early help Frankfurt and surrounding area
• Paediatricians, specialists, outpatient clinics
• SPC 
• Outpatient children's and youth hospice service
• Therapists 
• Early intervention centres 
• Family education centres, counselling centres
• Providers of medical aids