Dream House for Medically Fragile Children will dedicate its Family for Keeps™ Transition Care Home in Lilburn, Ga. in honor of Georgia Representative Clay Cox, District 102 at an invitation-only ceremony Tuesday evening, October 27, 2009.
"Clay Cox has been a dedicated supporter of Dream House and the children and families we serve," commented Laura O. Moore, Dream House Founder and Chief Executive Officer. "He has worked hard to draft a piece of ground breaking legislation that created a new state licensure for Children's Transition Care Centers. Representative Cox knows about true health care reform keeping our children out of institutional care, and instead, enabling them to live at home with a family where they belong."
Dream House, a not-for-profit statewide organization devoted to children with complex health issues and supported solely by private donations, was awarded in August the first and only Children's Transition Care Centers license in the nation. Via its innovative Family for Keeps Transition Care Model, Dream House offers wrap-around, hospital-to-home programs that provide a pathway for Georgias medically fragile children to get out of institutional care into stable, single-family homes.
The Childrens Transition Care Center licensure now provides the framework for Dream House to, in the future, replicate its trademarked model of care by building additional Family for Keeps™ Transition Care Homes to meet the needs of this pediatric population in Georgia. Offering a more effective and cost efficient solution to housing these kids in hospitals or adult nursing homes, Family for Keeps™ is the resource that enables medically fragile children to have a home, a family and a future.
