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What is Pediatric to Adult Health Care Transition (HCT)?
Healthcare transition—abbreviated as HCT—involves moving from a pediatric, family-focused model of care to an adult, patient-focused model.
In Minnesota's pediatric health systems, this transition happens between the ages of 18 and 26 years. Changes during this time can include, but are not limited to:
- Finding providers, hospitals, and home care services that work with adult patients and are the right fit for you
- Developing plans of care that help new adult providers understand your unique healthcare needs
- Preparing for changes in insurance eligibility and understanding options for managing healthcare decisions—such as supportive decision-making or guardianship, if needed
Our Health Care Transition Team
The leadership team of Gillette Children's Health Care Transition efforts is a collaboration between Gillette's Health Services Research Program, The National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health, Got Transition®, and the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH)'s Children and Youth with Special Health Needs (CYSHN) section. Our work is funded by the MDH CYSHN section.
The leadership team is comprised of:
- Tori Bahr, MD, Gillette Children's
- Rhonda Cady, PhD, Gillette Children's
- Margaret McManus, The National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health
- Patience White, MD, The National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health
Our Advisors
The Health Care Transition team's work is informed by the Minnesota Health Care Transition Steering Workgroup:
- Alyssa Greene, Minnesota Department of Health
- Brianna Inkster, Lived Experience Partner
- Carolyn Allshouse, Family Voices of Minnesota
- Elinor Chase-Anderson, Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
- Erica Barnes, Minnesota Rare Disease Advisory Council
Jamie O'Conner, Family Voices of Minnesota & Lived Experience Partner - Joan Kindt, Minnesota Healthcare Home
- Kenzie Kneen, Commercial Insurer
- Mary Benbenek, PhD, CPNP-PC, FNP-BC, UMN Center for Children with Special Healthcare Needs
- Peter Scal, MD, University of Minnesota
- Regina Acevedo, Minnesota Medicaid
- Renee Garcia, Minnesota Association of Community Health Centers
- Tonia Teasley, PACER Center
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The Health Care Transition Learning Collaborative is a program coordinated by Gillette Children’s under a grant funded by the Minnesota Department of Health. Opinions expressed herein do not necessarily represent the position or policy of the Minnesota Department of Health, Gillette Children’s or the Health Care Transition Learning Collaborative.
