Family Care Center
Located adjacent to CHAM, the Family Care Center (FCC) cares for children and families from the west and central Bronx, upper Manhattan, and lower Westchester.
Serving an ethnically and socio-economically diverse population, the FCC offers family-care centered services in:
- Pediatrics,
- Adult medicine,
- OB-GYN,
- A variety of adult sub-specialties.
Pediatric subspecialty patients are seen next door at CHAM. Nutritionists, social workers, and a pediatric nurse practitioner are also available at this practice.
In addition to the excellence in general pediatrics offered at this site, our physicians have particular interests including:
Pediatric Infectious Disease and HIV disease:
- Board Certified Pediatric Infectious Disease physician specializing in HIV disease
- Confidential HIV testing and counseling
Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics:
- Board Certified Developmental Pediatrician
- Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, cerebral palsy, developmental delay and other conditions
Adolescent Medicine and teen parenting program:
- Jointly run by OB-GYN and Pediatrics with fellows from the Division of Adolescent Medicine of CHAM
- Confidential comprehensive adolescent care
- STD treatment
- Contraception
- Parenting advice for teen-age mothers
Children with chronic illness:
- Award winning program "Linking Individualized Needs of Children with Services (LINCS)"for families of children with chronic illness
- CHAM-based multidisciplinary team dedicated to subspecialty needs of chronically ill children
Asthma:
- National Heart Lung and Blood Institute Guideline approach to treatment of all children with asthma
Daniel H. Schwartz Vocational Initiative Healthcare Program
