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Fostering Health Program at Cook Children’s

The Cook Children’s Fostering Health Program ensures foster children are seen for a medical exam within three days of being removed from their home. Foster parents Cory & Maddie Churchman share their story of how this resource has helped their family.

The exam is a medical screening that is intended to provide a baseline of a child’s physical health upon entering foster care. It is also an opportunity for the caregiver to obtain necessary treatment and medications for a child that may not have been obtained at the time of removal, such as an asthma inhaler or eczema cream.

The Churchman family says many offices won’t accept Medicaid insurance, or the office is full and not accepting new patients, so having the foster care clinic at Cook Children’s alleviates that stress.