Arkansas Children's Hospital is opening the Medical Home Program for Special Needs Children, a once weekly clinic for infants and children under 3 years old who have at least two complex and chronic medical conditions with associated nutritional and developmental concerns that require extensive subspecialty follow-up care.

The clinic will be led by co-medical directors Patrick Casey, MD, medical director of the Growth and Development Clinic and the Harvey& Bernice Jones Professor of Developmental Pediatrics at UAMS College of Medicine, and Robert Lyle, MD, co-medical director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Section of Neonatology at the UAMS College of Medicine.

The clinic has several goals. Chief among them will be meeting patients' general health, nutritional and developmental care needs. The clinic's staff also will facilitate access to the subspecialty care each child needs and coordinate planning and communication about therapies, if needed. That means helping these families get the care they need in an easier way.