In New York’s South Bronx community, one in five school-aged children has asthma — one of the highest rates in New York City. Inresponse to this staggering statistic, Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center’s Department of Pediatrics created the Childhood Asthma Management Program in 2000. The program promotes asthma-friendly environments and ensures the delivery of integrated health care services for children with asthma through:
- clinical pediatric asthma services
- community-based activities of the New York State Department of Health-funded asthma coalition
- and hospital-community collaborative programming