H2H-TCI vs. H2H-TCIHospital-to-Home Transitional Care Interventions (H2H-TCI) Children/Youth With Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN)

Inclusion Criteria:

• For this study, eligible children/youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) and adult parent/caregiver dyads will be those who meet the following inclusion criteria:

1. Child is a CYSHCN, defined as having seen two or more distinct specialty areas for outpatient visits during the 12 months prior to index hospitalization admission date
2. Age of hospitalized child is under 18 years old
3. Child hospitalized on a general pediatrics inpatient service line at participating site
4. Adult parent/caregiver for the child is 18 years or older

Exclusion Criteria:

• Child exclusion criteria:

1. Child will be discharged to any location besides home (e.g., long-term care or residential facility, skilled nursing facility, inpatient acute rehabilitation, psychiatric facility)
2. Child is a ward of the state or has an ongoing social services investigation
3. Child is already receiving transitional care, intensive longitudinal care coordination (e.g., organ/disease-specific clinical program, clinical division within the same institution as the hospital \[e.g., Children's Complex Care Program at UNC; Complex Care Service at Duke\]), and/or longitudinal population health care coordination as part of a bundled alternative payment care model.

• Parent/caregiver exclusion criteria include:

1. Age less than 18 years old
2. Diminished capacity to provide consent/participate
3. Primary language for parent/caregiver is any language besides English or Spanish