Champions for Exceptional and Accessible
Health Care for Mid-Michigan Children

As a leader in pediatric medicine, child advocacy, medical training, and health research, MSU is working with partners across the university and community to develop an innovative, efficient and sustainable new model for specialized child health care delivery here in mid-Michigan. This approach will be family-centered, focused on the understanding that all family members are impacted when a child is catastrophically or chronically ill.

Community-based

• Responding to the real needs of this community
• Bringing together this community's unique resources -- a teaching university, state government, hospitals, charities and care providers
• Guided by local stakeholders, including community and university leaders, health care professionals, policy makers, governmental agencies, child advocates and consumers
• Contributing to the sustainability of mid-Michigan as a family-friendly and economically viable community

Collaborative

• Developing partnerships
• Promoting inter-disciplinary care, research and education
• Building on existing strengths

Sustainable

• Establishing the MSU Scores for Kids Endowment to augment traditional revenue sources to recruit and retain world-class pediatric specialists to practice, conduct research, teach and live in our community; and the Teddy Bear Relief Fund offering support to families who visit existing Lansing-based clinics.