Albany Med is one of only two hospitals in New York State offering a specialized car seat program to families with medically fragile infants and children.
Often these children, because of special positioning needs, low muscle tone or other developmental issues, are unable to be placed in a traditional car seat, leaving families who are going home from the hospital and don’t have access to a specialized car seat with only one legal option: calling a cab. Children are legally permitted to travel in a taxi without the aid of a car seat; for all other forms of motor vehicle travel, however, a car seat is mandatory for children under eight.
Albany Med’s Car Seat Program allows families to bypass this issue by loaning them a car seat tailored to their child’s condition, often for the full duration of time the seat is needed. A child passenger safety specialist provides families with a car seat and car safety education at the bedside and, later, accompanies parents to their car, installs the seat, and answers any questions they have as they are leaving the hospital.
The program is staffed by occupational therapists, a physician, a nurse and a trauma specialist—all certified child passenger safety technicians—as well as a certified child passenger safety technician/instructor for Albany County. Together, they serve a wide range of medically fragile children, including preemies and other infants discharged from Albany Med’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, children who have sustained...
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