Helping Children Come Home

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If parents can get the child home, they can get further help for acute care, which insurance companies pay for from a different pool of money. Strebeck came to Norco after having been a respiratory therapist at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children's Hospital for nine years, with most of her experience in the neonatal and pediatric ICUs, and the pediatric emergency room.

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Helping Children Come Home

Respiratory therapist Rebecca Strebeck has developed a specialty here of helping children suffering from' respiratory failure to come home from the hospital.

Often, she turns their bedrooms into residential versions of intensive-care units.

"Having a baby on a ventilator is. not the end of the world," says Strebeck, who works in the m...

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