Primary and specialty care professionals cooperate to ensure comprehensive medical care. The child's clinical care s based upon accepted standards and guidelines for practice. Health care professionals obtain and utilize information about the child's developmental level in the their delivery of care. Health care professionals inform families of available resources. Health care records are developed and maintained for each child and are made available to the family by the provider or agency.
Recognition is given to cost in the delivery of services.
Examples include tertiary care centers, health maintenance organizations, private specialty care clinics or hospitals, neighborhood health centers, publicly operated specialty care programs, and home care agencies. Agency may also apply to private specialty care group practices that operate within a formal organizational structure, rather than as a loosely affiliated group of professionals. Agency operations are responsive to the needs of children and families. The agency's physical plant where services are provided is designed to meet the needs of children and their families. Diagnostic and therapeutic equipment required to meet the special needs of children is available.