NICH & LAUNCH REFERRAL FORM

NICH serves youth, ages birth to 18, with complex and/or chronic health conditions. NICH specifically targets the top 5% of the patient population with the highest risk (medical and psychosocial complexity), where less intensive interventions have been unsuccessful at improving the child’s health, medication management, medical care and utilization trends.

LAUNCH serves the young adult population with the same criteria and conditions as NICH. However, LAUNCH patients work with us to develop lifelong skills for self-actualized health in living with chronic illness. The focus is on transitions from pediatric to adult care, navigating systems as a new adult, and other aspects of life that can be challenging with chronic conditions with the goal of increased independence and autonomy. 

As an intensive home and community-based program, NICH assigns participating youth and their families an 'Interventionist' who provides 24/7 real-time access to...
(1) strategic family and systems interventions
(2) health systems integration and patient needs alignment
(3) resource access for family and patient optimization.
NICH Interventionists engage families via weekly home visits, daily phone/text communications, attending appointments, and can provide real-time updates to medical and community providers allowing for coordinated interventions across settings and improved management of medical regimens.

Please reach out to NICH Referral & Operations Coordinator Samareh Shadbeh (shadbeh@ohsu.edu) with any questions you might have about NICH, LAUNCH, eligibility, referral questions, or for more information.