HOW WE HELP
Helping Children Reach One Milestone After Another
If your infant or child requires daily skilled nursing care, Your Child’s Place offers individualized pediatric care and education in a friendly, safe environment. You can feel good knowing that we are licensed by the Department of Health as a Pediatric Extended Care Center and the Department of Human Services as a Child Care Center.
A team of experienced Registered Nurses and Child Care Professionals work together in a therapeutic environment to provide children with necessary medical care, in addition to educational, developmental, and social activities. Children are challenged to learn and grow in one of three classrooms that are divided according to developmental stages. Those who require speech, occupational, physical, or vision therapies may have those services delivered on site and incorporated into their day.
Sometimes, parents need support too. That’s why we provide everything from educational guidance and collaborative care to support groups and interactive training and resources.
Centrally located in Washington, PA, we facilitate services through:
- PathWays' Early Intervention program for children from birth to age 3
- An Intermediate Unit for children age 3 to school-age
- Other outpatient therapy providers
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FAQs
Contact us to determine if your child would qualify for medical daycare services. If your child meets the qualifications, we will set up a tour.
Your Child’s Place maintains contracts with 3 major insurance companies and can negotiate contracts with smaller companies to cover costs. Additionally, a child’s Medical Assistance can be utilized to compensate for services.
Once Your Child's Place has gathered a prescription for services, it will be forwarded on to the child’s insurance company for approval and authorization. The child’s insurance company will determine the medical need for your child to attend Your Child’s Place.
Your Child’s Place does not provide transportation. Each child’s parents are responsible for the transportation of their child. Children who depart the center for preschool or other educational services must coordinate transportation with the appropriate transportation company.
Yes, children may attend Your Child’s Place full-time or part-time. On days they attend, children must arrive before 10am, unless other arrangements have been made. Some insurance companies require your child to be at Your Child’s Place for a minimum of 6 hours a day.
Yes, children who attend Your Child’s Place regularly and have reached the age of 3 may begin attending outside special education programs. Under the child’s insurance company requirements, the child may receive before/after school care as long as the center can accommodate.
Children who qualify for Early Intervention and school-age programs may have their services delivered at Your Child’s Place through outside agencies. Physician-prescribed services are available based on individual need. Your Child’s Place has no Early Intervention therapists on its staff, but will help coordinate these services for families.
Your Child’s Place is open Monday through Friday from 6:30am to 6pm. We’re closed on weekends and major holidays.
The center is licensed to accommodate up to 30 children.
Your Child’s Place is dually licensed by the Department of Health, as a Pediatric Extended Care Center, and by the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services as a Child Care Center.
Your Child’s Place operates under the typical regulations set forth by the Department of Human Services regarding illnesses. The child must depart the center within 1 ½ hours of receiving a call that the child is sick and may not return for 24 hours after start of fever and/or after an antibiotic has been prescribed if applicable.
The child must remain fever free 8 hours prior to arrival and not have received any fever-reducing medications in the meantime. If the child has a communicable disease, the child must first receive authorization for return from a pediatrician or healthcare professional.