Moving into adulthood with a chronic medical condition that you’ve had since you were a child can come with new worries. The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center provides multiple clinics and programs to make this transition from pediatric to adult care easier.
Many of these programs support ongoing connections to your already-trusted pediatric providers while you build new connections with adult-care providers at the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center. Your new combined team of medical specialists will partner with you and your family to help you:
- Build independence and responsibility
- Learn more about your condition and how it might change as you age
- Adjust or add treatment plans to match your adult body and adult goals
- Improve your overall health and wellness
- Reinforce your own choices and family values
Ohio State Complex Care Program
Complex Care Clinic
Coordinating your outpatient care across a team of experts from different medical specialties to address all aspects of your pediatric-onset complex condition now that you’re an adult.
- Co-directors: Katrina Johnson, MD and Jessica Prokup, MD
- Case manager: Amy Poling, MSN Ed, RN, LSN
- Location: Martha Morehouse Outpatient Care
Complex Care Inpatient Services
Adding a layer of important oversight from a hospital-based team who will make sure your complex condition is understood and factored into any treatment decisions during and after your hospitalization or emergency department stay.
- Director: Katrina Johnson, MD
- Co-directors: Kelly Grannan, MD, and Christy Mulligan, MD
- Case manager: Amy Poling, MSN, RN
- Locations: East Hospital and University Hospital
Complex Care for Congenital Heart Disease Transition Program
Helping you move to an adult primary care setting while maintaining and coordinating treatment plans with your cardiologist and other pediatric and adult specialists you already know and trust.
- Clinic director: Katrina Johnson, MD
- Locations: Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Grandview and Martha Morehouse Outpatient Care
Specialized transitional care programs at Ohio State
Center for Autism Services and Transition (CAST)
CAST provides specialized primary care services for teens and adults who have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.
- Medical director: Christopher Hanks, MD
- Multiple locations across central Ohio
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Transition and Lifespan Clinic
Helping people with physical or developmental disabilities that started in childhood be as healthy and independent as possible as they age and move to an adult physical rehabilitation setting.
- Clinic director: Jessica Prokup, MD
- Location: Ohio State Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in Martha Morehouse Outpatient Care