Why Noah's Children?

Some of the reasons patients with life threatening or life limiting are referred to Noah’s Children include:

• A deteriorating medical condition
• A life-threatening or life-limiting illness
• Unacceptable levels of pain or other symptom distress
• Assistance for families or physicians with complex decision-making and determination of goals of care
• Uncontrolled psychosocial or spiritual issues
• A newborn at the threshold of viability
• A newborn not responding to intensive care intervention and deteriorating despite all appropriate efforts
• A fetus or newborn with a known lethal or potentially lethal congenital anomaly
• Education for child and family about the underlying disease process and prognosis
• Assistance for dying patients and their families in preparing for and managing the active dying phase of a child’s journey