Brief ReportCoordinating Care for Obese Latino Youth to Improve Visit Adherence

- The primary care providers made 111 referrals to the multidisciplinary pediatric weight management clinic from January 2013 to August 2013.
- The seamless care coordination between providers supports patients and their families in their efforts to receive effective health care.
- The success of our referral process and increase in patients actively engaged in care is believed in part to be the result of improved access to needed care.

The increase in childhood obesity is cause for concern for health care providers. Childhood obesity disproportionately affects Latino youth compared with all other ethnic groups. In this report, we describe care coordination between a pediatric medical home with a majority Latino population and a tertiary pediatric weight management clinic that led to increased access to care.