Our District Project:

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Our District Project
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Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Institute

• Joint venture of Rocky Mountain District of
  Kiwanis International and The Childrens
  Hospital
• Started in 1994 by formal action of the Delegates
  at the District Convention as the service project
  of the Rocky Mountain District

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Medicine 1900-2008Causes of Death in Children

• THEN
• Diarrhea
• Influenza, pneumonia and bronchitis
• Infections
• Heart Disease
• Tuberculosis
• Approx. life expectancy 47 years

• NOW
• Accidents
• Cancer
• Birth defects
• Homicide
• Heart disease
• Approx. life expectancy 77.8 years

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The New Childrens Hospital

• Located on 48 acres
• Designed with clarity, comfort, and family
  centered care top of mind
• Buildings total nearly 1.5 million square feet
• 270 licensed beds
• A significant net gain from current
• Most are private
• In-room sleeping space for both parents
• Significant outdoor green space with play areas
• High technology
• Medical equipment
• Network and communications
• Patient and family entertainment options
• 16 Operating Rooms
• 49 Emergency Department Rooms
• Total Project Cost 569 Million

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WOW Facts

• Peak workforce of 1,200 construction crew
  members.
• Seven million pounds of reinforcing steel
  supports 34,000-cubic-yards of concrete.
• Two parking garages that provide protection from
  the weather for 1,200 cars.
• A 250,000-square-foot office building that houses
  physicians and their practices.
• More than 16,000 light fixtures that illuminate
  halls, patient rooms, treatment areas and
  surgeries.
• Three football fields that fit into the new
  facilitys basement. The buildings contain 842
  miles of wiring running through 238 miles of
  conduit.
• In all, there are 23 elevators moving patients,
  staff, and visitors up and down the hospitals 10
  levels.
• It took 90 tractor trailers to deliver the air
  handling units necessary for the hospital.
• Four-hundred tractor trailer loads of drywall
  were needed for the interior finishes.

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Why?
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Leading Causes of DeathChildren 1 to 14
YearsColorado, Wyoming Nebraska (2000-2004)
Source CDC, NCHS, NVSS, retrieved from WISQARS
11/20/07
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Top Causes of Unintentional Injury-Related
Deaths by AgeColorado, Wyoming Nebraska,
2000-2004
Source CDC/ NCHS/ NVSS 2000-2004
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TCH Admitted Trauma Patients, 2000-2006
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CHILDHOOD INJURY PYRAMID
Source CDC/NCHS, 2000
How do we minimize this?
1 death
32 hospitalizations
954 ED visits
1866 visits to a physicians office
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What is the Mission of KPTI?

• Prevent traumatic childhood injury through
  research and education
• Promote product safety education through
  community outreach programs
• Provide specialized training for pediatric
  emergency caregivers

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The 3 EStrategies

• Education
• Involves education of parents and children to
  change behavior to reduce the risk of accidental
  injury
• Ex. Educating parents about safety equipment
• Engineering Environment
• Involves an environmental change to reduce the
  risk of accidental injury
• Ex. Infant and child care safety seats
• Enforcement
• Involves the use of regulations and legislation
• Ex. Booster seat legislation

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How does KPTI Accomplish its Mission Using the 3
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• Education
• Teaching health professionals, service clubs,
  parents and children about injury prevention,
  including the 8 stations within the Junglemobile
• Educating parents and caregivers about the proper
  use of safety products including car seats,
  booster seats, bike helmets and first aide kits
• Increasing awareness about Shaken Baby Syndrome
  and encouraging parents to have a plan when
  caring for an infant
• Creating and providing leadership to focused
  injury prevention coalitions
• Evaluating programs to ensure good outcomes
• Engineering and Environment
• Installing crosswalks and speeding signs,
• Distributing car seats, bike helmets, first aid
  kits and other safety products
• Enforcement
• Championing new laws pertaining to children and
  their safety,
• Working with police and state patrol to enforce
  current laws

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What are the Programs of KPTI?
serving Ft. Lupton
Outreach Education
www.dontshakeababy.com
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Who does KPTI Serve?

• Kiwanians, Communities, Families in
• Colorado
• Wyoming
• Western Nebraska

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KPTI Services
Junglemobile visits 2000-2006, car seat
distributions 2002-2006, Safe Kids Denver Metro
events 2001-2006, Injury Free Coalition events
2003-2006 and KPTI outreach education 2000-2006
in the states of Colorado, Wyoming and western
Nebraska.Source End of year summaries and CPS
distribution database based on county where
service was offered, May 2007.
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What is available through KPTI?

• Discounted safety products like helmets, car
  seats, booster seats and smoke detectors
• Car seats for children with special needs
• Junglemobile visits with support for event
  planning, and working with volunteers
• Interactive safety curriculums including bike and
  pedestrian safety, helmet fitting, car seats
  trainings, fire and water safety, home safety and
  more
• Prevention materials like poster and brochures on
  safety topics and preventing Shaken Baby Syndrome
• Expertise and guidance for community needs
  assessments and safety coalition building and
  leadership
• Safety trainings and presentations for
  volunteers, medical professionals and the
  community
• Hands-on volunteer opportunities to work with
  children and their families
• Fundraising assistance through common grants and
  Childrens Miracle Network.

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What Has KPTI Done?

• Since its inception - 1994
• 15,000 bicycle helmets distributed
• 3,600 child car restraints distributed and almost
  twice as many car seats inspected
• 244 visits by the Junglemobile throughout the
  RMDK traveling 90,000 miles
• 60,000 children received safety education from
  Junglemobile
• 150 safety injury prevention education seminars
• Built 2 injury prevention coalitions
• Helped strengthen child passenger safety laws and
  other laws aimed at protecting children from
  injury
• Reached more than 1.5 million adults about Shaken
  Baby Syndrome

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Recognized as Outstanding Injury Prevention
Program

• Leslie Feuerborn nominated for Coalition
  Coordinator of the year. Safe Kids USA, November
  2007
• Theresa Rapstine selected to work with SAFE KIDS
  Worldwide to establish injury prevention
  coalitions in China, South Korea and the
  Philippines, 2005
• Outstanding Public Policy Effort National SAFE
  KIDS Campaign, 2002
• State Impact Award in recognition of outstanding
  achievement in Maternal Child Health
  Healthy Mothers /Healthy Babies Coalition, 2001
• Outstanding Service Award for Advancement of
  Child Passenger Safety, Colorado Dept. of
  Transportation, 2000

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Making a Difference!! Decline in U.S. Child
Injury Death Rate since 1987
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Source National Center for Health Statistics.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
National Vital Statistics System.
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Death Rate 2000-2004Colorado, Nebraska
WyomingChildren 0 14 Years
Source CDC, NCHS, NVSS, retrieved from WISQARS
11/20/07
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Car Seat and Seat Belt Use by Age Group in
Colorado Adults, Children 0-4 Years, 5-15 Years,
1997-2006 Source Seat belt studies conducted by
CSU for CDOT
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Unintentional Injury Hospitalizations by
RateChildren 1 - 14 YearsDenver Metro area 1996
- 2005
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2006 KPTI Donations/Revenue Sources
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Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Institute
Note Grant and Revenue are not included,
50,000/year for 2004-2006
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Whats in the Future?

• Strategic planning
• Endowed funds
• Increase focus on research and publications
• Junglemobile
• Car seats for children with special needs

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Thank you Rocky Mountain District of Kiwanis

• 667,000!

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Call to Action We still have lots of work to do!

• Educate yourself
• Teachable moments/anticipatory guidance
• Distribute products/KPTI programs
• Volunteer
• Be an advocate
• Continue to donate to the Rocky Mountain District
  Foundation
• Be a role model!

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If a disease were killing our children at the
rate unintentional injuries are, the public would
be outraged and demand that this killer be
stopped. C. Everett Koop, M.D., Sc.D.

Former Chairman, National SAFE KIDS
Campaign Former Surgeon General of the United
States