Children’s Asthma Management

Children’s Asthma Management at Winchester Hospital

Winchester Hospital’s Community and Hospital Asthma Management Program (CHAMP) is an educational pediatric asthma program. This free program provides a team approach to managing children’s asthma.

What is CHAMP?

The purpose of CHAMP is to:

• Reduce missed days from school
• Reduce emergency visits and asthma-related inpatient admissions
• Improve your child’s lung function
• Educate your child and your family about asthma

Meet the CHAMP Care Team

Managing your child's asthma is a team effort. Your CHAMP team consists of:

• Your child and family
• Physician
• Certified asthma educator or nurse
• Inpatient pediatric staff
• Licensed respiratory therapist
• Emergency department staff
• School nurse

How CHAMP Can Help

CHAMP can help you and your child learn more about:

• Controlling exposure to factors that trigger asthma episodes
• Collaborating with children, families, health care professionals and the public through education
• Teaching children with asthma to become partners in their care
• Effectively managing asthma with medicine
• Using realistic measures of lung function to monitor asthma

What to Expect During CHAMP

CHAMP consists of:

• Three home visits by a certified asthma educator
• An individualized asthma action plan
• Evaluation of and education about correct use of inhalers, spacers, peak flow meters and nebulizers
• Providing your child and your family with a peak flow asthma diary/asthma signs diary
• Involving school personnel and other care providers with your child’s asthma action plan and peak flow information