Most places we take children for serious care were built for adults, and then adapted for children. Lavender Lane was built the other way round: every speciality a child might need, under one calm roof, with paediatric super-specialists working as one team. We focus on delivering therapies in a well-monitored day-care setting, helping children spend less time in hospitals and more time being kids.
Most "children's wards" are wings inside adult hospitals. The lighting is the same. The corridors are the same. The waiting rooms are the same. The way appointments are booked, the way a parent is left to coordinate between departments. All of it was designed for adult patients first.
For a healthy child, due for a routine appointment like growth or development checks, or vaccination jabs, walking in adult-oriented care spaces is an inconvenience. What makes it even more unpleasant for parents, is little knowledge and guidance about existence of paediatric super-specialities, with many children ending up consulting at a centre, primarily designed and equipped for adults. Children are not miniature adults, and thus, deserve special care from dedicated specialists, who know about their tiny bodies, the most! With all of them working around the child and family, delivering holistic care, in a child-friendly set up.
Dr. Silky Jain spent fifteen years inside such systems. Lavender Lane is what she built when she stopped accepting it.
For a child with a serious or chronic condition, treatment can often mean weeks living inside a hospital, with parents sleeping on chairs, both gradually drifting away from the essence of childhood and parenthood. Research has shown that most therapies for children, including chemotherapy, can be safely delivered in a day-care setting. We follow a day-care model whenever appropriate and safe, so your child can sleep in his/her own bed and live his/her childhood at home, rather than in a hospital.
Everything we've built (the architecture, the staffing, the protocols, the day) is in service of these four. Read them in order; they fit together.
Paediatric haemato-oncology. Pulmonology. Neurology. Gastroenterology. Endocrinology. Cardiology. Nephrology. Plus integrated diagnostics, paediatric pharmacy, day-care infrastructure, and procedure room. So your child sees the team they need, in one place, not five.
A senior specialist leads your child's care. Other specialists join when needed. They talk to each other before they talk to you, so you hear one plan, not five opinions to translate. A care navigator stays with your family from the first call to the last follow-up.
Chemotherapy, transfusions, infusions, monitored procedures, delivered in a calm day-care setting whenever clinically appropriate. So your child gets the treatment he/she needs and still sleeps in their own bed.
Soft light. Quiet corners. Play areas that are part of the clinical space, not an afterthought. A space designed from the floor up around what a child needs, not adapted from a ward that wasn't.
Senior consultants across every paediatric need
The unhurried visits that decide most of what matters
Clinical care that lets your child sleep in their own bed
Convenient in-centre medication access & in-house sample collection
"I built Lavender Lane to answer the question every parent of a seriously ill child eventually asks me: why does this have to mean weeks inside a hospital?"
Dr. Silky Jain trained as a paediatric haemato-oncologist in India and abroad. But the credential that matters most isn't on her CV.
She has sat across the table with several parents on what was, for them, the worst day of their lives. She built Lavender Lane because she believes those families, and their children, deserve a different experience of care.
From your first call to your child's last follow-up, a care navigator stays with your family. One number. One person.
A care navigator calls you back. They listen first. They don't rush you.
We collect your child's records and share them with the specialist who will see you. You don't have to start the story over.
You meet the senior specialist. If your child needs other specialists, they join the conversation. You leave with one plan, written down.
Your care navigator stays with you. Refills, reports, scheduling, questions at 9pm. One number, one person, one family.
We didn't design a clinic and add a play area. We designed a place a child would walk into willingly, and then made it clinically excellent.
Most healthcare promises are written in the passive voice. The Lavender Lane Standard is twelve specific commitments we publish quarterly. If we miss one, we say so, with our plan to fix it. Below: the four pillars that organise them.
Day-care default. Most experienced hands on every visit. Spaces designed against a paediatric standard, not adapted from adult wards.
A named care navigator within the hour. One written plan in plain language. A written cost estimate before any procedure. Second opinions, honestly given.
Specialists talk to each other before they talk to you. Hired for seniority, not throughput. The named consultant is reachable.
In-house diagnostics and paediatric pharmacy. Safety pathways written, rehearsed and posted.
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Talk to a navigatorThose are excellent institutions and we work alongside them when families need us to. You should definitely attend a hospital when in need of emergency care, but most paediatrician visits are planned ones and do not need hospitalisation.
Only when it's medically necessary. Many therapies (chemotherapy, transfusions, infusions, monitored procedures) can be delivered safely in day-care. Your child receives the treatment, is monitored carefully, and goes home the same day.
A senior specialist. Lavender Lane was built around the idea that paediatric care should be delivered by the most experienced hands, not the most available ones.
The definition of paediatrics (as per IAP guidelines) includes children less than 18 years of age. And this very well includes teenagers and adolescents. Our centre is built not just for tiny children, but also for the young generation, who often need much more counselling during sickness, owing to a special, demanding, and rapidly changing phase of life they are going through! Yes, paediatric super-specialists do cater to teenage needs!
For acute emergencies (breathing difficulty, severe bleeding, altered consciousness), go directly to the nearest emergency department. We have escalation pathways with partner hospitals and we coordinate care with their teams. Your care navigator helps you through it.
We work with major insurers and provide documentation in formats they accept. For specifics on your plan, your care navigator will walk you through coverage and out-of-pocket exposure before any procedure, never after.
Yes. Bring everything you have: reports, scans, prescriptions, biopsy slides. We'll review it carefully, give you our honest read, and tell you what we think, including, when that is the right answer, that you should continue your existing treatment.
We believe families deserve a written estimate before any procedure, not at discharge. Paediatric care is expensive everywhere, and we won't pretend otherwise. What we'll do is give you complete clarity on what each step costs, what your insurance will and won't cover, and where there are options.
When you reach out, a care navigator responds. They listen first. They don't rush you. They can answer questions about specialities, day-care, costs, insurance, or whether your child needs to be seen at all.