Resources

Implementing a Children's Healthcare Access Program (CHAP) - A Community Toolkit
The purpose of this toolkit is to guide comunities in their eforts to implement Children’s Healthcare Aces Programs (CHAP) and pediatric medical homes. The intended audience is CHAP programanagers, medical directors and other staff who are responsible for program implementation. The toolkit is also intended for Great Start Colaboratives who are interested in assessing whether the model is appropriate for their communities.

The focus of Child Health Day 2009 was "Every Child Deserves a Medical Home." To recognize Child Health Day, the National Center for Medical Home Implementation produced a video compilation featuring children, families, and providers across the country who illustrate the value and importance of medical home for all children and youth. You can view the video and other resources from Child Health Day, including coloring sheets and flyers, on the National Center's Web site at http://www.medicalhomeinfo.org/about/ChildHealthDay2009.html. 

http://www.pediatricmedhome.org/
Building your Medical Home Toolkit, AAP-NCQA, June 2009

http://www.medicalhomeinfo.org/joint%20Statement.pdf
Joint Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home March 2007

http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/pediatrics;110/1/184.pdf
American Academy of Pediatrics, policy statement on Medical Home.

http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/CDPHE-MedicalHome/CMH/1197882655931
Medical Home Initiative, Colorado

http://www.communitycarenc.com/
Community Care of North Carolina, Medical Home

http://www.aafp.org/online/etc/medialib/
Evaluation of Community Care of North Carolina

http://www.nashp.org/_docdisp_page.cfm
This is the result of a scan of state Medicaid and SCHIP efforts to advance medical homes. NASHP identified a wide variety of efforts with implementation dates reaching back to the 1990s. Of these, a total of 34 initiatives in 31 states were identified as recent state efforts to advance medical homes for Medicaid or SCHIP program participants.

http://www.pcpcc.net/content/patient-centered-medical-home
Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC), Medical Home

http://ruralhealth.hrsa.gov/reports/2009_NAC.pdf
Creating Viable Medical Homes in Rural Areas (pages 15-25)

http://www.nashp.org/Files/shpbriefing_pcmhsavings.pdf
Supporting the Patient Centered Medical Home in Medicaid and SCHIP: Savings and Reimbursement

http://www.adfammed.org/documents/MedicalHome.pdf
The Medical Home:  Disruptive Innovation for a New Primary Care Model

http://www.hschange.org/CONTENT/1030/1030.pdf
Making Medical Homes Work:  Moving from Concept to Practice, December 2008

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/123/2/e369
A Review of the Evidence for the Medical Home for Children with Special Health Care Needs

http://region4genetics.org/region4/_docs/handouts011108.pdf
Medical Home Materials Inventory for Children with Special Health Care Needs

Health Reform

http://www.healthreform.gov/  
White House on Health Reform.

http://www.firstfocus.net/Download/SidebySide_HealthReform.pdf
How do children fare in health reform proposals?

http://www.kff.org/insurance/upload/7692_02.pdf
Trends in Health Care Costs and Spending

http://edlabor.house.gov/documents/111/pdf/publications/
America’s Affordable Health Choices Act 2009  Summary

http://www.nccp.org/publications/pdf/text_860.pdf
Making Maternal and Child Health Care a Priority, National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP), Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, March 2009.

Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act 2009 (CHIPRA)

https://www.policyarchive.org/   CHIPRA 101:  Overview of the CHIP Reauthorization Legislation

Oral Health

http://www.nashp.org/files/Dental_Reimbursements.pdf
Increasing Access to Dental Care in Medicaid: Targeted Programs for Four Populations.  This policy briefing describes strategies that several states have used to better address the oral health needs of 4 groups of Medicaid enrollees: young children, pregnant women, people with developmental disabilities and people living in rural areas.

Assuring Better Child Health and Development (ABCD)

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/Files/Publications/
State Policy Options to Improve Delivery of Child development Services:  Strategies from the Eight ABCD States

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/Files/Publications/
The North Carolina ABCD Project:  A new approach for providing developmental services in primary care practice

Medical Home in Michigan

“(A) Medical Home is not a building, house or hospital. It is an approach to providing health care services in a high-quality and cost effective manner. Medical Home is as much an attitude as it is a way of delivering care: families are recognized as the principal caregivers and the center of strength and support for children”  -- Small Steps, Big Differences, New England Serve

Wayne CHAP - Building A Children's Medical Home for Detroit and Wayne County
Click here to see their brochure.

Children’s Healthcare Access Program (Medical Home Pilot in Kent County)
The Children’s Healthcare Access Program is based on the premise that all children deserve to have access to quality care.  Between 14,000 and 15,000 Kent County children are participating in a one-year pilot project that commenced on August 1, 2008.  All participants in the pilot project are enrolled in Priority Health Medicaid.  Priority Health is increasing the Medicaid reimbursement for sick child office visits at private practices.  In exchange, the practices are accepting additional Medicaid patients.  In addition, more patients have access to expanded evening and weekend hours and same-day open appointments at community clinics.  Children and their families are receiving home-based support services, including linkage with community resources, nurse case management, free transportation and intensive asthma case management.
Eight healthcare providers in Kent County are participating in the pilot project:

• ABC Pediatrics
• Alger Pediatrics
• Cherry Street Health Center
• Forest Hills Pediatrics
• Grand Rapids Pediatrics
• Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital General Pediatrics Clinic
• Kent Pediatrics
• Westside Health Center

The Children’s Healthcare Access Program is modeled after similar initiatives in other states that have led to both healthier children and cost savings in the delivery of healthcare.  The Children’s Healthcare Access Program hopes to demonstrate that by providing publicly insured children in Kent County with a high-quality, consistent medical home we can have healthier kids while reducing costs to the community.

Click here for more information.