Collaborative on the Medical Home for Children with Special Healthcare Needs
A project to improve the quality of care for children with special health care needs and their families by implementing the medical home model in primary care practices. The projects also sought to build capacity in Title V agencies to sustain and spread the medical home model in primary care practices in their states.
Who
The project involved 11 Title V teams and 30 primary care practices
Our Role
Lead a Breakthrough Series learning collaborative to apply quality improvement methodology to implementing a medical home model of care. Provide an environment for rapid-cycle testing and the robust exchange of ideas with the support of world-class medical home and quality improvement experts.
Funder
The project was funded by the United States Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau and conducted in partnership with the Center for Medical Home Improvement.
Other Information
The project led to decreased hospitalization among children and youth with special healthcare needs, increased capabilities in Title V, improved implementation of the medical home in pediatric practices, and greater participation of parents in their child’s care, and the design of the primary care practice, and community and state services.
Project Impact
External Resources
State Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
List of PQCs funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The Power of PQCs
Video showing the impact that PQCs have on the communities they serve. Produced by the NNPQC.
PQCs in the News
Articles in news outlets covering state PQCs, their activities, and the people that work in the collaboratives.
Patient Safety Bundles
From the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health. PSBs are collections of evidence-informed best practices that address clinically specific conditions in pregnant and postpartum people. The NNPQC helps provide TA and support to PQCs in adopting the core AIM Perinatal Mental Health Bundle.
Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
The CDC’s landing page for PQCs, including helpful infographics, videos, and links to help explain what PQCs are, how they work, and stories, learnings, and publications that have come out of the state PQCs.
Related Content
Resources produced by the Collaborative on the Medical Home for Children with Special Healthcare Needs project or on related topics
Meet Our Team
“In our deep organizational work to move along the Equity Systems Continuum from a Savior-Designed System to an Equity-Empowered System, we acknowledge the power of action. The potential is limitless for today’s commitments to improve the systems in which health care and public health professionals work and families receive care.”
