Healthy Care for Healthy Kids

A project to reduce childhood obesity by enabling pediatric primary care practices to prevent, identify and treat overweight children.

Status: Inactive
December 2004 to May 2006

Who

The collaborative involved 18 Massachusetts-based pediatric practices and community health centers.

Our Role

Convened an expert panel to develop a care model for the treatment of pediatric overweight/obesity and a curriculum for teaching pediatric practices how to implement the model. Facilitated a Breakthrough Series learning collaborative for practices to learn how to use quality improvement methodology to implement the care model.

Funder

This project was funded by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.

Other Information

The Healthy Care for Healthy Kids project was successful in establishing a standard model of care for the prevention and identification of overweight children in pediatric and family practices. The model can be successfully implemented in the annual well-child visit and offers a first step in the treatment of overweight children. 

Project Impact

reduction in severe maternal morbidity from hemorrhage among Black women
(Louisiana PQC, 2018-2020)
people involved in something
exciting things in progress

External Resources

State Perinatal Quality Collaboratives

List of PQCs funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

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The Power of PQCs

Video showing the impact that PQCs have on the communities they serve. Produced by the NNPQC.

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PQCs in the News

Articles in news outlets covering state PQCs, their activities, and the people that work in the collaboratives.

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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.

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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.

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Related Content

Resources produced by the Healthy Care for Healthy Kids 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.”

Stacy Scott, PhD, MPA
Executive Project Director and Equity Lead at NICHQ