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