Alaska

Current Activities

• Medical Home Chapter Champions Program on Asthma, Allergy, and Anaphylaxis
  This program supports the facilitation and dissemination of best practices, evidence-based guidelines, and resources in asthma, allergy, and anaphylaxis for clinicians throughout the state.
• Alaska Patient-Centered Medical Home Initiative
  Administered by the Alaska Primary Care Association, this project supports community health centers with medical home implementation.
  

Past Activities

• Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act Quality Demonstration Grants
  Alaska was a partner on one of 10 grants funded to improve health care quality and delivery systems for children enrolled in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

• Alaska Health Care Commission Patient Centered Medical Home Webinar Series
  The Alaska Health Care Commission hosted a 3-part webinar series in which a selection of early adopters of the medical home model participated in a panel discussion about their experience, challenges, and successes.

• Alaska Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics
  This professional organization provides news, advocacy/legislation information, resources, and opportunities to connect with pediatric experts within Alaska.
• Alaska Primary Care Association
  A membership organization of Alaska's safety-net primary care providers. This organization works on multiple initiatives to support medical home implementation for clinicians and practices who care for pediatric populations.
  
• The Stone Soup Group: Family Voices of Alaska
  The Family-to-Family Health Information Center and Family Voices State Affiliate Organization of Alaska provides resources, peer support, education, and information to families of children with special health care needs.
• Alaska Title V
  A profile of Alaska's state Title V program, includes contact information for the Maternal and Child Health and the Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs Program.
• Alaska Medicaid
  State Medicaid Directors Contact Information
  Find information on Medicaid programs, resources, providers, and contacts within Alaska.
• All Alaska Pediatric Partnership
  A non-profit organization that works to enhance care coordination for children and youth in Alaska. In particular, this organization works to connect medical, community, and government resources available for families of children and youth with special health care needs.

• Alaska 2016 CHIP Fact Sheet
  This fact sheet provides key information about Alaska's Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
• Alaska Medicaid Fact Sheet
  Provides information on the number of children in Alaska eligible, enrolled, and unenrolled in Medicaid.
• State at-a-glance Chartbook on Coverage and Financing for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
  This chartbook provides state specific data on select indicators of health coverage and financing for children and youth with special health care needs.
• Medical Home Data Portal: Alaska State Profile, CYSHCN
  This profile summarizes pediatric medical home results from the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN), 2009/2010.
• Medical Home Data Portal, Alaska State Profile, All Children
  This profile summarizes pediatric medical home results from the National Survey of Children's Health, 2007.
• National Academy for State Health Policy Alaska Medical Home State Page
  This state page summarizes Medicaid and CHIP initiatives in Alaska that promote medical home implementation.
• Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative Alaska PCMH Map
  This state page summarizes public and private payer patient-centered medical home (PCMH) initiatives in Alaska.