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.
• Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative
  This multi-payer initiative works to foster collaboration between public and private health care payers in order to strengthen and promote primary health care. Although this program began with an adult focus, Arkansas is working to include pediatric clinicians and primary care practices in this initiative.
• Health Care Payment Improvement Initiative
  A multi-payer initiative working to provide incentives for clinicians (including pediatric clinicians) for high quality and cost effective health care delivery.
• State Innovation Model Testing Award
  Arkansas was awarded a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid State Innovation Model Testing Award in February 2013. Through this grant, Arkansas is implementing strategies to transform a state's health care delivery system through multi-payer payment reform and additional state initiatives.
  

Past Activities

• Accelerating Improved Care for Children with Asthma Program 
  A quality improvement project, initiated by the Arkansas Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, that enhanced care for children with asthma within a pediatric medical home.
• Medical Home Arkansas
  Funded through the Health Resources and Services Administration Maternal and Child Health Bureau, this grant works to improve the access and quality of primary care for children and youth with special health care needs.
• Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program
  With funding from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, these community-based projects work to address health disparities and implement components of the pediatric medical home. Past projects in Arkansas include the following:
• Creating Opportunities to Combat Obesity in Arkansas (COCOA) Project

• Arkansas Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics
  This professional organization provides news, advocacy/legislation information, resources, and opportunities to connect with pediatric experts within Arkansas.
• Arkansas Center for Healthcare Improvement
  This non-partisan independent health policy center supports policies and programs that improve patient care, including policies specific to health care system transformation and medical home implementation.
  
• Arkansas Disability Coalition
  The Family-to-Family Health Information Center of Arkansas provides resources, peer support, education, and information to families of children with special health care needs.
• Arkansas Title V
  A profile of Arkansas' state Title V program, includes contact information for the Maternal and Child Health and the Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs Program.
• Arkansas Medicaid
  State Medicaid Directors Contact Information
  Find information on Medicaid programs, resources, providers, and contacts within Arkansas.

• Arkansas 2016 CHIP Fact Sheet
  This fact sheet provides key information about Arkansas Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) at a time when Arkansas was implementing the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization and the Affordable Care Act.
• Arkansas Medicaid Fact Sheet
  Provides information on the number of children in Arkansas 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, Arkansas State Profile, CYSHCN
  This profile summarizes pediatric medical home results from the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN), 2011/2012.
• Medical Home Data Portal, Arkansas 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 Arkansas Medical Home State Page
  This state page summarizes Medicaid and CHIP initiatives in Arkansas that promote medical home implementation.
• Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative Arkansas PCMH Map
  This state page summarizes public and private payer patient-centered medical home (PCMH) initiatives in Arkansas.