There are no announcements at this time.

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.

• Primary Care Access and Stabilization Grant
  This grant works with multiple health care settings, including Federally Qualified Health Centers and primary care practices, to implement coordinated, culturally competent, family-centered care.
• Bayou Health Networks
  A Medicaid Managed Care program which establishes networks to improve access to and quality of primary care services, with specific provisions for the pediatric population.
• Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum
  A volunteer based organization that promotes health information technology, quality measurement, and medical home. The organization published a Medical Home Implementation Resource Tool Kit.

Past Activities

• Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program
  With funding from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, these community-based projects address health disparities and implement components of the pediatric medical home. Past projects in Louisiana include the following:

• Project HOPE Parenting Center Home Visitation Project
• First Steps Primary Prevention Program

• Louisiana Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics
  This professional organization provides news, advocacy/legislation information, resources, and opportunities to connect with pediatric experts within Louisiana.
• Bayou Land Families Helping Families
  The Family-to-Family Health Information Center and Family Voices State Affiliate Organization of Louisiana provides resources, peer support, education, and information to families of children with special health care needs.
• Louisiana Title V
  A profile of Louisiana'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.

• Louisiana Medicaid
  State Medicaid Directors Contact Information
  Find information on Medicaid programs, resources, providers, and contacts within Louisiana.

• Louisiana 2014 CHIP Fact Sheet
  This fact sheet provides key information about Louisiana's Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) at a time when Louisiana was implementing the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization and the Affordable Care Act.

• Louisiana Medicaid Fact Sheet
  Provides information on the number of children in Louisiana 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, Louisiana 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, Louisiana 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 Louisiana Medical Home State Page
  This state page summarizes Medicaid and CHIP initiatives in Louisiana that promote medical home implementation.
• Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative Louisiana PCMH Map
  This state page summarizes public and private payer patient-centered medical home (PCMH) initiatives in Louisiana.