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.

• Maine Patient-Centered Medical Home Pilot
  This pilot project supports pediatric practices as they work to transform to patient-centered medical homes through learning collaboratives, practice coaches, and consultation with key experts.
• MaineCare Accountable Communities Initiative
  This Medicaid program strengthens primary care and improves transitions of care for Medicaid beneficiaries in Maine, including children and youth with special health care needs.
• Maine Health Home State Plan Amendment
  Working closely with the Maine Patient-Centered Medical Home Pilot, this health home program provides comprehensive, continuous, coordinated care to Medicaid beneficiaries with chronic conditions.
• Maine Child Health improvement Partnership
  This project works to optimize the health of all children in Maine through public/private partnerships that measure quality improvement.
• Developmental Systems Integration Project
  This project focuses on cross-sector integration and care coordination to ensure the health and development of all children and youth in Maine. Partners include the Maine Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
• State Innovation Model Testing Award
  Maine was awarded a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid State Innovation Model Testing Award in February 2013. Through this grant, Maine is implementing strategies to transform a state's health care delivery system through multi-payer payment reform and additional state initiatives.

Past Activities

• Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act: Quality Demonstration Project
  Maine was the lead 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).

• 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 Maine include the following:
• Collaborate for Kids
• Homeless and At-risk Youth Health Services
• Pediatric Partnership for Protect Children in Two Maine Counties

• Maine Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics
  This professional organization provides news, advocacy/legislation information, resources, and opportunities to connect with pediatric experts within Maine.

• New Directions for Maine Families
  The Family Voices State Affiliate Organization of Maine provides resources, peer support, education, and information to families of children with special health care needs.
• Maine Parent Federation
  The Family-to-Family Health Information Center for Maine, this organization provides one-on-one telephone support and referral to parents and families of children and youth with special health care needs.
• Maine Title V
  A profile of Maine'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.
• Maine Medcaid (MaineCare)
  State Medicaid Directors Contact Information
  Find information on Medicaid programs, resources, providers, and contacts within Maine.
• Maine Quality Counts
  A multi-disciplinary organization of clinicians and policy advocates working to improve the quality of health care delivery in Maine. Multiple initiatives focus on the pediatric population.

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

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