Ohio

• Interview with "Hospital to Medical Home"
  "Hospital to Medical Home" is a Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program (HTPCP) located in Toledo, Ohio. The program's director recently shared the clinic's strategies and successes in measuring the impact of the project's activities with the National Center for Medical Home Implementation (National Center).

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.

• Advancing the Medical Home Model in Pediatrics: Ohio State Innovation Model Testing Grant
  In 2014 Ohio was awarded a two-year State Innovation Model Testing Grant. Two components of the grant include a patient-centered medical home program and an episode-based payment initiative.
  
• Ohio Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
  A state-wide collaborative that includes clinicians, payers, and consumer advocates to enhance patient-centered primary care within Ohio.
• 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. Current projects in Ohio include the following:

• Promoting Home Safety for Young Children through Collaborative Community Partnerships
• Education and Sleep Equipment: The Injury Prevention Learning Collaborative with Pediatrician

 Past Activities

• Ohio Patient-Centered Medical Home Education Project
  This project focused on assisting 44 practices in Ohio to transform to medical home through the education and training of clinicians, including physicians and nurses, in the principles of patient-centered medical home.
• 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 Ohio include the following:

• Improving Amish Children's Access to Healthcare
• Hospital to Medical Home Project
• Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children of Toledo, Ohio
• Rural Interdisciplinary Developmental Assessment Clinic
• The Communication Action for Playground Safety Program
• Toledo Healthy Tomorrows
• CFHS Pediatric Tracking Program
• Collaboration for Healthier Children

• Ohio Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics
  This professional organization provides news, advocacy/legislation information, resources, and opportunities to connect with pediatric experts within Ohio.
• Ohio Family to Family Health Information Center
  The Family Health Information Center and Family Voices State Affiliate Organization of Ohio provides education, information, and peer support to families of children with special health care needs.
• Ohio Title V
  A profile of Ohio'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.
• Ohio Medicaid
  State Medicaid Directors Contact Information
  Find information on Medicaid programs, resources, providers, and contacts within Ohio.
• RedTreeHouse.org
  A collaborative effort between the Ronald McDonald House of Cleveland and Ohio Family and Children First, this online resource promotes and supports physical, emotional, and intellectual wellbeing of children and young adults, including those with special health care needs.
  
• Special Needs Resource Directory of Southwest Ohio
  Create by the complex care center of Cincinnati Children's Hospital, this resource center is created to connect families and caregivers of children with complex conditions to community resources and health information.

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

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