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.

• Alliance for Innovation on Maternal and Child Health Learning Collaborative
  Utah is participating in the Maternal and Child Health Bureau funded Alliance for Innovation on Maternal and Child Health Learning Collaborative. As part of this initiative, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) gathered information related to access to care and coverage issues from patient/family and clinician perspectives in Utah. In addition, the AAP reviewed current Utah Early Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment requirements to compare the services offered with the services recommended within the Bright Futures Guidelines for Health Supervision.
  
• Utah Pediatric Partnership to Improve Healthcare Quality
  A collaborative effort to improve child health quality across the state of Utah through multiple improvement projects. Current projects include an initiative focusing on toxic stress in the context of medical home.

 Past Activities

• Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act Quality Demonstration Grants
  Utah 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).

• Children's Healthcare Improvement Collaborative (CHIC)
  A partnership between Idaho and Utah to implement of pediatric medical homes for rural populations.

• 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 Texas include the following:

• Ninos Especiales/Familias Fuertas (Special Children/ Strong Families)

• El Programa de Las Promotoras: Lay Health Workers in an Indigent Clinic

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

• Utah Family Voices Health Information Center
  The Family Health Information Center and Family Voices State Affiliate Organization of Utah provides education, information, and peer support to families of children with special health care needs.
• Utah Title V
  A profile of Utah'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.
• Utah Medicaid
  State Medicaid Directors Contact Information
  Find information on Medicaid programs, resources, providers, and contacts within Utah.
• Medical Home Portal: Utah
  This state portal provides information for child health professionals and families on community services and resources available for children and youth with special health care needs.
• Utah State University Center for Persons with Disabilities
  Provides multiple resources and connections within Utah and the surrounding states for children, adults, and families with special health care needs.
• Utah Parent Center
  A peer-support organization that trains parents of children with special needs to serve as peer resources through telephone support, workshops, annual conferences, and electronic communications.

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

• Utah Medicaid Fact Sheet
  Provides information on the number of children in Utah 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, Utah 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, Utah Profile, All Children
  This profile summarizes pediatric medical home results from the National Survey of Children's Health, 2007.
• Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative Utah PCMH Map
  This state page summarizes public and private payer patient-centered medical home (PCMH) initiatives in Utah.