Washington

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.

• Community-Based Children's Wellness Initiative
  In collaboration with multiple stakeholders, including the Washington Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, this program supports practices to become patient-centered medical home, thus enhancing care coordination and improving population health for children and youth.
• Washington State Medical Home Partnerships Project
  Washington State's electronic resource for all state projects related to medical home implementation for children and youth.

• Washington State Medical Home Leadership Network
  A statewide network of volunteer, community-based teams that promote medical home care to children and youth with special health care needs. Teams include a pediatrician, a public health nurse, and a family resource coordinator. Teams provide support and leadership to communities to assist with medical home implementation.

• 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 Washington include the following:
• Whatcom Taking Action Program

Past Activities

• Great MINDS: Medical Homes Include Developmental Screening
  In collaboration with the Washington Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, this project enhanced the rate of developmental screening within pediatric medical homes by increasing training to clinicians and parents while enhancing state policies to support and pay for medical homes.
• 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 Washington include the following:

• Improving School Readiness in Washington State Through Reach out and Read
• Successful Learning in Vulnerable Preschool Children through Improved Mental Health
• Better Regional Access for Immigrants and Refugees with Developmental Disabilities
• Parents, Peer Educators, and Head Start: Building Health Tomorrows

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

• Washington PAVE
  The Family Health Information Center and Family Voices State Affiliate of Washington provides education, information, and peer support to families of children with special health care needs.
• Washington Title V
  A profile of Washington'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.
• Washington Apple Health (Medicaid)
  State Medicaid Directors Contact Information
  Find information on Medicaid programs, resources, providers, and contacts within Washington.
• Seattle Children's Center for Children with Special Needs
  A resource center for families and caregivers of children and youth with special health care needs.
• Open Doors for Multicultural Families
  This non-profit, community based organization provides culturally and linguistically appropriate services for culturally diverse children with special health care needs and their families and caregivers.

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

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