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.

• Advancing the Pediatric Medical Home Model: Patient Care Networks of Alabama and Regional Care Organizations
  Implemented by Alabama Medicaid, these two programs establish community networks to provide comprehensive primary care services in Alabama.
• Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama Primary Care Select
  This program allows pediatric and adult clinicians to earn points toward value-based payment based on criteria consistent with the medical home model of care.
  

Past Activities

• Accelerating Improved Care for Children with Asthma Program
  A quality improvement project, implemented by the Alabama Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, that enhanced care for children with asthma within a pediatric medical home.
• Alabama Health Improvement Initiative Medical Home Pilot
  Supported by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, this initiative involved 14 practices working to achieve medical home recognition from 2009 – 2011.

• Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program Grantees
  With funding from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, these community-based projects work to address health disparities and implement components of the pediatric medical home. Projects in Alabama include the following:
• Continuity for Medical Care for Foster Children in Jefferson County, AL
• Mobile TEEN (Teens Empowered through Education and Nurturing) Center

• Alabama Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics
  This professional organization provides news, advocacy/legislation information, resources, and opportunities to connect with pediatric experts within Alabama.
• Alabama Child Health Improvement Alliance
  Facilitated by the University of Alabama at Birmingham, this initiative supports 6 to 12 month quality improvement initiatives in pediatric practices, including those related to pediatric medical home.
  

• Family Voices of Alabama
  A Family-to-Family Health Information Center, this organization provides resources, peer support, education, and information to families of children with special health care needs.
• Alabama Title V
  A profile of Alabama'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.
• Alabama Medicaid
  State Medicaid Directors Contact Information
  Find information on Medicaid programs, resources, providers, and contacts within Alabama.

• Alabama 2016 CHIP Fact Sheet
  This fact sheet provides key information about Alabama's Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) at a time when Alabama was implementing the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act and the Affordable Care Act.

• Alabama Medicaid Fact Sheet
  This fact sheet provides information on the number of children in Alabama 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: Alabama 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, Alabama State 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 Alabama Medical Home State Page
  This state page summarizes Medicaid and CHIP initiatives in Alabama that promote medical home implementation. 

• Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative Alabama PCMH Map
  This state page summarizes public and private payer patient-centered medical home (PCMH) initiatives in Alabama.