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National Center of Medical Home Initiatives for Children with
Special Needs provides support to physicians, families, and
other medical and non-medical providers who care for children
with special needs so that they have access to a medical home. |
deadline: july 31, 2008
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GOT DATA?
Now available online:
MCHB's National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs Chartbook 2005-2006
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Do You Know
who your F2F HIC is?
Family to Family Health Information Centers are now in 41 states, and counting.
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Read the Medical Home Series Featured in EP Magazine:
Over 9 installments, readers have learned more about Amita and Samir and their daughter, Anjali, a fictional family. The final article, published in June 2008, focuses on transition to adulthood.
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Every child deserves a medical home.
The American Academy of Pediatrics describes the medical home as a model of delivering primary care that is accessible, continuous, comprehensive, family-centered, coordinated, compassionate, and culturally effective care.
In March 2007, a consensus statement on medical home principles was developed and jointly endorsed by ACP, AAFP, AOA, and AAP.
Understanding the unique needs of children and families, the Academy wishes to highlight certain critical pediatric medical home principles:
- Family-centered partnership: Trusting, collaborative, working partnership with families, respecting their diversity and recognizing that they are the constant in a child’s life
- Community-based system:
Family centered- coordinated network designed to promote the healthy development and well being of children and their families
- Transitions:
Provision of high-quality, developmentally appropriate, health care services that continue uninterrupted as the individual moves along and within systems of services and from adolescence to adulthood
- Value:
A high-performance health care system requires appropriate financing to support and sustain medical homes that promote system-wide quality care with optimal health outcomes, family satisfaction, and cost efficiency
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Bright Futures has a
new website!
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