FOCUS AREA
Systems and Standards
We advance health care system standards to ensure high-quality, comprehensive care for children with special health care needs.
Why It's Important
System standards provide guidance health care professionals to improve processes and systems that serve children with special health care needs. Standards help strengthen care and provide benchmarks by which to assess improvements in quality and health outcomes.
Our Approach
We advance health care systems and standards to promote comprehensive care for children with special health care needs. We encourage the development of system standards and help identify best practices in health care organization, financing, and quality. Our priorities include:
- Ensuring essential benefits for CSHCN within managed care contracts
- Determining performance improvement priorities
- Guiding health system development and strategic planning
- Building partnerships to monitor access to and quality of care
Recently Awarded Grants
Pediatric-to-Adult Health Care Transition Quality Measurement
Awarded: November 2020
Organization:
The National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health
Grant Amount: $50,000 for 12 months
Advancing a Family-Centered Evidence-Base for Pediatric Home Health Care
Awarded: July 2020
Organization:
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Grant Amount: $196,832 for 24 months
Advancing National Standards for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
Awarded: June 2020
Organization:
National Academy for State Health Policy
Grant Amount: $262,601 for 18 months