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
Addressing Clinical Challenges in the Care of Children with Neurodisability and Medical Complexity
Awarded: May 2021
Organization:
Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
Grant Amount: $64,666 for 12 months
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Continuity Strategies Conference and Guidelines Formulation
Awarded: February 2021
Organization:
Columbia University Medical Center
Grant Amount: $155,636 for 12 months
Pediatric-to-Adult Health Care Transition Quality Measurement
Awarded: November 2020
Organization:
National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health
Grant Amount: $50,000 for 12 months