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
Disability Inclusive Vision for Engaged Research and Service for Equity (DIVERSE) Collective
Awarded: June 2022
Organization:
University of Pittsburgh Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Grant Amount: $353,202 for 24 months
Supporting States to Improve Equitable Systems of Care for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
Awarded: May 2022
Organization:
National Academy for State Health Policy
Grant Amount: $190,259 for 18 months
Barriers, Inequities, and Policy Options for Youth with Special Health Care Needs Aging Out of Public Programs
Awarded: May 2022
Organization:
National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health
Grant Amount: $233,314 for 24 months