A set of one-pagers that highlight the five most utilized National Standards for Systems of Care for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) domains. Each overview defines the core component within the system of care, provides relevant quality measures, and examples of state implementation.
An independent evaluation of the California Community Care Coordination Collaborative (5Cs), a program that brings together agencies and families to identify and address local issues that arise from the painfully fragmented systems of care that California’s children with special health care needs and their families must navigate.
Mental illness is an increasingly common condition among California’s children, yet the state lacks a coherent system of care. In 2018, the California Children’s Hospital Association (CCHA) convened a workgroup to discuss this emerging crisis, and now has released a report offering recommendations for action. CCHA President & CEO Ann-Louise Kuhns, discusses the report and what needs to be done.
Family Voices developed an assessment tool for measuring family engagement in health care systems and created supporting materials to assist in the recruitment of and meaningful engagement with families to improve systems of care, programs, and policies.
Hear from two statewide projects – a parent leadership training program and a hospital learning collaborative – that are integrating families as equal partners in addressing system issues. They discuss what it really takes to foster an effective and sustainable collaboration.
This webinar on family needs for home health care and potential workforce and policy solutions features the perspectives of a parent advocate, a home health care administrator, a pediatrician, and a state official.
Medicaid services for children with special health care needs (CSHCN) are provided inconsistently across the country, often with negative outcomes for children and families. This new report from Manatt Health highlights eight strategies that state Medicaid agencies can implement to improve access to services and health care for CSHCN covered by Medicaid.
Many children with medical complexity receive care in home and community-based settings. These services may be covered using Medicaid waivers. Authors of the article evaluated how states use these waivers to provide coverage to children with medical complexity and determine services offered. The findings indicate great variability in how states interpret scope of coverage and services and how this variability could impact child and family outcomes.
In many states, home and community-based services are covered for children with medical complexity through Medicaid waivers. Authors of the article developed a systematic and reproducible approach to evaluate the waivers for overall coverage of children with medical complexity in different states.
