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 Medical
Homes in Colorado
This page is designed to keep you informed about
events and activities happening in Colorado that will help
improve access to medical homes for children with special
health care needs (CSHCN).
Click on a topic below to learn more about what's
going on in Colorado
Medical Home Initiatives
This section
provides information on state medical home initiatives/programs.
States that are a part of the mentorship
network will have a "Promise to the State"
which outlines how they will achieve ensuring that all children
have a medical home by 2010. This is based on the Healthy
People 2010 goals which is a 10 year action plan to
achieve and
measure
success for all CSHCN.
Colorado
Medical Home State Contact:
Name:
Kathy Watters, Director Health Care Program for
Children with Special Needs
Contact: Phone: 303 692-2418 | Email:
kathy.watters@state.co.us
State Team: Roster
COLORADO'S
"VISION" FOR MEDICAL HOME Adobe
PDF 
A Medical Home is not just a building, house or hospital,
but a team approach to providing health care. A Medical
Home originates in a primary health care setting that is
family-centered and compassionate. A partnership develops
between the family and the primary health care practitioner.
Together they access all medical and non-medical services
needed by the child and family to achieve maximum potential.
The Medical Home maintains a centralized, comprehensive
record of all health related services to promote continuity
of care.
Children with special health care needs (CSHCN) may have
many professionals invested in their physical and emotional
well-being. Coordination of care is an essential activity
to assure communication and planning amongst team members,
including family, primary health care practitioners, specialists,
community programs and insurance plans.
Colorado has a Medical Home Advisory Board since 2000
Adobe PDF
(COMING SOON)
Medical Home Strategic
Planning Team Adobe PDF
Colorado was
selected to be part of the National NICHQ Medical Home Learning
Collaborative
- A fifteen-month collaborative activity to improve care
for the growing population of CSHCN. This initiative focuses
on 3 practices in the state and assists them in completing
a quality improvement process to provide medical homes to
their patients with special needs. It also assists in building
the capacity of Colorado's CSHCN and other health department
programs to support and extend this approach after the completion
of
the project period. For more information you can go to the
project
overveiw.
Parent-Practice Partnerships Adobe
PDF (COMING
SOON)
Colorado Medical Home
Initiative Web Sites:
Colorado Medical Home Web site: www.cdphe.state.co.us/ps/hcp/medicalhome/index.html
Title V Block Grant to States
Title V of the Social Security Act is one of the largest
Federal block grant programs. It leads the nation in ensuring
the health of all mothers, infants, children, adolescents,
and children with special health care needs (CSHCN). Title
V is administered by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau
(MCHB) as part of the Health Resources and Services Administration,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Title V and Children with Special Health Care
Needs
MCHB Objective: Support development and
implementation of comprehensive, culturally competent,
coordinated systems of care for the estimated 18 million
U.S. children who have or are at risk for chronic physical,
developmental, behavioral or emotional conditions and
who also require health and related services of a type
or amount beyond that required by children generally
MCH Contact:
Karen Trierweiler
Director, Center for Healthy Families and Communities
Address: Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment PSD-ADM-A4,
4300 Cherry Creek Drive South
Denver, Colorado 80246
Phone: 303 692-2481 |Fax: 303 782-5576
Email: karen.trierweiler@state.co.us
CSHCN Contact is the medical home contact, see Medical Home Contact for more information.
Related Grant Initiatives
This section provides information
on current state grants that are working on medical home
initiatives. This includes the grant abstract as well as
key contacts for the grant.
 The Mountain States Regional Collaborative (AZ, CO, MT, NM, NV, TX, UT & WV) was awarded a Medical Home Visting Professorship
Medical Home Visiting Professorship Pilot Program
The American Academy of Pediatrics National Center for Medical Home Initiatives for Children with Special Needs and the American College of Medical Genetics' National Coordinating Center for the Regional Genetics and Newborn Screening Service Collaboratives (NCC) in partnership with the ACMG and MCHB recently developed a pilot visiting professorship program. This program focuses on the specific topic areas of genetics and medical home and also establishing linkages between Regional Genetics and Newborn Screening Services Collaboratives (RCs) and AAP Chapters.
Hemophilia Grant: Abstract
Principal Investigator: Marilyn Manco-Johnson, MD
Project Period: June 1, 2002 through May 31, 2005
Purpose: The purpose of this proposal is to continue
the family-centered, community-based comprehensive hemophilia
care supporting the successful existing structure of Hemophilia
Treatment Centers (HTCs) in MCHB Region VIII.
EHDI Grants:
Colorado
MCHB State Grant (2000)
Project Period: Years 4 From: April 1,
2000 To: March 31, 2004
Purpose: The purpose of this project is
to plan, demonstrate, implement, and refine a sustainable
infrastructure in the State of Colorado in the following
areas: screening, audiological assessment, identifying a
medical home, family input and associated family support,
early intervention, culturally competent practices, professional
and public education, and evaluation for infant hearing
systems. Families in the State of Colorado will benefit
from this project because they will have assurance that
they will receive appropriate and timely follow up after
their baby receives a hearing screening. Appropriate and
timely follow-up in each of the stated priorities, screening,
audiological assessment, and early intervention, will be
accomplished by a system which is built through a collaborative
effort with professionals, families, and consumers. This
collaboration is essential in order to sustain the activities
that are listed.
Colorado
CDC State Grant (2000)
Purpose: primary goal of this grant is
to automate the tracking between hospitals, audiologists,
CO-Hears, EI programs and medical homes. Through the genetics
planning grant, Colorado has started design work on a template
for integration of data systems that include newborn blood
spot screening, newborn hearing screening, birth defects
registry, EPSDT data, and data in HCP. They have also started
designing an electronic case management tool called Integrated
Reporting and Information System (IRIS). With this, the
project proposes to improve the efficiency of data flow
between programs. The project also requests funding for
the committed time from CDPHE Information Technology Service
(ITS) programmers.
Partners in the State
This section provides information on who in the state
(individuals and agencies) are working together to create
medical homes for children.
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Chapter:
www.coaap.org/
American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Chapter:
www.coloradoafp.org/
Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (EHDI) Contact(s):
State
EHDI programs promote universal newborn hearing screening,
develop effective tracking and follow-up as a part of the
public health system, promote appropriate and timely diagnosis
of the hearing loss, prompt enrollment in appropriate Early
Intervention, ensure a medical home for all newborns and
strive to eliminate geographic and financial barriers to
service access.
Name: Vickie Thomson; MA, CCC-A
Contact: Phone: 303-692-2458 | Fax: 303-782-5576 |
E-mail: vickie.thomson@state.co.us
Early Childhood Connections - Early Intervention/Part
C Coordinator:
The Program for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities (Part
C of IDEA) is a federal grant program that assists states
in operating a comprehensive statewide program of early
intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities,
ages birth through age 2 years, and their families.
Name: Susan Smith
Contact: Phone: (303) 866-6709 | Fax:
(303) 866-6662 | Email: smith_s@cde.state.co.us
Web Site: www.cde.state.co.us/earlychildhoodconnections/
EI coordinator for children who are deaf and hard
of hearing
Name: Jennie Germano, Director Early Education Programs
Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind
33 North Institute St.
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Contact: Phone: 719-578-2116
E-mail: jgermano@csdb.org
JFK Partners: www.jfkpartners.org/
JFK Partners is a multifaceted Interdepartmental Program
of the Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry of the University
of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Designated as Colorado's
University Affiliated Program by the Administration on Developmental
Disabilities and as Colorado's LEND Program (Leadership
Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities) by the Maternal
Child Health Bureau, JFK Partners has strong collaborative
relationships with numerous organizations that are a part
of Colorado's developmental disability and special health
care needs communities.
Section 619/Special Education for ages 3-5 Coordinators:
This program provides free appropriate public education
(FAPE) for children, ages 3 through 5 years, with disabilities:
Name: Nan Vendegna, Early Childhood Consultant
Contact: Phone: (303) 866-6602 | Fax: (303) 866-6662
| Email: vendegna_n@cde.state.co.us
Website: www.cde.state.co.us/earlychildhoodconnections/early.htm
State Interagency Coordinating Council (ICC) Chairs:
The ICC advises appropriate agencies on the unmet needs
in early childhood special education and early intervention
programs for children with disabilities, assists in the
development and implementation of policies that constitute
a statewide system, and assists all appropriate agencies
in achieving full participation, coordination, and cooperation
for implementation of statewide system.
Name: Pam Christy, ICC Co-Chair Email: pkchristy@earthlink.net
Name: Lori Sanchez, ICC Co-Chair Email:
lorisanchez6@aol.com
Contact: Phone: (303) 866-6710 (Christy)
| Fax: (303) 866-6662
Web site:www.cde.state.co.us/earlychildhoodconnections/cicc.htm
Resources
Information for Care Coordinators
State Waiver Information: www.cms.hhs.gov/MedicaidStWaivProgDemoPGI/08_WavMap.asp
Waivers are the result of a process that allows state
Medicaid agencies to apply for and receive permission from
HCFA to provide services not otherwise covered by Medicaid
and/or to do so in ways not described by the Social Security
Act. Most Medicaid managed care programs require Waivers.
The Waivers, which can differ greatly, are known by their
numbers (1115, 1119), or as home-and community-based, or
as Katie Beckett Waivers.
Educational Initiatives
This section provides information on training initiatives
on the medical home. Some states will discuss their outreach
projects in relation to physicians, families, and the community.
No information is currently available for this category.
Screening
Initiatives
This section provides information on surveillance
and screening initiatives in the state.
State Newborn Screening & Genetics Programs:
genes-r-us.uthscsa.edu/resources.htm
- State Newborn Screening Program Links
- State Genetics Program Links
- Regional Genetics and Newborn Screening Collaborative
Links
- Newborn Screening State Contact Fact Sheet
Autism Service Guidelines
The Colorado Autism Task Force is composed of individuals
representing the Colorado
Department Education, school administrators and teachers,
academic professionals, service
providers, parents children with autism, advocates for children
with autism and individuals who
have autism. The goal of the Task Force is to establish guidelines
for the education of people
with autism in the state of Colorado.
http://cde.state.co.us/cdesped/download/pdf/WkgChldrnAutism.pdf
State Resources on the Internet
Note: The information provided on the state pages was submitted
by the state medical home teams.As this is not an exhaustive
list, please let us know if you have additions for your
state resource page. You can contact us at: medical
home@aap.org.
Last Updated
August 25, 2008
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