 Medical
Homes in Missouri
This page is designed to keep you informed about events
and activities happening in Missouri 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 Missouri
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.
Missouri Medical Home Contact:
Name: Gary Harbison - Director, Children
with Special Needs
Contact: Phone: 573-751-6246 | Email: gary.harbison.dhss.mo.gov
The Missouri Partnership for Enhanced Delivery
of Services (MO-PEDS): Helping families coordinate care
for their children
www.hsc.missouri.edu/~MO-PEDS/
A medical home project designed to improve the quality of
care for rural and underserved children with special health
care needs (CSHCN). The MO-PEDS program helps families find
comprehensive and coordinated care for their CSHCN, including
medical, educational, mental health, and family support
services.
The project goals include:
- Partnering with primary care physicians to increase
the availability of comprehensive care coordination services
in 16 central Missouri counties
- Evaluating the impact of MO-PEDS care coordination on
CSHCN enrolled in a Medicaid managed care organization
- Sustaining the MO-PEDS intervention by developing a
care coordination training program for state agency personnel
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.
Genetics Grant: Abstract
Project Period: June 1, 2001-May 31, 2004
Purpose: The purpose of this project is to develop
an integrated genetics information system and improve the
ability of children in the newborn screening program to receive
needed medical and intervention services, including integration
into Missouri’s special health care needs systems of
care. This project will help achieve the goal of developing
a statewide surveillance system for genetics by integrating
and enhancing existing surveillance systems as identified
in Missouri’s state plan for genetic services.
Hemophilia Grant:
Abstract
Project Period: 6/1/02 through 5/31/2005
Purpose: To provide comprehensive care for
people with hemophilia and their families in the fours states
of the region: Iowa, Kansas Missouri, and Nebraska. Comprehensive
care provides an integrated, multidisciplinary system of care
for persons with hemophilia and their families throughout
their lifetime.
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.moaap.org/
American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Chapter:
www.mo-afp.org/
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:
Melinda Sanders
Title V Director
Address: P.O. Box 570
Jefferson City, Missouri 65102
Phone: 573-751-6235 | Fax: 573-526-5347
Email: melinda.sanders@dhss.mo.gov
For the CSHCN Contact please view the Medical Home Contact at the top of the page.
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, link newborns to a medical
home and strive to eliminate geographic and financial barriers
to service access.
Name: Catherine Harbison
Contact: Tel: 573-751-6266 | Email: catherine.harbison@dhss.mo.gov
First Steps - 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: Deborah Parsons, Coordinator
Contact: Phone: (573) 751-2965 | Fax:
(573) 526-4404 |
Email:
debbie.parsons@dese.state.mo.us
Web Site: dese.mo.gov/divspeced/FirstSteps/index.html
Section 619/ Preschool Grants Program of the Individuals
with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). This program
provides free appropriate public education (FAPE) for children,
ages 3 through 5 years, with disabilities:
Name: Deborah Parsons, Coordinator
Contact: Phone: (573) 751-2965 | Fax:
(573) 526-4404
Email: debbie.parsons@dese.state.mo.us
Web Site: www.dese.state.mo.us/divspeced/
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: Valerie Lane, Director
Contact: Phone: (660) 826-4400 | Fax:
(660) 826-4420
Email: vlane@chs-mo.org
Name: Elizabeth Spaugh, ICC Co-Chair
Contact: Phone: (636) 461-0324 | Email:
elizabethspaugh1@msn.com
Resources/Documents
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 Resource
Guide
The Missouri departments of Elementary and Secondary Education
and Mental Health are pleased to share the Missouri
Autism Resource Guide, developed by parents
and professionals from all areas of the state. The resource
guide is a direct result of the Interagency Agreement between
the two departments and the accompanying activities for action.
The purpose of the interagency agreement is to facilitate
collaboration and coordination between the departments in
the support of students with autism and their families. http://cise.missouri.edu/publications/autism.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 26, 2008
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