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CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH

1. Project Identifier Information
   
   
   1. Project Title: CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH
   2. Project Number: H18MC00007
   3. Email address: Lisa.Davis@po.state.ct.us
   
   
2. Budget
   
   

   1. MCHB Grant Award Amount: (Line 1, Form 1)	$100,000
   2. Unobligated Balance: (Line 2, Form 1)	$41,990
   3. Matching Funds: (if applicable) (Line 3, Form 1)	$0
   4. Other Project Funds: (Line 4, Form 1)	$82,431
   5. Total Project Funds: (Line 5, Form 1)	$224,421
   The MCHB Grant Award Amount may differ from the total budget amount displayed on the Snapshots page due to grant actions that occurred after this report was submitted. These grant actions would include supplemental funding such as carryovers and extensions.

   
   
3. Type(s) of Service Provided
   
   
   • Infrastructure Building Service
   
   
4. Project Description on Experience to Date
   
   
   1. Project Description
      
      
      1. Problem:
         
         This project addresses MCHBG Health Systems Capacity Indicator #9A, to "assure that the MCH Program and Title V agency have access to policy and program information and data.
         
         
      2. Goals and Objectives: List up to 5 major goals and time-framed objectives per goal for the project.
         
         

         Goal 1:	Improve the ability of the Connecticut Department Public Health (DPH) to more accurately and completely report on the MCHBG national and state performance measures.
         Objective 1:	By September 2006, assess and enhance the Family Health Division's (FHD) programmatic data collection systems to enhance the DPH's ability to report on the MCHBG performance measures, as well as other required outcome measures.
         Objective 2:	By September 2005, expand the linkage of the Birth and Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) files performed during FY '03 to include a linkage with the state Medicaid eligibility files.
         Objective 3:	By September 2006, develop and evaluate a database for community-based providers who participate in the children with special health care needs medical Home Learning Collaborative.

      3. Activities/Methodology undertaken to meet project goals:
         
         The following activities will be performed in Year 03 of this funding opportunity: Objective 1 - Address the recommendations identified by Words and Numbers, Inc. to implement a data driven decision-making framework that includes a structure for effective data management and utilization; develop a multi-year strategic plan for HIP-Kids, a comprehensive data system containing child health information from 11 databases within DPH; seek external funding to partially implement the HIP-Kids plan; analyze Rounds 1 and 2 of the PRATS survey data. Objective 2 - Continue to collaborate with DSS staff to share data needed to support the three addenda in the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and add a fourth addendum related to asthma; pursue the use of a graduate research fellow through an MOU with the University of Connecticut to complete an in-depth analysis of the birth-WIC-Medicaid linked data. Objective 3 - Increase the number of practices included in the Medical Home Learning Collabortive; conduct Medical Home Academy trainings including practice in-services, videoconferences, webcasts, CD's and tapes; provide technical assistance and support to Medical Home practices using the DocSite system for reporting information on the CYSHCN population; continue to collaborate in the linkage of informatioin on CYSHCN and the planed HIP-Kids system.
         
         
      4. The first three Healthy People 2010 objectives which this project addresses are listed below.
         
         
         
         
      5. Coordination: List the State, local health agencies or other organizations involved project and their roles.
         
         Objective 1 - The HIP-Kids initiative requires collaboratoin across four branches within DPH, and across multiple units within DPH. It also involves collaboration with external stakeholders. Objective 2 - The MOUs involve collaborations with the state Department of Social Services and the University of Connecticut. Objective 3 - The Medical Home initiative involves community-based collaborations with medical home environments as well as with the United Way.
         
         
      6. Evaluation : briefly describe the methods which will be used to determine whether process and outcome objectives are met.
         
         Outcome measures include: Objective 1 - Delivery of a technical strategic plan to develop the HIP-Kids system; completion of an analytical report of the PRATS survey data. Objective 2 - Successful linkage of birth-WIC-Medicaid data; completion of an analytical report of existing bith-WIC Medicaid linked data. Objective 3 - Increased number of practices included in the Medical Home Learning Collaborative; number of Medical Home Academy training sessions.
         
         
   2. Continuing Grants ONLY
      
      
      1. Experience to Date :
         
         During Year 02, the following activities have been performed: Objective 1 - Completed a thorough evaluation of FHD's programmatic database systems, and acted on those recommendations to build agency-wide interest in HIP-Kids. This is a project to combine child health information from databases across DPH; established a contract to develop a multi-year strategic plan to build HIP-Kids; established a contract to weight PRATS data. Objective 2 - Established three addenda to the MOU with DSS to enhance the birth-WIC-medicaid linked dataset. The enhancements will include information about children receiving lead screenings, and a list of children who received Title V in the previous 12 months. Objective 3 - Established a collaboration with the Child Health & Development Institute and the University of Connecticu Area Health Education centers to develop and implement the Medical Home Academy; established a contract to develop and expand the CT Medical Home Learning Collaborative; conducted a needs asssment of CYSHCN families about the extent and need for respite services; identified the DocSite system for use in the Medical Home initiative.
         
         
      2. Website URL and annual number of hits:
         
         URL:
         
         Number of hits:
         
         
5. Key Words
   
   
   • Assessment tools
   • Child health services
   • Child nutrition programs
   • Children with special health care needs
   • Comprehensive health care
   • Data analysis
   • Data Systems
   • Medicaid
   • Medical home
   • Outcome and process assessment
     
     
6. Annotation:
   
   Consistent with MCHBG Health System Capacity Indicator #9A, there is a need within the Connecticut Department of Public Health to enhance data collection efforts that support more accurate and complete reporting on MCHBG performance measures. Three individual objectives will collectively address this need. The first objective is to implement a data driven decision-making framework. The second objective seeks to nurture collaborations outside DPH to establish regular linkages of birth-WIC-Medicaid data. The third objective is to establish a network of medical home environemnts to serve the comprehensive health care needs of children with special health care needs, and to maintain a resulting database of these children.
   
   

Are the Data Reported on this Form Provisional or Final?

Final

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