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Medical
Home Mentorship Program
At the National Center of
Medical Home Initiatives for Children with Special Needs,
we recognize the need for additional technical assistance
at the state and local level in order to achieve the goals
set forth in HP 2010 for CYSHCN which are to:
- Increase the proportion of children with special health
care needs and who have access to a medical home and
- Increase the proportion of Territories and States that
have service systems for children with special health
care needs.
Mentorship Map click
here.
A mentorship map is now available to provide information
on what states have a medical home state team, a quality
improvement plan to assist practices in increasing their
medical homeness (this can include a learning collaborative
strategy or an EPIC model), and a "Promise to the
State" (This document outlines the steps that will
be taken to make the provision of medical homes for children
with special health care needs a reality by the year 2010.)
2003 Mentorship Program Brochure
The Medical Home Mentorship Program
offers guidance, resources, and networking opportunities
for individuals, communities and states to assist them in
achieving increased access to medical homes. The success
of the program relies heavily on the continued efforts of
state, community, and practice-based medical home teams
to share their strategies, lessons learned, tools, and resources
designed to improve the delivery of care to CYSHCN.
State Mentors - The mission
to states is to develop a strategic plan that will allow
every CYSHCN to have access to a medical home by the year
2010. A State mentor has demonstrated success in their efforts
through collaboration between public and private entities;
strong commitments to partnerships between physicians, families,
and state agencies; and the pursuit of stated goals beyond
that which "typical" funding mechanisms allow.
The core team members from each state represent pediatricians,
family physicians, families, Title V Children with Special
Health Care Needs programs, Medicaid programs, key community
stakeholders and other state and public agencies.
Practice Based Quality Improvement
Mentors include teams who are working with primary
care physicians to create medical homes in the community.
Core qualities of practice mentors are: the provision of
training to other practices and/or the community; engaging
practices in a quality improvement process; and developing
and disseminating resources and tools. Most practice mentor
activities are funded through MCHB Medical Home Grants and
Title V CSHCN Programs.
Promising Practices include
practices that are: engaged in a quality improvement process
toward becoming a medical home; developing systems and tools
designed to assist in the provision of care to CYSHCN; and
are advocating for CYSHCN in their practice, community,
and state. A goal of the Medical Home Mentorship Program
is to link practices with similar demographics, geography,
state, and community health care systems and resources.
Individuals from these practices can provide support to
other practices as they work to provide a medical home to
CYSHCN. Tools created by Promising Practices are made available
via the medical home web site (click
here for tools) and or by contacting the National Center.
Example: if you are a hospital based
clinic with an inner-city population and you need information
about care coordination, wrap-around services, and funding
options, we will send you any available information on
different models, tools, and contact information. We provide
information and examples of practices that are rural and
urban, hospital based, university based, community based,
based on size, demographic and or the quality improvements
that they have implemented for their CYSHCN. This can
include care coordination models, parent advisory group
models, different reimbursement strategies, office organization,
etc.
How to Use the Mentorship Network
The National Center can facilitate information sharing among
those who are involved in medical home initiatives through
the national Mentorship Network. Examples include:
- Facilitate the development of state medical home teams
and support state team activities related to medical home
and outcomes of the President’s New Freedom Initiative.
- Connect medical home teams from states with similar
challenges and/or systems of care to share solutions and
accomplishments related to improving access to medical
homes.
- Assist state medical home teams in identifying key stakeholders
who can assist in the implementation of medical home initiatives.
- Identify potential sources of funding for state medical
home initiatives.
Each year the National Center plans to bring new teams
that include individual practices, community based initiatives,
and statewide initiatives into the National Medical Home
Mentorship Network.
Communicating with the National
Center
In order to stay up to date on medical home activities throughout
the country, we ask that you send us updates on your activities,
best practices, lessons learned, and any resources or tools
you have developed. One of the ways this information is
shared is through our mentorship network. The network was
developed to meet the needs of states, communities, and
health care professionals by offering guidance, resources,
and networking opportunities to assist them in achieving
increased access to medical homes. The success of the network
relies heavily on the continued efforts of everyone to share
their progress on the road to medical home so that no one
has to reinvent the wheel.
Contact Us
Phone: 800-433-9016, # 4917 | Fax: (847) 228-7035 | medical_home@aap.org
Network
around the country through the Medical
Home Listserv and
learn about new resources and funding opportunities.
MEDICAL HOMES@WORK
An e-Newsletter that offers bi-weekly
updates on medical home issues, resources, funding opportunities,
transitions, news from the National Center of Birth Defects
and Developmental Disabilities at the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. To subscribe, send an e-mail to
medical_home@aap.org.
Last Updated
August 7, 2008
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