Medical Homes in Alabama
This page is designed to keep you informed about events and activities
happening in Alabama that will help improve access to medical homes for
children with special health care needs (CSHCN).
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.
Alabama Medical Home Contact:
Name: Karin Scott
Phone: 205-824-0888 | Email: kscottaap@aol.com
State Team Roster available at: www.medicalhomeinfo.org\model\downloads\State Teams\Alabama Medical Home Team.doc
Alabama
Medicaid: Bringing Health to Life: Medical Home Health Literacy
Through the Medicaid program, physicians can earn enhanced case management
fees for each patient in their panel when they join other Patient 1st
PMPs in earning up to nine hours category 1 or AAFP credit for participating
in Medicaid’s free CME activity, Bringing Health to Life: Medical
Home – Health Literacy. All you have to do is complete either the
adult or pediatric CME post-test/evaluation at the end of each of the
three modules — Medical Home, Health Literacy, and Medicaid 101.
In addition to the training modules, the CD also contains an extensive
library that puts valuable resources at your fingertips as you provide
care to children and adults in the Patient 1st program. For more info
on this program go to: www.medicaid.alabama.gov/programs/patient1st/index_patient1st.aspx?tab=4
AAP CATCH Medical Home Planning Grant 2001-2002
Purpose: Develop a system to enhance communication, cooperation
and satisfaction with care between the practice staff of the medical home
for CSHCN, state CSHCN offices and parents. Specifically, we will
identify the barriers to effective care in the complicated systems and
investigate innovative ways to overcome those barriers. This practice/parent/state
partnership will utilize a parent consultant to enrich the medical home
and enhance linkages and supports to families of CSHCN. Anticipated
outcomes are enhanced family education, compliance with preventative health
services, early identification/referral to appropriate services, coordination
of care, and family satisfaction with care.
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.
No information is currently available for this
category.
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.alchapaap.org/
American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Chapter:
www.aafp.org/chapterweb/alabama.html
Title V CSHCN Program - Children’s Rehabilitation Service (CRS):
www.rehab.state.al.us/Home/default.aspx?url=/Home/Services/CRS/Main
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
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: Melissa Tucker
Contact: Phone: 334-206-2920 | Fax: 334-206-2950
Email: melissatucker@adph.state.al.us
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: Elizabeth Prince, Part C Coordinator
Contact: Phone: (334) 613-3543 | Fax: (334) 613-3541
Email: bdprince@rehab.state.al.us
Web site: www.rehab.state.al.us/Home/default.aspx?url=/Home/Services/AEIS/Main
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: Phyllis Mayfield, 619 Coordinator
Contact: Phone: (334) 242-8114 | Fax: (334) 242-9192
Email: phyllism@alsde.edu
Web site: www.alsde.edu/html/sections/section_detail.asp?section=65&footer=sections
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: Glenn Harger, ICC Chair
Contact: Phone: (334) 479-4900 | Fax: (334) 479-4998 | Email: gharger1947@aol.com
Resources
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.
No information is currently available for this category.
Family Corner
Early Hearing Detection & Intervention
(EHDI) Information for Parents:
Description of EHDI Program: Alabama’s Listening: University
Newborn Hearing Screening
www.medicalhomeinfo.org\screening\EHDI\Description
of EHDI Program\alabama1.pdf
Family Voices :
www.familyvoices.org/st/AL.htm
Partnering with professionals and families to advocate for health care
services that are family-centered, community-based, comprehensive, coordinated
and culturally competent.
Family Village: www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/index.htmlx
A global community that integrates information, resources, and communication
opportunities on the Internet for persons with cognitive and other disabilities,
for their families, and for those that provide them services and support.
This site offers informational resources on specific diagnoses, communication
connections, adaptive products and technology,adaptive recreational activities,
education, worship, health issues, disability-related media and literature,
and much, much more!
NAMI of Alabama (National Voice of Mental Illness): namialabama.org/
Education, advocacy and support for persons with brain disorders (mental
illnesses) and their families.
SEAC Parent Assistance Center: home.hiwaay.net/~seachsv/index.html
Parent Training and Information Centers (PTIs) and Community Parent Resource
Centers (CPRCs) in each state provide training and information to parents
of infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities and to professionals
who work with children.
State Resources on the Internet:
www.medicalhomeinfo.org/states/index.html#res
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.
http://www.medicalhomeinfo.org/states/state
/alabama.html
Last Updated
August 10, 2006