Medical Homes in Arkansas
This page is designed to keep you informed about events and activities happening in Arkansas 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.

Arkansas Medical Home Team Contact:

Name: Gil Buchanan, MD, FAAP
Contact: Phone: 501-682-8202 | Email: Gil.Buchanan@Medicaid.state.ar.us
State Team Roster available at: www.medicalhomeinfo.org/model/downloads/State Teams/Arkansas Medical Home Team.doc

Medical Home Arkansas Web site: www.medicalhomear.org/index.html

Arkansas Statewide Medical Home Implementation Plan: Promise to the State (www.medicalhomeinfo.org/grant/states/ArkansasStatePlan.pdf)

MCHB Medical Home Grant
Project Period: 3/31/02 to 3/30/05
Purpose: To improve the health of all CSHCN in Arkansas by improving the quality of their medical homes. CMS intends to enhance the quality of all characteristics of the medical home – accessibility, family-centeredness, continuity, comprehensiveness, coordination, compassion and cultural-competence. Objectives are to: (1) expand medical home knowledge of 90% of State’s 360 pediatricians by the project’s end; (2) increase medical home knowledge of 33 medical residents and 8 pediatric nursing graduate students at UAMS per year by 50%; (3) provide effective care coordination component of medical home (as measured by a 10% increase in parent satisfaction over three-year project); and (4) provide “systems” care coordination to make systems changes needed to ensure quality medical homes (as measured by degree of systems change during three-year project and/or by having plans in place to effect such change).

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: E-mail: sschutze@aristotle.net

American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Chapter: www.aafp.org/chapterweb/arkansas.html

Title V CSHCN Program - DDS Children’s Services: www.medicalhomear.org/about.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.

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: Millie Sanford, M.S., CCC-A
Contact: Phone: 501-661-2328 / 2459 | Fax: 501-280-4082
Email: msanford@healthyarkansas.com

DDS 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: Sherrill Archer, Part C Coordinator
Contact: Phone: (501) 682-8699 | Fax: (501) 682-8687 | AltPhone1: (501) 682-8695
Email: sherrill.archer@mail.state.ar.us
Web site: www.state.ar.us/dhs/ddds/FirstConn/index.html
Web Site:: www.medicalhomear.org/about.html

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: www.ectac.org/contact/619coord.asp#AR

Name: Sandra Reifeiss
Contact: Phone: (501) 682-4225 | Fax: (501) 682-5168 |
Email: sreifeiss@arkedu.k12.ar.us

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: Ruth Castleberry, ICC Chair
Contact: Phone: (501) 329-2164 | Fax: (501) 329-2113 | Email: fcds01@conwaycorp.net

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.

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

NAMI of Arkansas (National Voice of Mental Illness): ar.nami.org/
Education, advocacy and support for persons with brain disorders (mental illnesses) and their families.

Family Village: www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/index.htmlxx
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!

Arkansas Disability Coalition: www.adcpti.org/
Mission: to work for equal rights and opportunity for Arkansans with disabilities through public policy change, cross-disability collaboration, and the empowerment of people with disabilities and their families.

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Last Updated August 10, 2006