Medical Homes in Colorado
This page is designed to keep you informed about events and activities
happening in Colorado 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.
Colorado Medical Home State Contact:
Name: Kathy Watters, Director Health Care Program for Children with Special Needs
Contact: Phone: 303 692-2418 | Email: kathy.watters@state.co.us
State Team Roster available at: www.medicalhomeinfo.org/model/downloads/State Teams/Colorado Medical Home Team.doc
COLORADO'S "VISION" FOR MEDICAL HOME Adobe
PDF 
www.medicalhomeinfo.org/states/state
/Downloads/CO%20Info/COVision.pdf
A Medical Home is not just a building, house or hospital, but a team approach
to providing health care. A Medical Home originates in a primary health
care setting that is family-centered and compassionate. A partnership
develops between the family and the primary health care practitioner.
Together they access all medical and non-medical services needed by the
child and family to achieve maximum potential. The Medical Home maintains
a centralized, comprehensive record of all health related services to
promote continuity of care.
Children with special health care needs (CSHCN) may have many professionals
invested in their physical and emotional well-being. Coordination of care
is an essential activity to assure communication and planning amongst
team members, including family, primary health care practitioners, specialists,
community programs and insurance plans.
Colorado has a Medical Home Advisory Board since 2000 Adobe
PDF (COMING
SOON)
Medical Home Strategic Planning Team Adobe
PDF www.medicalhomeinfo.org/states/state
/downloads/CO%20Info/COStrategicPlanning.pdf
Colorado was selected to
be part of the National NICHQ Medical Home Learning Collaborative
- A fifteen-month collaborative activity to improve care for the growing
population of CSHCN. This initiative focuses on 3 practices in the state
and assists them in completing a quality improvement process to provide
medical homes to their patients with special needs. It also assists in
building the capacity of Colorado's CSHCN and other health department
programs to support and extend this approach after the completion of
the project period.
Parent-Practice Partnerships Adobe PDF
(COMING
SOON)
Colorado Medical Home Initiative
Web Sites:
Colorado Medical Home Web site: www.cdphe.state.co.us/ps/hcp/medicalhome/index.html
Title V CSHCN Program - Health Care Program for Children with Special
Needs (HCP): www.cdphe.state.co.us/ps/cyshcn/cyshcnhom.asp
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
Best Practices for CSHCN in Colorado:
http://co.gov/bestpractices/CYSHCN/index.html
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.
Hemophilia Grant
Project Period: June 1, 2002 through May 31, 2005
Purpose: The purpose of this proposal is to continue the family-centered,
community-based comprehensive hemophilia care supporting the successful
existing structure of Hemophilia Treatment Centers (HTCs) in MCHB Region
VIII.
EHDI Grants:
Colorado MCHB State Grant (2000): www.infanthearing.org/stategrants/mchb2000/mchb2000_colorado.html
Project Period: Years 4 From: April 1, 2000 To: March
31, 2004
Purpose: The purpose of this project is to plan, demonstrate,
implement, and refine a sustainable infrastructure in the State of Colorado
in the following areas: screening, audiological assessment, identifying
a medical home, family input and associated family support, early intervention,
culturally competent practices, professional and public education, and
evaluation for infant hearing systems. Families in the State of Colorado
will benefit from this project because they will have assurance that they
will receive appropriate and timely follow up after their baby receives
a hearing screening. Appropriate and timely follow-up in each of the stated
priorities, screening, audiological assessment, and early intervention,
will be accomplished by a system which is built through a collaborative
effort with professionals, families, and consumers. This collaboration
is essential in order to sustain the activities that are listed.
Colorado CDC State Grant (2000): www.infanthearing.org/stategrants/cdc2000/CO-CDC2000-Grant.html
Purpose: primary goal of this grant is to automate the
tracking between hospitals, audiologists, CO-Hears, EI programs and medical
homes. Through the genetics planning grant, Colorado has started design
work on a template for integration of data systems that include newborn
blood spot screening, newborn hearing screening, birth defects registry,
EPSDT data, and data in HCP. They have also started designing an electronic
case management tool called Integrated Reporting and Information System
(IRIS). With this, the project proposes to improve the efficiency of data
flow between programs. The project also requests funding for the committed
time from CDPHE Information Technology Service (ITS) programmers.
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.coaap.org/
American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Chapter: www.coloradoafp.org/
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: Vickie Thomson; MA, CCC-A
Contact: Phone: 303-692-2458 | Fax: 303-782-5576 | E-mail: vickie.thomson@state.co.us
Early Childhood Connections - 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: Susan Smith
Contact: Phone: (303) 866-6709 | Fax: (303) 866-6662 | Email: smith_s@cde.state.co.us
Web Site: www.cde.state.co.us/earlychildhoodconnections/
EI coordinator for children who are deaf and hard of hearing
Name: Arlene Stredler Brown
Contact: Phone: 303-492-3037 | Fax: 303-492-3274 | E-mail: arlene.brown@colorado.edu
JFK Partners: www.jfkpartners.org/
JFK Partners is a multifaceted Interdepartmental Program of the Departments
of Pediatrics and Psychiatry of the University of Colorado Health Sciences
Center. Designated as Colorado's University Affiliated Program by the
Administration on Developmental Disabilities and as Colorado's LEND Program
(Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities) by the Maternal
Child Health Bureau, JFK Partners has strong collaborative relationships
with numerous organizations that are a part of Colorado's developmental
disability and special health care needs communities.
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: Nan Vendegna, Early Childhood Consultant
Contact: Phone: (303) 866-6602 | Fax: (303) 866-6662 | Email: vendegna_n@cde.state.co.us
Website: www.cde.state.co.us/earlychildhoodconnections/early.htm
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: Pam Christy, ICC Co-Chair Email: pkchristy@earthlink.net
Name: Lori Sanchez, ICC Co-Chair Email: lorisanchez6@aol.com
Contact: Phone: (303) 866-6710 (Christy) | Fax: (303) 866-6662
Web site:www.cde.state.co.us/earlychildhoodconnections/cicc.htm
Resources
Presentations available include:
- Medical Home Overview Adobe PDF
- Building Medical Home Adobe PDF
- A Physician's Guide to Understanding EPSDT in Colorado
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.
A Physician's Guide to Understanding IDEA and Early Interventions Services
in Colorado
(COMING SOON)
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
Family Corner
Early Hearing Detection & Intervention
(EHDI) Information for Parents:
Description of EHDI Program | Babies Diagnosed with Hearing Loss www.medicalhomeinfo.org/screening/State/colorado.html
Family Voices: www.familyvoices.org/st/CO.htm
Partnering with professionals and families to advocate for health care
services that are family-centered, community-based, comprehensive, coordinated
and culturally competent.
NAMI of Colorado (National Voice of Mental Illness):
www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=Your_Local_NAMI&Template=/CustomSource/AffiliateFinder.cfm&State=CO
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!
Peak Parent Center: www.peakparent.org/
PEAK Parent Center is Colorado's Parent Training and Information Center.
PEAK is a statewide organization of parents of children with disabilities
reaching out to assist other parents and professionals.
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
/colorado.html
Last Updated
August 10, 2006