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 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 all children and youth.
Click on a topic below to learn more about what's
going on in Colorado
Medical Home Initiatives
This section
provides information on state medical home initiatives/programs.
Colorado
Medical Home State Contact:
Name:
Kathy Watters, Director Children with Special Needs Unit
Phone: 303/692-2418 | E-mail: kathy.watters@state.co.us
Name: Eileen Forlenza, Director Colorado Medical Home Initiative
Phone: 303/692-2794 | E-mail: Etforlen@smtp.gate.dphe.state.co.us
Colorado Medical Home Initiative
The Colorado Initiative is a systems-building effort to promote quality health care for all children in Colorado. Bringing together a group of more than 40 people representing various agencies, families, hospitals, organizations and policy-makers, the Colorado Medical Home Initiative is dedicated to building a sustainable system that delivers quality health care for all children. Positioned within the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment as the lead agency, the Colorado Medical Home Initiative is a neutral facilitator in identifying barriers while promoting solutions in developing a quality-based system of health care for children.
COLORADO'S
"VISION" FOR MEDICAL HOME 
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 Patient-Centered Medical Home Pilot Web site
Colorado is the site of a Multi-Payer, Multi-State Patient Centered Medical Home Pilot that includes multiple participants at both the local and national level. For questions and additional information, please contact Kari Loken at (720) 297-1681.
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.
State Implementation Grant (D70) for Improving Systems of Services for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) - Abstract 
Grantee: Colorado State Department of Public Health and Environment
Grant Period: 2008-2011
Program Director: Kathy Watters
Phone: 303/692-2418
E-mail: kathy.watters@state.co.us
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
American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Chapter
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
MCH Contact:
Names: Karen Trierweiler, Director, Center for Healthy Families and Communities
Address: Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment PSD-ADM-A4,
4300 Cherry Creek Drive South
Denver, Colorado 80246
Phone: 303/692-2481 | Fax: 303/782-5576 | E-mail: karen.trierweiler@state.co.us
CSHCN Contact is the medical home contact, see Medical Home Contact for more information.
Family Voices of Colorado Web site
Family Voices Colorado is a chapter of the national, grassroots organization composed of families and friends who care for and about our children with special health care needs. The primary goal of the organization is to ensure that our children's health is addressed amidst change in public and private health care systems.
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
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.
EI Coordinator
Name: Ardith Ferguson
Phone: 303/866-7657 | Fax: 303/866-7680 | E-mail: ardith.ferguson@state.co.us
Web site
EI coordinator for children who are deaf and hard
of hearing
Name: Jennie Germano, Director Early Education Programs
Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind
Address: 33 North Institute St.
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Phone: 719/578-2116 | E-mail: jgermano@csdb.org
Director, Results Matter: Coordinates the child and family outcomes work for birth to five across both EI Colorado and general special education programs birth to five.
Name: Nan Vendegna
Phone: 303/866-6602
| Fax: 303/866-6370 | E-mail: vendegna_n@cde.state.co.us
Web site
JFK Partners
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: Susan Smith, Section 619 State Coordinator
Phone: 303/866-6721 | Fax: 303/866-6370 | E-mail: smith_s@cde.state.co.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: Pam Christy, ICC Co-Chair
Phone: 303/866-6710 (Christy)
| Fax: 303/866-6662 | E-mail: pkchristy@earthlink.net
Name: Lori Sanchez, ICC Co-Chair
Fax: 303/866-6662 | E-mail: lorisanchez6@aol.com
Web site
Resources
Information for Care Coordinators
State Waiver Information
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.
Screening
Initiatives
This section provides information on surveillance
and screening initiatives in the state.
State Newborn Screening & Genetics Programs:
Colorado Newborn Screening Program and Contact Information
Colorado Genetic Services and Contact Information
Newborn Screening and Genetics Collaborative – HRSA Region 6
State Resources on the Internet
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.
Last Updated
January 7, 2010
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