Medical Homes in Maryland

Medical Home Initiatives
This section provides information on state medical home initiatives/programs.

Maryland Medical Home Contact:

Name: Jamie Perry, MD, MPH
Office for Genetics and Children with Special Health Care Needs
Phone: 410/767-6730 | E-mail: jperry@dhmh.state.md.us

Name: Rachel Hardegree, MPH
Office for Genetics and Children with Special Health Care Needs
Phone: 410/767-6731 | E-mail: rhardegree@dhmh.state.md.us

Related Grant Initiatives

State Implementation Grant (D70) for Improving Systems of Services for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) - Abstract
Grantee: The Parent's Place of Maryland
Grant Period:  2008-2011
Program Director: Josie Thomas
E-mail: Lisa.Davis@ct.gov

The Medical Home Leadership Team
IIn 2006, Maryland received an incentive award from the Champions for Progress Center to create a Medical Home Work Group for the purpose of bringing together important state and local medical home stakeholders to create a state plan for addressing the 2010 goal of ensuring that all CSHCN will receive coordinated, ongoing, comprehensive care within a medical home. The Medical Home Work Group, having completed its work in early 2006, has transitioned into the Medical Home Leadership Team. This team is charged with implementation and sustainability of the medical home state plan.

For more information, please visit the 'Building a Medical Home for CSHCN' page on the Office for Genetics and Children with Special Health Care Needs Web site.

CareFirst BCBS PCMH Demonstration Program

National Naval Medical Center Medical Home Program

Maryland Multi-Stakeholder Medical Home Pilot

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

The Parents’ Place of Maryland/ Maryland Family Voices

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:
Name: Bonnie S. Birkel, CRNP, MPH, Director, Center for Maternal and Child Health
Address: DHMH- 201 W. Preston Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21201
Phone: 410/767-6713 | Fax: 410/333-5233 | E-mail: birkelb@dhmh.state.md.us
Web site

CSHCN Contact:
Name: Susan Panny, MD, Director, Office for Genetics and Children with Special Health Care Needs
Address: DHMH- 201 W. Preston Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21201
Phone: 410/767-6730 | Fax: 410/333-5047 | E-mail: pannys@dhmh.state.md.us
Web site

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, link newborns to a medical home and strive to eliminate geographic and financial barriers to service access.

Name: Linda Vaughan, MA, CCC-A
Phone: 410/767-6432 | Fax: 410/333-5047 | E-mail: lsvaughan@dhmh.state.md.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: Deborah Metzger, Branch Chief (Part C Coordinator)
Phone: 410/767-0261 | Fax: 410/333-2661 | E-mail: dmetzger@msde.state.md.us
Web site

Section 619/ Preschool Grants Program of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). This program provides free appropriate public education (FAPE) for children, ages 3 through 5 years, with disabilities:

Name: Nancy Vorobey, 619 Coordinator
Phone: 410/767-0234 or 410/767-0261 | Fax: 410/333-2661 |
E-mail: nvorobey@msde.state.md.us
Web Site

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: Donna Njoku, ICC Co-Chair
Phone: 301/419-2471 | Fax: 410/859-5301 | E-mail: donnanjok1@aol.com

Name: Linda Ramsey, ICC Co-Chair
Phone: 410/659-7701 | Fax: 410/783-0814 | E-mail: lremsey@friendsofthefamily.org
Web site

Resources
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:
Maryland Newborn Screening Program and Contact Information

Maryland Genetic Services and Contact Information

Newborn Screening and Genetics Collaborative – HRSA Region 2

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