 Medical
Homes in Ohio
This page is designed to keep you informed about events
and activities happening in Ohio that will help improve access
to medical homes for children with special health care needs
(CSHCN).
Click on a topic below to learn more about what's
going on in Ohio
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.
Ohio
Medical Home Contact:
Name:
Rosemary Feka, RN - Bureau for Children with
Medical Handicaps
Contact: Phone: 614-466-7240 | Email:
rfeka@odh.ohio.gov
State Team Roster
| Web
site
MCHB
Medical Home Grant: Medical Home Implementation
--- PrimeCare Pediatrics
Project Period: 4 years from July 1,
2004 to June 30, 2008
Abstract 
Purpose: To further implement the concept
of the medical home into this primary care practice. This
practice has been involved in a state pilot project as well
as a NICHQ learning collaborative for the medical home over
the past year. Progress toward improving this practice as
a medical home has been made in three major areas: identification
of children with special healthcare needs (CSHCN), education
of staff regarding community resources, and development
of a medical information care plan. In order to continue
to progress, this practice needs a dedicated care coordinator
to serve this patient population.
Ohio Statewide Medical Home Implementation
Plan - Promise
to the State
Ohio
Medical Home Focus Group Project Summary (May 2003)
The report discusses the results of a focus group of families
who have a child with special health care needs. The families
wre surveyed about their experiences and how a medical home
would help them.
Ohio 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 Ohio's
BCMH and other health department programs to support and
extend this approach after the completion of the project
period. For more information you can go to the project
overveiw.
Special Needs Issues in the News: www.enquirer.com/extremechoices/
Families of chronically ill children face serious challenges
– lifetime maximum caps on private insurance, soaring
health care costs, and getting help with child care. The
Center for Infants and Children with Special Needs at Cincinnati
Children's Hospital Medical Center offers the following
link to the Extreme Choices series recently featured in
the Cincinnati Enquirer.
These news stories take a close look at these issues and
highlight families currently facing such challenges.
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.
Transitions Champions Incentive
Grant - Incentive
Award FAQs
Goal: To conduct parent and
youth focus groups across the state to further the implementation
of transition activities for CSHCN youth and to further
the development of statewide initiatives related to transition.
For more information contact:James
Bryant, Bureau Chief
Phone: (614) 466-1549 | Email:
JBRYANT@gw.odh.state.oh.us
Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children
Program Grant
Rural Interdisciplinary Developmental Evaluation Clinic
Initiative (2001)
Athens-Meigs Educational Service Center, Athens, OH
In the Ohio counties of Athens, Meigs, and Vinton, more
than half of the population live below the poverty level,
with limited access to care. This program will expand existing
developmental and behavioral assessment clinics to these
three counties to provide interdisciplinary assessment services
in partnership with local health and educational service
providers for families with children ages 0 to 6 years old.
The interdisciplinary team consists of a developmental pediatrician,
physical therapist, occupational therapist, psychologist,
speech pathologist, nurse consultant, and clinic coordinator.
The goal of the program is to improve the overall health
status and educational programming, functional abilities,
and developmental outcomes of children ages birth to six
years old living in Athens, Meigs, and Vinton Counties who
have special needs.
For more information on the Healthy Tomorrows Grant Program
click
here For more information on this HTPCP project,
please e-mail your name, address, telephone, and fax numbers
with your specific request to healthyt@aap.org.
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.ohioaap.org/
The Ohio Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics
represents approximately 1,200 pediatricians, pediatric
medical specialists, pediatric surgical specialists and
physicians in training in Ohio.
American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Chapter:
www.ohioafp.org/
The Ohio Academy of Family Physicians is a statewide
professional association of approximately 4,400 members,
including practicing physicians, residents, and medical
students.
Title V CSHCN Program" Bureau for Children with
Medical Handicaps (BCMH)": www.odh.ohio.gov/odhPrograms/cmh/bcmh/cmh1.aspx
BCMH Physician Care Management Program:
Children with special health care needs (CSHCN) require
more specialized care from a variety of providers and
more time related to this care than other children. This
complexity of care and the additional time factor have
resulted in the BCMH developing a project to compensate
BCMH physicians who provide prolonged physician services
for CSHCN and their families. This project is designed
to promote the Medical Home Concept for CSHCN. More information
is available by clicking
here.
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) Coordinator:
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: Reena K. Kothari, M.A., C.C.C.-A.
Contact Information: Tel: 614-387-0135
| Fax: 614-728-9163
Web site: www.infanthearing.org/states/ohio/index.html
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: Debbie Cheatham
Contact: Fax: (614) 728-9163 | Email:
dcheatha@gw.odh.state.oh.us
Web site: www.odh.ohio.gov/odhPrograms/ei/ein/earlyint1.aspx
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: Edith Greer
Contact: Phone: (614) 466-0224 | Fax:
(614) 728-3223 | Email: edith.greer@ode.state.oh.us
Web site: www.ode.state.oh.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: Kimberly Christensen
Contact: Phone: (419) 372-7299 | Email:
kchris@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Name: Sonya Oppenheimer, MD
Contact: Phone: (513) 636-8383 | Email:
oppes0@chmcc.org
Web site:
www.ectac.org/contact/iccchair.asp#OH
Resources/Documents
Special Needs Resource
Directory of Southwest Ohio:
www.cincinnatichildrens.org/svc/prog/special-needs/resources/default.htm
The directory includes information on issues related to
advocacy, assistive technology, community services, dental
care, education, employment, estate and future planning,
financial assistance, guardianship, home health care, mental
health, MR/DD services, nutrition resources, summer programming,
therapies, transition issues, transportation, and wish-granting
organizations. The printed and online versions of the Resource
Directory were made possible through funding from the William
Nutt Fund and BCMH.
Developed by the Center for
Infants and Children with Special Needs at Cincinnati Children's
Hospital Medical Center. The goal of the Resource Directory
is to provide comprehensive web-based information in one
convenient location for both parents and professionals.
Their hope is that the Resource Directory will be beneficial
in the coordination of medical and psychosocial care of
children with specialized chronic health care needs.
Medicaid Web site: jfs.ohio.gov/ohp/bcps/hshf/index.stm
Medicaid Fact Sheets: jfs.ohio.gov/ohp/bcps/FactSheets/
Ohio Home Care Program: jfs.ohio.gov/ohp/ohc/ohc.stm
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.
The Ohio Association of County Boards of Mental Retardation
and Developmental Disabilities The OACBMRDD is a nonprofit
organization specializing in providing information, continuing
education, and legislative liaison to Ohio's 88 county MR/DD
www.oacbmrdd.org
Ohio Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental
Disabilities (MRDD)
Develops services to assist individuals in living healthy
and safe lives, and to assist the families of people with
developmental disabilities www.odmrdd.state.oh.us
To locate your county MRDD and to get a list of available
area resources click
here.
Ohio Developmental Disabilities Council (ODDC)
A planning and advocacy body committed to community inclusion
for people with developmental disabilities. ddc.ohio.gov/
Ohio Department of Insurance Web site: www.ins.state.oh.us
Ohio Department of Mental Health: www.mh.state.oh.us/
Ohio Association of County Behavioral Health Authorities (OACBHA) www.oacbha.org/about.htm
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.
Developmental Surveillance and Screening Policy
Implementation Project (D-PIP)
Ohio Pediatrics, Inc. from Huber Heights,
OH is participating in the Developmental Surveillance and
Screening Policy Implementation Project (D-PIP). The D-PIP
has selected 17 practices from across the United States
to implement the AAP policy statement (scheduled for publication
in July 2006) “Identifying Infants and Young Children
with Developmental Disorders in the Medical Home: An Algorithm
for Developmental Surveillance and Screening” to 1)
determine if the algorithm is efficiently and effectively
implemented into pediatric practice; 2) recognize strategies
for implementing the algorithm; and 3) examine outcomes
of implementation. Following the project, information and
outcomes will be shared with pediatric clinicians and other
health care professionals who are seeking to improve the
delivery of developmental surveillance and screening.
Click
here for additional information on the D-PIP.
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
Autism Service
Guidelines
Service Guidelines for
Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Provides
supports for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder/Pervasive
Developmental Disorder (ASD/PDD). The information and recommended
strategies and modifications were compiled by committees
and agreed upon by the “Task Force to Develop
Guidelines for Educating Individuals with ASD/PDD Ages
Birth to 21.”
http://psychmed.osu.edu/AutismBook_1.pdf
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
March 23, 2007
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