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Every
Child Deserves a Medical Home
Overall
Objectives
- To provide knowledge to pediatric primary care providers
(PCPs), pediatric health care providers, and families
about how to ensure that children with special needs have
medical
homes in a managed care environment.
- To enhance skills for developing sustainable medical
homes.
- To enhance skills for identifying and working through
financial and non-financial barriers to medical homes
for children with special needs.
- To enhance skills for identifying and developing community
resources and networks.
- To illustrate the importance of a collaborative effort
on behalf of pediatric health care professionals, families,
communities, and managed care administrators.
Intended
Audience
Ideally, pediatricians, family physicians, family members,
nurses, pediatric specialists, insurance administrators,
government officials, and any other group of individuals
that work with children with special health care needs will
be invited to the "Every Child Deserves a Medical Home"
Training Program. There may be instances, however, where
the audience is more focused and targeted (eg, grand round
sessions, parent conferences).
Recommended
Facilitators
For each component of the Every Child Deserves a Medical
Home Training Program, a physician, allied health care professional,
and a family representative is recommended to co-facilitate.
This presentation strategy is an excellent opportunity to
illustrate that physicians, allied health care professionals,
and families are partners in determining and providing collaborative
care to children with special health care needs. Much like
a physician facilitator, the allied health care professional
and family representative will help participants experience
first-hand some of the problems families and care
coordinators encounter, as well as some of the "pearls"
they have learned in caring for children with special health
care needs.
As each facilitator team reviews its assigned component,
the roles of each person will be determined. Co-presenters
and audience should be asked periodically for input. Through
collaboration, the medical home concept can be illustrated
and achieved.
Local
Customization of Materials
The curriculum is designed to allow for local customisation
and input. The opportunity to customize these materials
for the specific audience is provided on two dimensions.
- Level of audience sophistication or experience:
Throughout the materials there are references to this
issue. Facilitators will be asked to make decisions about
how specific materials will be presented based on the
participants' familiarity with the issues and concepts
being addressed. If they are relatively new to the concepts,
facilitators should move more slowly through the materials,
involving the audience in a series of question and answer
and brainstorming experiences. If they already have a
solid foundation for the concepts, facilitators should
proceed relatively quickly through the materials and present
information as an overview rather than in-depth.
- Geographic considerations:
Many of the issues discussed within the medical home training
program materials vary from state to state. Often, issues
such as requirements, eligibility, and access are very
different. Since this is a broad-based national curriculum,
the materials have been designed to encourage local input
to the content through the use of methods such as examples,
guest speakers, and handouts. References are made throughout
the facilitator's manual for appropriate insertions of
local issues and examples.
Throughout the curriculum, various teaching options are
provided to assist facilitators with incorporating local
information. If the facilitator team wants to implement
a new teaching strategy, some of the existing curriculum
may have to be condensed.
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