Sacramento, CA
Medical Home Training Program - April 1, 2000

Target Audience | Course Objectives |State Resource Info | Schedule | Faculty
 
Overview  
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) will offer its Every Child Deserves a Medical Home Training Program on April 1, 2000 at Shriners Hospital in Philadelphia. The program aims to support pediatric health care providers, children with special health care needs and their families, and communities interested in the well being of these children in a changing health care environment.

Target Audience
The target audience includes pediatric health professionals and their staff, families of children with special needs, managed care professionals, policy makers and community members.

Cost
Physicians and nurses receiving CME credit will be charged $25 (Professionals receiving NAPNAP credit pay $15 for registration and $10 to NAPNAP for processing the credit). There is no fee for parents, residents, and allied health care professionals. Scholarships of $50 will be available for up to 20 parents to help cover childcare and travel expenses.

Course Objectives
General pediatricians, family physicians, pediatric subspecialists, and other pediatric health care professionals, nurses, pediatric office staff, community resources, and parents of children with special needs are invited to participate in the course. Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Explain the elements of the medical home concept as applied to their practice environment or child's care;
• Understand the concepts, skills, and information necessary to successfully care for children with special health care needs who are enrolled in managed care organizations;
• Accurately describe trends and developments in caring for children with special health care needs;
• Be able to identify programs in the community that serve children with special health care needs; and
• Be able to assess, and if necessary improve pediatric office practices to assure that they are sensitive to families of children with special health care needs.

State Resource Inforamtion:
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Sacramento Training Schedule

All participants will receive a training manual, break food and lunch.
On-site daycare is not available.
Parent scholarships will be awarded on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Sacramento Training Faculty

Common Elements: Alan Kohrt, MD, Monica Kondrad, RN, Family Professional Partnerships: Penny Soppas, MD, Symme Trachtenberg, MSW; Susan Badeau, Annette Frasier, Trieste Kennedy, and Ruth Landsman Practices, Policies, and Procedures: Trude Hacker, MD, Gary Emmett, MD, Lois Kohrt, Chris Stanley, RN, and Ellen Craighead, RN,MSN, Jean Ann Vogelman Comprehensive, Coordinated, Collaborative Care: Maureen Fee, MD, William McNett, MD, Denise Salerno, MD, Kathrine Maus, MSW, Stacey Antoniadis, MPH, and Carole Marshall-Lowry, RN, CCM Medical Home Panel: Trude Hacker, MD, Deneen Votja, MD, Marilyn Goeins, RN, Ellen Stang, MD, Stanley Lynch Jr, MD

Funding for this event has been provided by an education grant from Shriners Hospitals for Children with additional support from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau.

The CME Office at the American Academy of Pediatrics
reserves the right to cancel this activity for any reason whatsoever.
In the event of such cancellation, the full enrollment fee will be returned to the registrant.