Engaging Parents as Partners to Support Early Child Health and Development
Ensuring and coordinating services that support young children's healthy development requires strong and effective partnerships between families and health care providers.
Long Term Services and Supports and Chronic Care Coordination: Policy Advances Enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act enacts a variety of initiatives aimed at enhancing long term services and supports (LTSS) and coordination of primary and chronic care for older persons and adults with disabilities. Many of these establish delivery systems demonstrations and Medicaid options that states could adopt to implement state reforms.
Building Medical Homes in State Medicaid and CHIP Programs
With 47 million uninsured Americans, double digit inflation in medical spending and health outcomes that lag far behind other nations, comprehensive health care reform that addresses access, cost and quality issues is a national priority. A primary care oriented system may have benefits for population health, equity in health and cost containment and has been shown to reduce racial and ethnic disparities, and result in significantly lower health care costs and improved life expectancy diseases for those with chronic diseases.
Improving Care Coordination, Case Management, and Linkages to Service for Young Children: Opportunities for States
States can play an important role in improving care coordination and case management and strengthening linkages between primary care providers and other child and family service providers to promote and support the healthy development of young children. States can use primary care practice-based strategies, service provider linkage strategies, and systems change and cross-system strategies.
The Role of State Health Policy in Multi-Sector System and Service Linkages for Young Children
Children must be healthy in order to learn. Their motor skills, coordination, and overall physical health affect social-emotional and cognitive development and academic achievement. The domains of child development are interrelated, demanding a multi-sector approach to foster healthy development. Yet, cross-sector service coordination remains a challenge. Increasingly, states are recognizing that healthy development requires attention to interrelated developmental needs of children and families, leading them to plan more integrated services.
New Opportunities and Continuing Challenges: A Report from the NASHP EPSDT Forum
Early access to high-quality child health care and development programs builds a foundation that ensures each child the optimum chance to grow strong physically, emotionally, and socially.
Money Follows the Person Toolbox
The Toolbox synthesizes information available from multiple sources about nursing home transition and Money Follows the Person initiatives. It is intended to help states prepare for the MFP Demonstration program created by the Deficit Reduction Act (DRA). It summarizes the state of the field in MFP design components such as identifying consumers, planning and implementing transitions from an institution, financing MFP, and evaluating programs and progress.
Nursing Facility Transition Grantee Annual Report Data
This issue brief is an analysis of the experience of Nursing Facility Transition (NFT) grantees for 2002 and 2003. The analysis covers 33 NFT grantees (10 Independent Living Centers and 23 states).
Assessment Instruments in 12 States
This report is a compilation and review of state long-term care assessment instruments and processes. The document identifies assessment instruments being used and reviews some of the variation across instruments and in the process for using them.
Making Medicaid Work for the 21st Century: Improving Long-Term Services and Supports
One of a series of issue briefs designed to share with federal and state policymakers, as well as other stakeholders, the issues and options raised by the Making Medicaid Work for the 21st Century workgroup. This brief discusses ways to improve long-term services and supports.
