Medical Home Implementation for Children with Special Health Care Needs

Post Date

November 28th 2012

Application Due Date

January 28th 2013

Funding Opportunity Number

HRSA-13-216

CFDA Number(s)

93.110

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Health

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

State Governments
County Governments
City or Township Governments
Special District Governments
Independent School Districts
Non-Federally Recognized Native American Tribal Organizations
Non-Profits With 501 (c) (3) Status With The IRS (Except Higher Education Institutions)
For-Profit Organizations (Except Small Businesses)
Small Businesses
Other

As cited in 42 CFR Part 51 a.3(a), any public or private entity, including an Indian tribe or tribal organization (as those terms are defined at 25 U.S.C. 450(b) is eligible to apply., Faith-based and community-based organizations are also eligible.

Funding

• Award Range:

  $0 - $800031

Grant Description

This announcement solicits applications for a National Center for Medical Home Implementation. The purpose of this activity is to: 1) support a national resource and technical assistance effort to implement and spread the medical home model to all children and youth, particularly children with special health care needs (CSHCN), children who are vulnerable and/or medically underserved, and pediatric populations served by state public health programs, MCHB and HRSA; Фand 2) support activities of the Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program (HTPCP) grantees to improve childrenуs health through innovative community-based efforts, and community and statewide partnerships among professionals in health, education, social services, government, and business. It is anticipated the national center will: Conduct activities to increase access and awareness of the medical home model and policy initiatives related to achieving medical homes for children and youth, particularly children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) and children/youth who are vulnerable and/or medically underserved; Promote and support communities and states in their efforts to spread and sustain the medical home model for children, particularly for CYSHCN and children/youth who are vulnerable and/or medically underserved, by forming partnerships and utilizing quality improvement strategies such as learning collaboratives and improvement partnerships; Promote and support activities that encourage health care professionals, including safety net providers, to coordinate their efforts across and between professionals in a team-based integrated approach that seeks to coordinate the continuum of services including health, education, social service, public health to provide comprehensive and coordinated care for the children and youth they serve; Promote problem solving at the community level by encouraging pediatric cliniciansу participation; and public-private partnership, such as the Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Initiative, Project Launch, and private sector support for improved collaboration and coordination of and access to mental, oral, and physical health and non-clinical resources (e.g. home visiting, early care and education settings such as child care and Head Start, early intervention, child welfare, education) at the community level for children, youth, and their families; Identify and share tested strategies and models for facilitating family-professional partnerships and family-centered care at the practice, organization, and system levels; Provide pediatric clinicians with the tools, e.g. Building Your Medical Home Toolkit, and knowledge, particularly in areas related to communication, care coordination, cultural competence, use of standardized guidelines, and performance reporting to improve care delivery utilizing the medical home model (for additional resources visit: http://www.medicalhomeinfo.org/; Support activities that expand and enhance pediatric cliniciansу capacity to collect, analyze, and use quantitative and qualitative data to generate evidence for the continual support of the medical home model of care for CSHCN, and identify critical factors that result in sustainability and effectiveness of primary care and community-based projects; ФMonitor and evaluate the national centerуs activities and results. In addition, the national center will: Provide consultation to HTPCP program participants, monitor and assess outcomes, Фand disseminate information on effective strategies to ensure successful implementation, evaluation, quality improvement, and sustainability of community-based initiatives, utilizing methods, including webinars, prospective topical communities of practice, and web site; Identify obstacles (issues and contributing factors) to provider participation in the delivery of maternal and child health services to medically underserved, socially and economically disadvantaged pregnant women, children and youth, as well as involvement in problem-solving at the community level; and Promote community training for pediatric residents, medical students and graduate-levelФ students in clinical and public-health related MCH training programs with an interest in providing care, developing policy, or advancing advocacy within a medical home or community-based setting.Ф Disseminate effective approaches to implement community training initiatives.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Health and Human Services

• Office:

  Health Resources and Services Administration

• Agency Contact:

  CallCenter@HRSA.GOV
  CallCenter@HRSA.GOV
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Contact HRSA Call Center at 877-Go4-HRSA/877-464-4772 or email CallCenter@HRSA.GOV

• Agency Email Address:

  CallCenter@HRSA.GOV

• More Information:

  https://grants.hrsa.gov/webExternal/SFO.asp?ID=37401ff8-09e6-4547-808e-9dd63a8b9a58