Medical Home Capacity Building for CSHCN

Program Title

Medical Home Capacity Building for CSHCN

Agency/Sub-Agency

HRSA/MCHB

Description

In February 2001 President Bush released the New Freedom Initiative a comprehensive plan to teardown barriers facing people with disabilities and preventing them from participating fully in community life.This broad interagency initiative calls upon the Federal government to assist States and localities to implement the decision of the Supreme Court in Olmstead v L.C. which requires States to place qualified individuals with mental disabilities in community settings in certain circumstances. As part of this initiative HRSA was charged with developing and implementing a plan to achieve appropriate community based service systems for children and youth with special health care needs and their families.

A core component of community systems is that every child with a special health care need must have access to a medical home a regular ongoing source of health care in the community.The medical home is articulated through the Healthy People 2010 Objectives and is a core performance measure for Title V Maternal and Child Health Programs. This initiative supports the medical home component of the Presidents New Freedom Initiative through a national resource center that will support and promote models best practices implementation and dissemination strategies for ensuring that all children and youth with special health care needs have the services and support necessary for full community inclusion. 

The National Resource Center for Medical Home Implementation cooperative agreement will develop and implement policy initiatives related to:

• achieving medical for children and youth with special health care needs;
• establish and implement strategies for enhancing timely interactive communication including telecommunication among pediatricians, healthcare providers, community leaders, and policy makers concerned with access appropriateness and coordination of primary care with specialty care and the array of other services required for this population of children and families;
• support activities that address barriers to pediatric specialty care access including provider availability and coordination;
• promote activities that establish medical home as the standard of care for all community-based primary care clinicians caring for children with special needs;
• expand and enhance the capacity to collect, analyze and use quantitative and qualitative data to promote medical homes for children with special health care needs;
• facilitate the development of resources that increase access and awareness of the medical home for families and children with special health care needs;
• build upon the operational definition of a medical home utilizing tools that have been developed such as the Medical Home Index; and Continuous Quality Improvement measures and
• assist states in implementation assessment and evaluation of strategies to promote Healthy People 2010 Goals and the Presidents New Freedom Initiative around community based systems of care for children with special health care needs.

Eligible Entity(ies)

As cited in 42CFR Part 51 a.3(a) any public or private entity, including an Indian Tribe or Tribal organization (as those terms are defined in 25 U.S.C. 450b), and if otherwise eligible faith-based and community organizations, are eligible to apply for this Federal funding opportunity. 

Intended Beneficiaries

Children with Health Care Needs

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No.

93.11

CFDA Category

Health

CFDA Sub-Category(ies)

Maternity, Infants, and Children

Keyword(s)

Health Facilities; Maternal and Child Health; Primary Care

HHS Announcement No.

HRSA-08-025

New Funding Opportunity

Yes

Competition Type: (N), (CC) or (M)

N

Single Source / Limited Competition

NA

Est Annual Min Award

$700,000.00

Est Annual Max Award

$700,000

Est Number of Awards

1

Est Posting Date

10/24/2007

Est Application Deadline

1/7/2008

Est Award Date

7/1/2008

Est Start Date

7/1/2008

Program Contact Name

Marie Mann

Program Contact Telephone No.

(301) 443-1080

Program Contact Email

mman@hrsa.gov

Agency Forecast ID No.

HRSA74