Initial Core Children’s Health Care Quality Measures
Posted on: April 4, 2012

About Medical Home | For Providers | For Youth & Families
A medical home is an approach to providing primary care that is accessible, continuous, comprehensive, family-centered, coordinated, compassionate, and culturally effective. In a medical home, the primary care team develops a trusting relationship with the family and works as a partner to assure that all of the child’s needs are met.
ICAAP and Partners Win New Grant for Medical Homes
Posted on: October 18, 2011
The Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (ICAAP) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded one of 12 new Integrated Community Systems for Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) grants. You can read the full press release on this grant here.
2011 ABC Conference Announces Full Agenda and CME
Posted on: October 5, 2011
The 2011 ABC Conference, occurring November 18 at the University of Chicago Gleacher Center, was approved for 6.75 AMA PRA Category 1 CME Credit(s)™. Speakers include leaders in research, advocacy, and medicine. For the conference brochure and registration information, click here.
Health Care Reform and Children with Special Health Care Needs: Workshop
Posted on: October 3, 2011
Registration Open for 2011 ABC Conference
Posted on: September 2, 2011
Registration is now open for the second annual ABC Conference. The conference will be held on Friday, November 18, 2011 at the Gleacher Center. You can register here. The conference will focus on evidence-based and concrete strategies to address the struggles primary care providers encounter related to Autism, Behavioral challenges and Complex medical needs (ABC).
New Trainings for Early Intervention
Posted on: August 29, 2011
ICAAP and its partners, Advocate Health Care Healthy Steps, the Illinois EI Training Program, and the Illinois Bureau of EI, are proud to offer a series of four new trainings from the Coordinating Care between EI and the Primary Care Medical Home Project.
New Web-Based Training for Standardized Illinois Early Intervention Referral Form
Posted on: August 16, 2011
ICAAP’s projects “Coordinating Care between Early Intervention and the Primary Care Medical Home” and “Illinois Healthy Beginnings II” have worked to bridge systemic care for young children at risk for developmental delay. Both projects have developed tools and resources to improve care coordination and access by working with primary care providers, Early Interventionists, and families throughout Illinois. Two tools, “The Referral Fax Back Form” for Early Intervention Service Coordinators and “The Standardized Illinois Early Intervention Referral Form” for primary care providers, were developed in the Coordinating Care project and reached wider implementation with IHB2.
Web-Based Training on Referral Fax Back Form for Early Intervention
Posted on: August 16, 2011
ICAAP’s projects “Coordinating Care between Early Intervention and the Primary Care Medical Home” and “Illinois Healthy Beginnings II” have worked to bridge systemic care for young children at risk for developmental delay. Both projects have developed tools and resources to improve care coordination and access by working with primary care providers, Early Interventionists, and families throughout Illinois. Two tools, “The Referral Fax Back Form” for Early Intervention Service Coordinators and “The Standardized Referral Form” for primary care providers and other EI referral sources, were developed in the Coordinating Care project and reached wider implementation with IHB2.
Coordinating Care Between Early Intervention and the Primary Care Medical Home: A Statewide Training
Posted on: August 16, 2011
ICAAP is proud to announce a new statewide web-based training, “Coordinating Care between Early Intervention and the Primary Care Medical Home.”
Coordinating Care Between Early Intervention and the Primary Care Medical Home: National Training
Posted on: August 16, 2011
ICAAP is proud to announce a new web-based training, “Coordinating Care between Early Intervention and the Primary Care Medical Home.”






