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The Illinois Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics (ICAAP) is taking the lead on implementing the medical home quality improvement program of the CHIPRA grant for the State of Illinois.  Using our experience in quality improvement and building medical homes, ICAAP will support up to 200 practices under the medical home quality improvement program.

Under the program, practices will take the key first step to improving the quality of their practice by assessing their “medical homeness” through a self-assessment process using the National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA)  2011 standards for Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) program.  This self-assessment will be free of charge for practices and will allow each practice to see its strengths and areas of need.  At the same time, the self-assessment scores will help ICAAP build targeted technical assistance for the practices in this program.   Specifically, ICAAP will lead quality improvement initiatives focusing both on systems issues identified through the self-assessments, such as care coordination, and specific CHIPRA core child health measures.

All practices in the program will have access to existing resources and be able to take part in new training opportunities designed by ICAAP that will address building a medical home and/or improving practice around specific child health outcomes. Practices will not have to complete a minimum number of trainings or activities and will be able to access many of the trainings online. In addition, ICAAP will work more intensely with a smaller group of practices (target level of 30-60 practices) in activities such as modified learning collaboratives and peer mentoring, beginning in 2012.  All training provided under the CHIPRA grant will be at no cost to participating practices.

This program is intended to strengthen practices’ medical homes, thus improving the content, efficiency and quality of services for the children they serve.  These changes have been show to improve satisfaction and outcomes for practices and families, alike. We envision the program will also help ICAAP identify key barriers to the provision of quality services, which can then be addressed at the community- and state-level, as necessary and possible. Furthermore, this work will integrate with Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services’ Medical Assistance Program’s policy.  ICAAP will jointly work with our grant partners to explore options for incorporating provider incentives such as bonus or care management payment, CME credit, NCQA certification, and American Board of Pediatrics’ Part 4 Maintenance of Certification (MOC) credit into these initiatives. (Please see the Benefits of Participation document below for more information.)

For more information on the medical home quality improvement program and to sign-up to conduct your own practice’s medical home assessment and participate in quality improvement activities around medical home concepts or clinical topics, please complete the Practice Registration Form.

 Resources:

Program Webinars:

Introduction to NCQA’s Self-Assessment on Patient-Centered Medical Homes webinar for the IL CHIPRA Medical Home Program

Frequently Asked Questions:

IL CHIPRA Medical Home FAQs

Benefits of Participating in the Program:

IL CHIPRA Medical Home Benefits of Participation

National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA) Patient-Centered Medical Home Standards and Recognition Program:

http://www.ncqa.org/tabid/631/default.aspx

National Center for Medical Home Implementation:

http://www.medicalhomeinfo.org/

Illinois Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics Medical Home Initiatives:

http://illinoisaap.org/projects/medical-home/

ICAAP Medical Home Training Modules:

http://illinoisaap.org/2010/12/medical-home-learning-session-2-videos/

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If you have questions or comments about CHIPRA, please contact:

Lauren Seemeyer, MPH
ICAAP Project Director, CHIPRA Demonstration Project
lseemeyer@illinoisaap.com
312/733-1026 ext 237

Gwen Smith
IL Project Director, CHIPRA Quality Demonstration
Gwen.Smith@illinois.gov
217-557-5438