Medical Home Initiatives
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.
Through its medical home initiatives, ICAAP works with individual physicians, primary care practices, and community and state agencies to support the dissemination and implementation of the medical home model, with a focus on improving services for children with special health care needs. ICAAP’s medical home programs are supported through grants from the federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau, the Chicago Community Trust, and the Michael Reese Health Trust.
ICAAP Medical Home Initiatives
The Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics currently operates four medical home initiatives:
Building Medical Homes for ACHNs in Cook County
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. The initiative aims to improve access to quality, comprehensive, and coordinated systems of services for children and families who receive health care through the Cook County Health and Hospital Systems Ambulatory and Community Health Networks [....more]
Medical Home Quality Improvement Program (under the IL CHIPRA Demonstration Grant)
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 medical home initiatives, ICAAP will support up to 200 practices under the medical home quality improvement program. [...more]
Building Community-Based Medical Homes for Children
The Building Community-Based Medical Homes for Children program provides free medical home quality improvement facilitation support and resources to participating practices across the state. The program helps practices to build a medical home and provide high-quality care that is planned, coordinated, and family-centered. [...more]
Coordinating Care Between Early Intervention and the Primary Care Medical Home
Coordinating Care Between Early Intervention and the Primary Care Medical Home aims to overcome barriers to referral and care coordination for children eligible for Early Intervention services by improving communication among primary care practices, Child and Family Connections staff, and families. [...more]
Integrated Systems of Services for Illinois Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
The Integrated Systems of Services project works to improve access to quality, comprehensive, coordinated, community-based services for children and youth with special health care needs and their families by providing resources and training to build medical homes and transition youth with special needs into adult health care systems. [...more]
Featured Resources
Building Community-Based Medical Homes for Children Program Learning Session 2 Recordings
Recordings and handouts from the Building Community-Based Medical Homes for Children Learning Session 2 are available on-demand. [...more]
2011 Medical Home Newsletter
The 2011 Medical Home Newsletter features updates and resources from ICAAP’s programs for transitioning youth to adult health care, medical home quality improvement teams, and [...more]
The Illinois Provider Directory for Children, Youth and Young Adults with Special Health Care Needs is a free online resource that connects individuals with special health care needs with skilled health care providers. Search for providers or sign up to be listed in the directory by visiting www.illinoisproviderdirectory.com.
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For more information about ICAAP’s medical home initiatives, please contact:
Kathy Sanabria, MBA, PMP
Associate Executive Director, Programs
Illinois Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics
1400 W Hubbard, Suite 100
Chicago, IL 60642
Phone: 312/733-1026 ext 208
Fax: 312/733-1791
ksanabria@illinoisaap.com
