IL Medical Home Initiatives

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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.

The Illinois Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics currently operates three medical home initiatives:

Integrated Systems of Services for Illinois Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs

Coordinating Care Between Early Intervention and the Primary Care Medical Home

Building Community-Based Medical Homes for Children

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For more information about Illinois Medical Home, please contact:

Kathy Sanabria, MBA, PMP
SeniorDirector, Medical Home Initiatives
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

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