Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health
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The State of the States in Delivering Health Care for Children in Foster Care: Findings of a State Survey
/in Policy Reports Health Coverage and Access, Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health /by NASHPA 1999 survey of states by the National Academy for State Health Policy sought to examine the specific policies and procedures states have adopted to minimize these barriers and to ensure that the health care needs of children in foster care are met. The survey questionnaire was mailed to both Medicaid and Chief Welfare officials […]
Medicaid Eligibility Policy for Children in Foster Care
/in Policy Reports Health Coverage and Access, Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health /by NASHPAccording to a 1995 report by the General Accounting Office, the 300,000 children living in foster care are among the most vulnerable children in the U.S. As a group, they are sicker than homeless children and children living in the poorest sections of inner cities. This high level of health care need makes health care […]
Keeping a Focus on Children in Health Care Reform
/in Policy Reports Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health /by NASHPFor a complete slide presentation, click here. This is the second of a two-part webinar series on children’s coverage. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides numerous tools for states to improve health coverage, including for children. However, the focus in implementation is primarily on the adults who will become newly eligible for affordable coverage […]
Quality Improvement Techniques to Improve Care Coordination: An Assuring Better Child Health and Development (ABCD) Webinar
/in Policy Webinars Chronic and Complex Populations, Health Coverage and Access, Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health /by NASHPState health agencies can catalyze the development of systems to improve care coordination between primary care and community service providers. This NASHP webinar, sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund, focuses on lessons from ABCD III states as they developed quality improvement (QI) projects in partnership with physicians and community organizations to improve care coordination for children […]
Policies for Care Coordination Across Systems: Lessons from ABCD III
/in Policy Reports Chronic and Complex Populations, Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health /by NASHP and Neva KayeHow can states help primary care providers (PCPs) and community service providers coordinate care? In NASHP’s third Assuring Better Child Health and Development learning collaborative (ABCD III), five state teams (AR, IL, OK, OR, and MN) have piloted projects to systematize care coordination between PCPs of young children with potential developmental delay and community providers, […]
Identifying and Addressing Barriers to Accessing Early Intervention Services
/in Policy Webinars Chronic and Complex Populations, Health Coverage and Access, Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health /by NASHPEarly Intervention services can play a valuable role in promoting the healthy development of at-risk infants and young children. All too often, however, families and children who would benefit from Early Intervention services face barriers to accessing them. This Alumni webinar, sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund, focused on a new study that identifies potential barriers […]
Keeping Children’s Coverage Strong in the Context of the Affordable Care Act: Perspectives from State Children’s Health Insurance Leaders
/in Policy Reports Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health /by NASHP and Catherine HessWith passage of the Affordable Care Act, the stakes for children’s coverage perhaps have never been higher. Children potentially have much to gain in coverage for themselves and for their parents. However, they also have much to lose in shifting attention, and in unintended consequences of reforms focused on adults. To examine the options for […]
Health Care of Children in Foster Care: Who’s Keeping Track?
/in Policy Reports Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health /by NASHPAccording to the data from the Administration on Children Youth and Families there are an estimated 600,000 children residing in foster care in our country. Each of these children enter foster care with a background of abuse or neglect sufficient to warrant being removed from their families. The children entering care present complex medical and […]
Improving Health Care for Children in Foster Care: Alternative Delivery Models
/in Policy Reports Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health /by NASHPIncreasingly, the system for delivery of health and medical care to children in foster care is perceived as less than adequate to achieve the most desired outcomes for these children. While never viewed as having been the perfect system, the shortcomings of the current approach have been exacerbated and highlighted by the growth in the […]
Challenges for Decisionmakers: How Managed Competition Could Affect Children with Special Health Care Needs
/in Policy Reports Health Coverage and Access, Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health /by NASHPThis briefing report is written to alert public and private sector decision makers to the potential advantages and disadvantages of a health care reform strategy based on managed competition from the perspective of an important and vulnerable population — children with special health care needs. Nearly a third of all children in the U.S. currently […]
For individuals living with complex, often chronic conditions, and their families, palliative care can provide relief from symptoms, improve satisfaction and outcomes, and help address critical mental and spiritual needs during difficult times. Now more than ever, there is growing recognition of the importance of palliative care services for individuals with serious illness, such as advance care planning, pain and symptom management, care coordination, and team-based, multi-disciplinary support. These services can help patients and families cope with the symptoms and stressors of disease, better anticipate and avoid crises, and reduce unnecessary and/or unwanted care. While this model is grounded in evidence that demonstrates improved quality of life, better outcomes, and reduced cost for patients, only a fraction of individuals who could benefit from palliative care receive it. 
Medicaid Reimbursement of Midwifery Services in Minnesota and Washington State Supports Diverse Pathways to Care
/in Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health, Policy Minnesota, Washington Blogs, Featured News Home Maternal Health and Mortality, Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health /by Anoosha Hasan and Emily Creveling