A key area of focus for many of OPIP’s projects has been in how to ensure quality of care for children with youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN). In all of these efforts OPIP has ensured that parents and youth with special health care needs guided, reviewed and informed the work led at both the practice and system-level.
This has included:
- Learning Collaboratives, such as the Enhancing Child Health In Oregon (ECHO) Medical Home Learning Collaborative, which supported primary care practices in systemically identify CYSHCN, and ensuring care coordination supports aligned with Bright Futures and Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) recommendations. This work also included ensuring that parents and youth with special health care needs within the practice informed quality improvement efforts.
- Learning Collaborative of State Medicaid agencies like the Tri-State Childrens Health Improvement Consortium in which OPIP supported states in actionable ways to identify CYSHCN and then stratify quality metrics for these populations.
Through this work to support best-match care coordination, OPIP learned from practices and health systems about the need to not only consider a child’s medical complexity, but to consider social complexity factors that impact access to care and ability to follow-through with care.
OPIP led a novel and innovative approach in Oregon to develop and operationalize a method to quantify a child’s health complexity.
- Click here to learn more about this work and how OPIP worked with Oregon Medicaid and Oregon health systems to use a health complexity index to better support improvements in care.
- Click here to learn about how OPIP led efforts in various regions to support communities in focusing on children with health complexity.
- Click here to learn about a collective action effort in Douglas County focused on children with health complexity.
