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Health Aspects of Kindergarten Readiness

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From 2017-2021, OPIP worked in collaboration with the Children’s Institute, with support from the Oregon Health Authority (OHA), to support the Health Aspects of Kindergarten Readiness (HAKR) Workgroup recommendations. These recommendations proposed a four-part measurement strategy intended for adoption in the Coordinated Care Organization (CCO) Incentive Metric Set in order to galvanize improvements and transformation efforts that could be stimulated by CCOs to support kindergarten readiness.

Visual of the Health Aspects of Kindergarten Readiness Measurement Strategy Proposal

The four-part measurement strategy includes:

  1. Preventive Dental Visits for Children Ages 1-5: Endorsed for adoption in 2020
  2. Well-Child Visits for Children Ages 3-6: Endorsed for adoption in 2020
  3. CCO-Level Metric Focused on Social-Emotional Health
  4. Follow-Up to Developmental Screening – PENDING development

OPIP has led the development and implementation of two metrics focused on social-emotional health:

  1. The System-Level Social Emotional Health Metric – This metric was within the CCO incentive metric set from 2022-2024.
  2. Young Children Receiving Social-Emotional Issue-Focused Intervention/Treatment Service Metric – This metric has been adopted into the CCO Incentive Metric Set starting in 2025.

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