Sustaining and Spreading Child Health Quality Improvement Partnerships to Promote Child Development Screening and Surveillance, Phase 3
Award Amount:
$252,143
Approval Date:
November 11, 2008
Start Date:
April 1, 2009
End Date:
September 30, 2010
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College
UHC Campus, St. Joseph 7
One South Prospect Street
Burlington, Vermont 05410
Principal Investigator:
Judith Shaw, R.N., M.P.H., Ed.D.
With Commonwealth Fund support, the Vermont Child Health Improvement Program (VCHIP)—a self-sustaining organization that builds on a broad-based partnership that takes a measurement-based, systems approach to improving pediatric care—has been successfully replicated in 10 states. In the third phase of work, the project team will spread the VCHIP model to another 10 states while continuing to provide support to existing improvement partnership sites. In addition, the team will build a national resource center, including a new Web site, to provide a foundation for future collaboration among the sites and expanded policy work at the federal and state levels.