ABCD III: Improving Care Coordination, Case Management, and Linkages to Support Healthy Child Development, Year 3
Award Amount:
$282,000
Approval Date:
April 12, 2011
Start Date:
June 1, 2011
End Date:
May 31, 2012
Center for Health Policy Development
National Academy for State Health Policy
10 Free Street, 2nd Floor
Portland, Maine 04101
Principal Investigator:
Jill Rosenthal, M.P.H.
Directed by the National Academy for State Health Policy, the current Commonwealth Fund-supported Assuring Better Child Health and Development (ABCD) initiative selected five states through a competitive process to test transformative models of care coordination-a critical component of high-quality, efficient health care. The two previous ABCD projects resulted in states' adoption of developmental screening policies and the incorporation of screening measures into the National Survey of Child Health and the Child Health Insurance Program. The current ABCD initiative is helping Arkansas, Illinois, Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Oregon develop integrated, community-based systems of care coordination for children. In the third year of ABCD, the project team will evaluate the care coordination pilot programs and disseminate findings.