Contributors and Acknowledgements

The Commonwealth Fund
The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that supports independent research on health and social issues and makes grants to improve health care practice and policy. The mission of The Commonwealth Fund is to promote a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults. The Fund carries out this mandate by supporting independent research on health care issues and making grants to improve health care practice and policy. An international program in health policy is designed to stimulate innovative policies and practices in the United States and other industrialized countries.

The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that supports independent research on health and social issues and makes grants to improve health care practice and policy. The mission of The Commonwealth Fund is to promote a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults. The Fund carries out this mandate by supporting independent research on health care issues and making grants to improve health care practice and policy. An international program in health policy is designed to stimulate innovative policies and practices in the United States and other industrialized countries.

The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that supports independent research on health and social issues and makes grants to improve health care practice and policy. The mission of The Commonwealth Fund is to promote a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults. The Fund carries out this mandate by supporting independent research on health care issues and making grants to improve health care practice and policy. An international program in health policy is designed to stimulate innovative policies and practices in the United States and other industrialized countries.

www.commonwealthfund.org
 

Vermont Child Health Improvement Program (VCHIP)
Vermont Child Health Improvement Program (VCHIP) is a population-based child health services research and quality improvement program of the University of Vermont. VCHIP's mission is to optimize the health of Vermont's children by initiating and supporting measurement-based efforts to enhance private and public child health practice. VCHIP provides an established mechanism for Vermont's clinicians to continually improve the care they offer children and families throughout Vermont and supports clinicians in their efforts by providing the tested tools and techniques to improve care for specific populations.

www.med.uvm.edu/vchip
 

Center for Health Care Quality
The Center for Health Care Quality, a new center for quality improvement in health care established at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, will be a resource for health care providers throughout the world to make the highest-quality care a reality for children and their families. The Center for Health Care Quality is the result of a merger of the Center for Children's Healthcare Improvement, formerly based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Center for Health Policy and Clinical Effectiveness at Cincinnati Children's, which not only does improvement work but also conducts research into interventions that improve health outcomes in the community and the home.

www.cincinnatichildrens.org
 

Vermont Department of Health
The Vermont Department of Health's vision is to have the nation's premier system of public health, enabling Vermonters to lead healthy lives in healthy communities. The Department of Health is proud to continue a long tradition of public health service and commitment to excellence in maternal and child health in Vermont. As the state's lead agency for public health policy and advocacy, the Department developed a blueprint for continuing to improve the health of Vermonters, known as Healthy Vermonters 2010. This document includes several measurable maternal, infant and child health objectives related to developmental services.

healthvermont.gov
 

The Center for Children's Healthcare Improvement (CCHI)
The Center for Children's Healthcare Improvement (CCHI) is a North Carolina statewide program to improve healthcare for children. The mission of the Center is to eliminate the gap between what is and what could be in healthcare for children and adolescents in North Carolina.

Activities of the Center include: communication, advocacy and partnership development; improving clinical care for children; gathering and distributing information for improvement; training current and future clinicians, and research.

childhealthimprovement.org
 

The North Carolina Division of Medical Assistance (NC DMA)
The Division of Medical Assistance manages Medicaid and NC Health Choice for Children for the state of North Carolina. The mission of the DMA is to manage the Medicaid program efficiently so that cost effective health care services are available through enrolled providers to all eligible persons across the state of North Carolina. Medicaid is a health insurance program for certain low-income and needy people paid with federal, state, and county dollars. It covers more than 1 million people in North Carolina, including children, the aged, blind, and/or disabled, and people who are eligible to receive federally assisted income maintenance payments.

www.dhhs.state.nc.us/dma