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MCDIN Request for Information:
The Massachusetts Chronic Disease
Improvement Network/New England Chronic Disease Directory wants to learn more about
innovative models for care and resources around New
England that are currently being used to improve patient care services for
asthma. Don't miss this opportunity for your
organization to:
- Showcase your program/ resources across the
region.
- Market your program to providers and potential
clients.
- Gain access to demonstrated models that work
The New England Chronic Disease Directory is a
comprehensive database about projects and resources being used by health
professionals and institutions to improve chronic disease care for their
patients. The directory is a searchable database and allows users to
share information about their quality improvement and disease management
programs and resources with colleagues from around the region.
To submit your model for care, click here.
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Welcome to Asthma Models for Care:
 This section provides you with access to the
MCDIN/New England Chronic Disease Directory Models for Care database, a resource bank that details clinical
improvement projects across New England that have demonstrated improved
outcomes.
Search
the database for asthma models that work and link to resources to help you plan
and implement a quality improvement project for your particular healthcare
practice.
Do you have a Model for Care to share with your colleagues?
Click Here to tell us more about your
project.
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The EQUIS Project
An Invitation from The National Initiative
for Children's Health Care Quality (NICHQ) to Participate in a Clinical
Trial to Improve the Quality of Health Care for Children. |
The National Initiative for Children's
Healthcare Quality (NICHQ) seeks to make dramatic improvements in the
quality of care for children and adolescents. A program of the Institute
for Healthcare Improvement, NICHQ improves children's healthcare by
raising awareness, undertaking research, and working with clinicians and
practices. For more information, please visit our website.
We would like to invite your practice to participate, without charge,
in a collaborative quality improvement program designed to achieve major
improvements in care and outcomes for children with asthma. Sponsored by the
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the National Heart, Lung, and
Blood Institute, the Evaluating a Quality Improvement Strategy (EQUIS)
project is a randomized clinical trial to determine whether a quality
improvement intervention in primary care practices serving children can
improve the clinical care, health outcomes and the experience of care
for children with this chronic disease. To learn more about EQUIS (4 page
PDF file) and how to
enroll, please click here for
detailed information.
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Call For Proposals
Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation
Funding New Models for Care
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Princeton, NJ - The
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
is soliciting applications for a new national program to improve asthma care for children covered by Medicaid
and the State Children's Health Insurance Plan (CHIP). Six
three-year grants of up to $500,000 are offered.
Grantees will develop clinical models for care to improve the health and
quality of life for children with asthma. Grantees must be managed
care organizations serving at least 20,000 Medicaid of CHIP enrollees or
groups collaborating with such MCO's. (The foundation prefers that
an MCO - health maintenance organization, provider service organization,
or integrated delivery system - serve as the applying organization).
Applications will also be accepted from school-based health clinics,
federally qualified health centers and other community-based clinics
engaged in pediatric asthma management. These organizations must
describe an existing or planned relationship with an MCO that has the
required number of enrollees. In addition, they must partner with other
providers. The foundation is looking for models of systemic change in the
way asthma care is delivered.
Private medical groups, professional associations and universities are not
eligible to apply.
Application is in the form of a five-page letter of intent due September
1, 2000. Full proposals will be
requested from applicants whose letters of intent best match program
criteria.
For more information:
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Patricia Barta
Deputy Director
Improving Asthma Care for Children
Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc.
353 Nassau Street
Princeton, NJ 08540
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Phone:
(609) 279-0700
E-Mail:
pb@chcs.org
Application guidelines are available HERE.
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Articles of Interest:
Helping
Patients Take Charge of their Chronic Illnesses.
Family Practice Management - March 2000
Key Points:
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The old models of care, where physicians tell patients what to do and
try to motivate them to change, do not work.
- Because patients' day-to-day decisions have a tremendous impact on
their health, they must be active, informed participants in the health
care process.
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Physicians can help patients take charge of their conditions by
encouraging them to set self-management goals.
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