Health Coalition for Children and Youth

Proposed restructure of Sub-Committees for Cover All Kids implementation and federal advocacy

Sub-committees maintained

Enrollment Systems Improvement (formerly Eligibility changes)

Lead:Lan Nguyen

  • Streamlining eligibility determinations and other administrative procedures, including express lane eligibility
  • Improving renewal rates (monitor monthly enrollment rates)
  • Promote system linkages that can result in improved enrollment and renewals(OSPI, DEL, etc.)

Outreach, enrollment,health education, and linkage to care

Lead:Patty Hayes

  • Outreach strategies
  • Coordinated prevention and health education messages
  • Community contracts
  • Online applications (including timeliness of applications)
  • Maximize system linkages that enhance outreach, health education, and connections to care

Program effectiveness/audit

Lead:Lan Nguyen

  • Integration with Government Management Accountability Project (GMAP)
  • Benchmarks to measure success of program
  • Long-term sustainability and durable public support
  • Monitor and comment upon reports due to the legislature, identified in HB 2128 (will link with other sub-committees to do so)

Buy-in Program

Lead:Janet Varon

  • Benefit and program design
  • Implementation
  • Marketing and media

Federal health care reform

Lead:Hugh Ewart and Teresa Mosqueda

  • Track federal legislation
  • Identify advocacy opportunities

Re-distributed sub-committee and topics

Medical home and performance-based contracting

Lead:Kirsten Wysen, Chris Olsen

  • Definition and measures of medical home
  • Definition and measures of culturally effective care
  • Methods to encourage linkages to a medical home
  • Performance measures to assess change in children’s health status

Proposed new sub-committees

Health care quality and improvement

Lead: Open; Lead would ideally be someone with experience in quality improvement issues

Health improvement and outcomes

  • Track health care quality called for under state and federal laws
  • Topics from the Medical home sub-committee
  • Performance measures to assess change in children’s health status

Access to Care

Lead: Lisa Podell

  • Methods to encourage linkages to a medical home
  • Track enrolled kids’ access across state and help mitigate if problem areas found
  • Determine systems for measuring if medical and dental homes are established
  • Consider creating incentives for outreach workers and providers to get kids medical and dental homes as the laws call for
  • Topics from the Medical home sub-committee
  • Definition and measures of medical home
  • Methods to encourage linkages to a medical home

Racial and ethnic disparities

Lead: OPEN

  • Create proposals for reducing current disparities
  • Assess impact of proposed policies on communities of color, and develop alternatives that will mitigate unwanted consequences
  • Topics from Medical home sub-committee
  • Definition and measures of culturally effective care

Immunizations

Lead: Laurie Lippold

  • Develop proposals for replacement of Universal Purchase
  • Monitor impact of change in the vaccine distribution system
  • Recommend revisions to new program structure and system