WA State Medical Home Website

Supporters

Partners

WA State Medical Home Plan

Healthy People 2010 Goals

Other Medical Home Websites

FAQs

Contact Us

Suggestions for this site?

Washington State Medical Home Website

Purpose

The website brings together practical and current tools, strategies, and information designed to help physicians and other health care providers in Washington State care for children, youth and families with special health care needs. 

The website is also designed to support youth and families in understanding how to partner with their health care providers, understand their health conditions, and make informed health care decisions. 

The Washington State Medical Home Website partners with the Washington State Department of Health Children with Special Health Care Needs Program, American Academy of Pediatrics National Center of Medical Home Initiatives for Children with Special Needs and other states to assure every child and youth with special needs has a medical home.

What will you find on the Website?

Website Audiences

Content

Personnel and Funding

Acknowledgements

What will you find on the Website?

• Resources filtered for you by experts at the University of Washington’s Center on Human Development and Disability and other experts in the state
  • To help you in your practice and alleviate time-consuming searches ( e.g. clinical guidelines, peer-reviewed resources)
  • To share with families

• Practical, up-to-date information to strengthen medical home partnerships and improve the health and well-being of children and youth with special health care needs and their families  

• WHO to go to and HOW to get there: Connections with health care professionals, other service providers and family support in Washington State

• Advice for families in interacting with their medical home primary care provider and other service providers, locating community resources and managing health information

• Tips and tools for optimizing partnerships with other community service providers

Back to top

Website Audiences

• Physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and their office staff

• Community services providers (e.g. public health nurses, early intervention providers, parent support services, child care providers, nutritionists etc.)

• Families with children and youth with special health care needs

• Medical Home Leadership Network Community Teams and other advocates

• Policymakers

Back to top

Content

New information and resources are being added to the Medical Home website on a continual basis.  Feedback from users is important in prioritization of updates and additions.  Suggestions for topics and materials come from physicians, nurses, families, family resources coordinators, state agencies, university faculty, community Medical Home Leadership Network teams and others.  MHLN staff work with state experts in each content area to determine which resources to include. 

Back to top

Personnel and Funding

The Medical Home Website is managed and maintained by staff at the Medical Home Leadership Network, Center on Human Development and Disability(CHDD), University of Washington, in cooperation with CHDD's Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) program. 

Primary funding comes from the Washington State Department of Health, Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) Program which actively collaborates on the website through CSHCN Program staff and contractors.   Funding from the US Maternal and Child Health Bureau (Grant HO2MC 00079) and the American Academy of Pediatrics National Center of Medical Home Initiatives for Children with Special Needs supported the development and expansion of the website. 

Additional input:

• Other supporters
• State agency and organization partners. 

Back to top

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the many Medical Home Leadership Team members and other medical home advocates for their generous contributions to this website.  Particular thanks go to:

• Margaret Jahn, ARNP, CSHCN Coordinator and Whatcom County MHLN team member
• John Taylor, MD, FAAP, retired member of the Kitsap County MHLN team
• Carla Salldin, MHLN Parent Consultant (2000-2004)

The website was designed and built by Fuse IQ, in close collaboration with MHLN staff. Ongoing technical development and maintence is provided by Faye Louie and Greg Owen, CHDD graphic designer and webmaster.

Back to top