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Getting Started
The following guidelines will help you develop a plan of action for using
the Child Health Notes.
- Identify the support and commitment of individuals and organizations in your community to participate in this project.
- Solicit endorsement from your Medical Home Team, Local Health Jursidiction, County Interagency Coordinating Council, and/or other community agencies or health plans. Support and promotion from community organizations, and crediting their contributions brings credibility to the Child Health Note.
- Establish a small working committee to be responsible for your local Child Health Note project.
- Identify source(s) for funding the project. For hard copies, costs will include printing, preparation of mailing labels and postage. Some Washington communities have found creative ways to cover these costs:
- Distribute Child Health Notes to physicians at the local hospital where volunteers place them into physicians' mailboxes.
- Include the Child Health Note in a newsletter that is already being sent to physicians on a regular basis.
- Distribute Child Health Notes by email.
- Take the Child Health Notes to pertinent meetings for distribution.
- Establish a distribution list. Include pediatricians, family practice physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, public health nurses, family resource coordinators and health care plans. Consider distribution to also include early intervention providers, mental health providers, childcare providers and early childhood educators. Some counties include specialty medical practitioners for certain topics, such as OB-GYN and Internal Medicine physicians.
- Distribute the Child Health Notes on a regular basis. Some Washington counties send CHNs out every two months and others send them out quarterly. Mailing CHNs regularly adds consistency and credibility to the Health Notes.
- Highlight an up-coming local or regional continuing education event. Devite a text box to announce the event.
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