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Community Activities – King & Pierce

King   Pierce

King County Team

Current and Upcoming Activities

• Presentations to Eastside primary care clinics about community resources available to physicians and families who have children with special needs
• Part of team meeting with Medicaid Healthy Options case managers
• Team physician, her clinic nurse and clerk from the Eastgate public health clinic participating in the 2006-07 Children's Health Improvement Collaborative to prevent and treat childhood obesity.  Adapting materials for families in Spanish.
• Team physician and CSHCN Coordinator participating in regular planning meetings held by the Adolescent Health Transition Project to explore how to help transition patients to adult care. 
• Exploring whether to begin to send out Child Health Notes to a subset of primary care providers in King County.
• Providing education to county public health nurse team and supervisors on medical home concept.
• Team physician involved in a redesign of her clinic's care teams
• King County and Pierce County CSHCN Coordinators helped Dept of Health develop decision tree diagram to help primary care providers know where to refer a child with health or developmental concerns for help accessing services.  Diagram will be developed into a Child Health Note, spring 2007.
• Working on developing medical home teams in other county health department sites.
• June 2006 presentation by MHLN staff organized by the team for a group of 20 Eastside clinic nurses, school nurses, and family resources coordinators on resources available through the WA Medical Home Website and the Adolescent Health Transition Project.

Past Activities

• Local community education targeting diabetes and asthma
• Have done many presentations to physicians

Medical Home-related Activities in County

• Kids Get Care- Integrated preventive health care for children regardless of insurance status
• Steps to a Healthier US: Federally funded King County consortium to implement community action plans to reduce health disparities and promote quality health care and prevention services.  Target population:  People with household incomes less than 200% of the federal poverty line, English, Spanish, and Vietnamese-speaking people.  Focus on preventing and minimizing chronic health conditions.

  www.healthierus.gov/steps/grantees/Seattle.html

• King County MHLN team physician Dr. Nancy Danoff is a founding member and active participant of the Breastfeeding Coalition of Washington (BCW). In 2000 the "Nancy Danoff, MD, Spirit of Service Award" was established and presented to its namesake, Dr. Nancy Danoff, by the BCW.

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Pierce County Team

Team contact list | County CSHCN Data

Current and Upcoming Activities

• Pierce County and King County CSHCN Coordinators helped Dept of Health develop a decision tree diagram to help primary care providers know where to refer a child with health or developmental concerns for help accessing services.  Diagram will be developed into a Child Health Note, spring 2007.
• Team FRC helped plan spring 2007 MHLN Conference.
• Medical Home Tool kits modeled after Children’s model created.  Presented kits and did short medical home presentations at 10 Pierce County provider sites. Presenting team were Mary Bridge RN, CSHCN Coordinator, and FRC
• Single Point of Entry for Family Resources Coordination has been very helpful in our community. Referral numbers are up.
• Community is expanding outreach efforts for screening children for developmental delay through Childreach.
• A brief review regarding how the facilitation of "Medical Home" concepts are provided for in a teritary setting was completed at Mary Bridge Children's Hospital and Health Center. Mary Bridge Children's Hospital and Health Center provides comprehensive pediatric health services for children residing in Southwest Washington. Many components of facilitating the Medical Home concept were found to be present and working well at Mary Bridge which organizationally considers family centered care and partnership with families and professionals as a primary foundation of care.

Past Activities

• Creation of Pierce County Resource List and CSHCN Pierce County Referral List.
• Sent out Child Health Note on Overweight in Mary Bridge Newsletter "KiteStrings" Mailed to SW WA pediatric primary care providers.
• Article placed in Multicare’s “Med News” which is widely circulated to Pierce County Health Care Providers and into the community. This article described “Medical Home” and offered contact numbers for more information.

Medical Home-related Activities in County

• Team physician presents regularly on adolescent transition issues

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