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Community Activities -King/Pierce

King Team contact list

• Providing education to county public health nurse team and supervisors on medical home concept.
• Working on developing medical home teams in other county health department sites.
• Local community education targeting diabetes and asthma
• Did many physician presentations in past

Pierce Team contact list

• Creation of Pierce County Resource List and CSHCN Pierce County Referral List.

• 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 Tool kits modeled after Children’s model created and will be presented with a short presentation at 10 Pierce County provider sites. Presenting team will be Med Home team leader, CSHCN, 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.