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Quality Health Care and System Performance

A number of characteristics make up a health care system that provides high quality care for children and adolescents, including access to care, adequate health insurance coverage, access to specialists when needed and receipt of care within a medical home.

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Medical Home Data Portal

National Survey of Children's Health

Minimal Quality Index: Children have adequate insurance, receive ongoing and coordinated care within a medical home, and had at least one preventive care visit in the past 12 months

National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs

MCHB Core Outcomes

Outcome 1: CSHCN whose families are partners in decision-making at all levels and are satisfied with the services they receive
Outcome 2: CSHCN who receive coordinated, ongoing, comprehensive care within a medical home
Outcome 3: CSHCN whose families have adequate private and/or public insurance to pay for the services they need
Outcome 4: CSHCN who are screened early and continuously for special health care needs
Outcome 5: CSHCN whose services are organized in ways that families can use them easily
Outcome 6: Youth with special health care needs who receive the services necessary to make appropriate transitions to adult health care, work and independence -- CSHCN ages 12-17 only

Met all age appropriate MCHB Core Outcomes:

This project of the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI) supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under Cooperative Agreement U59MC27866, The National Maternal and Child Health Data Resource Center. This information, content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government. Additional support for DRC-related projects has come from other funding agencies, including the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) of the National Institutes of Health and Autism Speaks. The surveys that are the original sources of the data were conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics. CAHMI is responsible for the analyses, interpretations, presentations and conclusions included on this site.

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