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Medical Home Training Program - November 6, 2004

Target Audience | Course Objectives |State Resource Info | Schedule | Faculty
 
Overview
The University of Illinois Division of Specialized Care for Children (DSCC), the Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (ICAAP), and the American Academy of Pediatrics offered a Medical Home Training Program at the Shriners Hospitals for Children, Chicago, on November 6, 2004 from 8:45am to 1:30pm.

The program aimed to support pediatric health care providers, children with special health care needs and their families, and communities interested in the well being of special needs children in a changing health care environment. The program also aimed to enhance primary care physicians (pediatricians and family physicians), pediatric specialists and other attendees' understanding and knowledge about incorporating the medical home model into their practice and providing a medical home for children with special health care needs.

Target Audience
The target audience included board-certified or board-eligible primary care physicians (pediatricians and family physicians), pediatric specialists, allied health care professionals and families of children with special health needs.

Course Objectives
After completing this course, participants will be able to:

1. define a "medical home" and its core elements;
2. define children with special health care needs (CSHCN);
3. examine office practices with the philosophy that the "medical home" is the basis to care for CSHCN;
4. recognize the importance of partnering with families;
5. understand the role of DSCC care coordinators;
6. identify practical methods of accommodating CSHCN into their practices including physical and procedural changes;
7. be familiar with some of the coding and reimbursement issues specific to CSHCN coordinated with DSCC;
8. understand the key characteristics that should guide physicians in providing coordinated care to CSHCN and their families;
9. define secondary level health services and list the requirements for enhancing the competencies of primary care physicians and nurses; and
10. understand the necessary and ideal qualifications of the varied specialists who care for CSHCN.

State Resource Information
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Schedule
Time
Sessions
8:00-8:45
Registration/Continental Breakfast/Resource Tables
8:45-9:30

The Illinois Medical Home Model

9:30-10:20

Transition Issues for CYSHCN

10:20-10:30

Break/Resource Tables

10:30-11:30

Concurrent Sessions
Reimbursement Strategies for Primary Care Providers
Understanding the Medical Home Model & How to Be More Proactive

11:30-12:30

Lunch & Interactive Session: Community Resources

12:30-1:15

Family-Professional Partnerships:
Personal Perspectives

1:15-1:30

Closing Remarks and Evaluations

Faculty
The Illinois Medical Home Model
Charles N. Onufer, MD, Director, Division of Specialized Care for Children (DSCC)

Transition Issues for CYSHCN
Darcy Contri, DSCC Transition Project
Alicia Becker, DSCC Transition Project

Concurrent Sessions:
Reimbursement Opportunities for Primary Care Providers:

H. Garry Gardner, MD, Pediatrician

Understanding Medical Home & Becoming a Proactive Parent:

Robert J. Cook, BA, Family Liaison Specialist, DSCC

Community Resources: Interactive Session/Q & A

Moderators: Shelly Roat, Donna Scherer & Rita Klemm - DSCC Medical Home
Project and Program Exhibitors

Family-Professional Partnership: The Foundation of the Medical Home Model

Robert J. Cook, BA, Family Liasion Specialist, DSCC - Moderator and a panel
including a family & their child with special health care needs, their Primary
Care Physician & other community resource providers, including DSCC.

Funding for this event has been provided by an education grant from Shriners Hospitals for Children with additional support from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau.

The CME Office at the American Academy of Pediatrics
reserves the right to cancel this activity for any reason whatsoever.
In the event of such cancellation, the full enrollment fee will be returned to the registrant

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