Care Coordination
Care Coordination
Care coordination is a process that involves linking children and their families with health care and community supports and services in an effort to achieve good health.
Coordination services may be available from health care and community-based organizations. These services can address medical, social, developmental, behavioral, financial and educational aspects of health. Coordination may include sharing information with different agencies as well as active connection to health care and community services. Children and families are always at the center of the support.
The Medical Home Initiative collaborates with clinical, public health and community organizations across Wisconsin to improve support systems of coordination that promote family-centered practice. We invite you to collaboratively pursue solutions to challenges in systems of coordination that benefit all children and families.
There are three learning community projects: Shared Plan of Care, Developmental Screening and Food Insecurity and Health. These learning communities are focused on testing ways to improve systems of coordination or early intervention.
AAP policy statement: Patient- and Family-Centered Care Coordination: A Framework for Integrating Care for Children and Youth Across Multiple Systems (2014)
Building Capacity for Health and Food Systems to Partner
The Food Insecurity and Health pilot aims to strengthen communication between food systems and primary care providers to address food insecurity and health of children including those with chronic health conditions.
2022 Learning Community Calls
For more information on the Health and Food Systems Pilot, please contact Geeta Wadhwani.
Clinician Resources
- National Resource Center for Patient/Family-Centered Medical Home
Provides practices with care coordination tools to start and sustain the medical home transformation process. - Boston Children’s Hospital Care Coordination Curriculum
Support the provision of family-centered care coordination with this comprehensive training curriculum. - Family Voices of Wisconsin: Coordinating your Child’s Health Care
Learn about the importance of having coordinated care, a medical home and integrated health care for every child. Also available in Spanish. - Wisconsin Care Coordination for Children and Youth Mapping Project
View a strength and gap analysis (mapping exercise) of current care coordination activities being implemented across the state.
Family Resources
- National Resource Center for Patient/Family-Centered Medical Home
Find tools and resources to help coordinate your child’s care.
- Family Voices of Wisconsin: Coordinating your Child’s Health Care
Learn about the importance of having coordinated care, a medical home and integrated health care for every child.
- Pediatric Care Plan Template
See an example of a shared plan of care from the American Academy of Pediatrics. Talk to your provider about developing a plan for your child.
Contact Our Staff
Colleen Lane
Project Manager
Medical Home
(608) 442-4177
clane@childrenswi.org
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The Wisconsin Medical Home Initiative is funded by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services’ Title V Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs Program and the Maternal Child Health Program located in the Division of Public Health.
