2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
3/09/2020 | 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Improving Outcomes for Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing: Implementing a New Tool to Measurably Improve Care Integration and Coordination | Empire C
Improving Outcomes for Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing: Implementing a New Tool to Measurably Improve Care Integration and Coordination
Screening, identifying, and providing intervention for pediatric hearing loss in a timely and appropriate manner supports healthy social and emotional development for children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH). Children who are DHH need high quality pediatric primary and subspecialty care. They also require access to additional health services compared to their typically hearing peers, including, but not limited to establishing relationships with an audiologist, Early Interventionist, special education providers, or other pediatric clinicians. The time and responsibility required to coordinate these services for children who are DHH is often assumed by parents or family caregivers who may not have access to all the resources needed to navigate the complicated healthcare landscape. Care coordination and care integration of EHDI into the medical home is not only essential for healthy development of children who are DHH but also provides support to families.
This breakout session will introduce participants to the Maternal and Child Health Bureau funded Pediatric Care Coordination Curriculum (PCCC), 2nd Edition. Utilizing an approach to interprofessional training-- including families as faculty and co-learners—the faculty will guide workshop attendees through an overview of the curriculum, as well as offer experience-based technical support for its adaptation and implementation. Examples of how care coordination and integration can be measured and improved will be offered.
This curriculum was created through a subcontract between Boston Children’s Hospital and the American Academy of Pediatrics with support from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau. The curriculum is designed to build capacity among diverse stakeholders by effective implementation of key components of care coordination, including measurement; collaborative communication with inter-professional care teams and family/professional partners; social determinants of health; and investment in technology solutions.
- Discuss the importance of care coordination for children who are deaf or hard of hearing
- Identify strategies and tools to implement care coordination capacity building activities within the EHDI system, specifically aiming to improve care integration with medical home and other key stakeholders
- Describe the Pediatric Care Coordination Curriculum, 2nd Edition and various modules within
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Presenters/Authors
Christina Boothby
(), American Academy of Pediatrics, cboothby@aap.org;
Christina Boothby is Senior Manager, Systems of Care and Medical Home Initiatives at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Principal Investigator of the National Resource Center for Patient/Family-Centered Medical Home (NRC-PFCMH), including the AAP Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) program. In this role, she provides support and strategic direction to the NRC-PFCMH and EHDI, health care providers, Title V programs, and other key stakeholders in developing integrated, community-based, family-centered systems of care initiatives that improve access to health care services for children and youth with special health care needs via medical home. Christina has extensive experience in program management, program evaluation, maternal and child health, public health, and quality improvement. She has a Master of Public Affairs with concentrations in Nonprofit Management and Public Policy Analysis from Indiana University.
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Müge Chavdar
(), American Academy of Pediatrics, mchavdar@aap.org;
Müge Chavdar is the program manager of two projects between the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Maternal and Child Health Bureau. These projects are the National Resource Center for Patient/Family-Centered Medical Home and the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention program. Ms Chavdar has worked at the AAP since 2017. Prior to joining the AAP, she completed a Master’s of Public Health in Community Health Sciences with a concentration in MCH from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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