Goal: Create an environment and mechanisms that promote high quality care

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Tips:

• Identify and engage key clinical leaders for change (individuals and organizations, such as AAP, AAFP)
• Engage payers and employers in improvement efforts, identify and address financial barriers to better care; engage pediatric councils that work with insurers on coverage and reimbursement
• Develop greater capacity in effective treatment centers for children requiring such services
• Adopt effective improvement strategies organization wide
• Engage senior leadership (including public and private payers) to promote leadership on youth overweight and drive improvement efforts
• Facilitate care coordination throughout the health system [1]
• Assess organizational and individual understanding of culturally and linguistically effective care and implement appropriate strategies for making and sustaining improvements

[1] Care coordination is assessing the needs and resources of the child/family, linking the child/family to appropriate services, and monitoring the care they receive. 

 

Healthy Care for Healthy Kids Learning Collaborative (A Partnership of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and NICHQ)