Workshop Details

SESSION: PS2
ROOM
DATE Wednesday, June 17, 2015
TIME 3:14pm-4:30pm
ABSTRACT CATEGORY Accountability
ABSTRACT TITLE

SBHCs in the Era of Accountability – How Documenting our Work Can Transform the Field
ABSTRACT SUMMARY

School-Based Health Alliance has been given an unprecedented opportunity to establish national performance measures for SBHCs. During this session, national child quality experts will discuss the transformation impact that this work will have on the field. The presentation will frame accountability for school-based health care and describe how standardized data can be used advance the school-based health care field.

ABSTRACT DESCRIPTION

In this era of health care reform focused on providing better care to patients in more cost-effective ways, school-based health centers (SBHCs) face an unprecedented opportunity to demonstrate their unique ability to provide care that can influence student wellness and success. The federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau recently partnered with SBHA to establish standardized national performance measures for SBHCs and use learning collaboratives to build the capacity of the field. This initiative offers a solution to the critical absence of national performance measures by which the field can collect and report clinical and population-level indicators as well as measure and compare outcomes. National child quality experts will discuss the transformational effect of this work on the field. The presentation will describe how standardizing data documentation and quality improvement can be used to advance the field and strengthen its accountability. Perspectives from providers and state health departments in states that have undertaken statewide performance measurement initiatives including Colorado, Michigan, and New Mexico, will be shared, and SBHA staff will describe its plans to create and promote the first-ever national performance framework—a common focal point for measuring and publicly reporting outcomes. Presenters will describe how monumental this work is for the field: for the first time, providers and sponsoring organizations, state SBHC program office staff, and other advocates will be able to compare SBHCs against one another to assess the quality of care being delivered to children and adolescents.

PRESENTER(S)

NAME: Maureen  Daly  MD, MPH  ORGANIZATION: QI Consultant
NAME: Jane  McGrath  MD, FAAP  ORGANIZATION: Envision New Mexico
NAME: Lisa  Rutherford  MA  ORGANIZATION: Michigan Department of Community Health
NAME: Hayley  Lofink-Love  PhD  ORGANIZATION: School-Based Health Alliance
NAME: Sherry  Rose  BSN, MSN  ORGANIZATION: Michigan Department of Community Health Child and Adolescent Health Center Program

  
AUDIENCE
ADMINISTRATORS: N
PRIMARY HEALTH: N
MENTALHEALTH: N
ORGANIZATIONAL: Y
PUBLIC HEALTH: Y
EDUCATION: N
YOUTH: N
 
 
   

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