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ABSTRACT INFORMATION
Title: 'The Building Blocks of a Medical Home for Children with Hearing Loss' Track: 4-Medical Home Audience: Primary Audience: Secondary Audience: Tertiary Audeince: Keyword(s): Medical Home, Hearing Loss Learning Objectives: • Define the role of the medical home in EHDI • Identify the building blocks needed to provide a medical home for all children and youth, including those that fail the newborn screen and/or are identified as at risk for or with hearing loss • Apply strategies identified to begin implementing of medical home Abstract: A medical home is not a building, house, or hospital, but rather an approach to providing health care services in a high-quality and cost-effective manner. Children and their families who have a medical home receive the care that they need from a medical provider whom they trust. The Maternal and Child Health Bureau, as a part of their efforts to promote universal newborn hearing screening, diagnosis, and intervention, has encouraged that early hearing detection and intervention services be linked with a medical home. Further one of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s national goals is to ensure that all infants diagnosed with hearing loss have a medical home because it is such a critical component in the success of the EHDI program. Handouts: Handout is not Available
SPEAKER INFORMATION
PRESENTER(S): Dr. Alan Grimes - FAAP      Credentials: MD, FAAP       R. Alan Grimes, MD, FAAP is a pediatrician in private practice in Kansas City, Missouri. He serves as the Missouri EHDI Chapter Champion and is on the AAP Task Force on EHDI. As a primary care practitioner, Dr. Grimes has a strong interest in promoting the medical home as the ideal setting in which all children and youth receive the highest level of care. Dr. Debra Waldron - FAAP      Credentials: MD, MPH, FAAP       Dr. Debra Waldron is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University Of Iowa College Of Medicine and the Director and Chief Medical Officer of the Child Health Specialty Clinics, Iowa’s Title V Program for Children with Special Health Care Needs. She is also the Medical Director for the Iowa Department of Public Health’s Division of Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention. Dr. Waldron serves on many councils and committees on the state and national level that are focused on early child development, Native American child health, and children with special health care needs. She also serves as the Vice President of the IA Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and on the national AAP Early Hearing and Detection Task Force. Her special interests are in health equity, social determinants of health, and quality improvement. Vicki Hunting - Expecting Health      Credentials: BA, Parent of young adult with hearing loss      Other Affiliations: Quality Improvement Advisor       Vicki Hunting lives in Des Moines, Iowa with her husband Mark and two daughters; the youngest a young adult with a profound hearing loss. She has worked in project management, process re-engineering and quality/process improvement for over 18 years. In her more recent experience she is a Quality and Operational Improvement Engineer at the University of Iowa, Division of Child and Community Health and trains others on quality improvement approaches to improve systems of care for Iowa's children and youth with special healthcare needs. She has experience using the Model for Improvement as a framework for quality improvement projects; testing, implementing and spreading changes. Using data for improvement, developing and interpreting run charts and control charts, utilization of Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle to test changes are also part of her experiences. Vicki is on staff at H&V HQ and has been involved in the Iowa H&V Chapter for over 11 years.   AUTHOR(S):