The Children’s Healthcare Improvement Collaboration (CHIC) Project is a collaborative effort between Idaho and Utah to improve health outcomes and satisfaction among children and families in both states. The five year project is federally funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services through the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act.
Please see below for some of the exciting projects we are currently working on.
Pediatric Patient-Centered Medical Home Demonstration
Beginning in May 2012, the CHIC Project will support three pediatric practices in a demonstration of patient-centered medical home.
Practices selected to participate are:
- Primary Health Medical Group – Pediatrics, Boise
- St. Luke’s Developmental Pediatrics, Boise
- Coeur d’Alene Pediatrics, Coeur d’Alene, Hayden, Post Falls
Support includes funding a part-time care coordinator embedded in the practice, practice coaching, learning collaboratives, and family partners.
Learning Collaboratives
What is a Learning Collaborative? A learning collaborative is an opportunity for pediatric practices to participate in a structured process to improve the quality of care they deliver.
Every Learning collaborative includes:
- A kick-off learning session to hear the evidence behind the "best practices" and learn how to implement process improvement in your practice.
- Ongoing technical assistance and periodic assessments/chart audits, conference calls, and site visits to participating practices.
- A wrap-up session to review progress made and how to creat and implement a plan for sustainability.
The CHIC Project kicked off their first Learning Collaborative on pediatric asthma in September 2011 and will run the project through June 2012 with 8 Pediatric Practices and 20 Pediatricians participating.
The CHIC Project will be launching a new learning collaborative on Immunizations in September 2012 where practices will focus on improving the 2-year old immunization rate for children aged 21-26 months. For more information on this upcoming project and how to participate, please fill out the form above.
Improvement Partnership
The CHIC Project is working with the Utah Pediatric Partnership to Improve Healthcare Quality (UPIQ) and the National Improvement Partnership Network (NIPN) to develop an Idaho improvement partnership. The CHIC Project hosted the NIPN leaders to Idaho to consult with stakeholders in November 2011 and is moving forward in selecting an “institutional home” for Idaho’s Improvement Partnership.
This webpage was developed under grant CFDA 93.767 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. However, these contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.