Project Connect: Medical Home
A Medical Home, as defined by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), is not a place but rather an approach to providing high quality health care services to children with disabilities or special health care needs and their families. A medical home is defined by care that is:
- Accessible
- Family-centered
- Continuous
- Comprehensive
- Coordinated
- Compassionate
- Culturally competent
The goal of Project Connect: Medical Home is to develop, implement, disseminate, and evaluate a medical home for infants and toddlers with special health care needs and disabilities and their families receiving early intervention in Connecticut. The project will initially provide access and enhanced coordination and collaboration with a medical home for families with children with special health care needs and disabilities receiving early intervention in one of 38 cities and towns in North Central Connecticut; thereafter, it will be replicated throughout Connecticut and disseminated throughout the nation.
Project Connect: Medical Home is addressing Objective 17.20 of Healthy People 2000 to have service systems for children with special health care needs. The medical home model will consist of a medical home as defined by each individual family's needs and involvements with other state or community programs (e.g., Title V, children with special health care needs, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), child care, etc.) and will utilize the medical home checklist from the AAP.
Project Connect: Medical Home is a three-year model demonstration project funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Grant #90DN0084I). The project is sponsored by the University of Connecticut, Department of Pediatrics in collaboration with The Family Center at Connecticut Children's Medical Center.
Publications
For publications regarding this project, please contact:
Gabriela Freyre-Calish, M.S.W.
University of Connecticut
Center for Developmental Disabilities
263 Farmington Ave.
Farmington, CT 06030
860.679.1563
freyre@nso2.uchc.edu
Contact
Mary Beth Bruder, Ph.D.
University of Connecticut
Center for Developmental Disabilities
263 Farmington Ave.
Farmington, CT 06030
Phone: 860-679-1500
Fax: 860-679-1571
Email: Bruder@nso1.uchc.edu
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