School-Based Health Center Improvement Partnership
Colorado and New Mexico CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant
This five-year grant project, funded through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, focuses on maximizing the health outcomes of children and adolescents accessing services through school-based health centers SBHCs in Colorado and New Mexico and emphasizing the centers’ SBHCs’ role in the healthcare delivery model.
The grant will evaluate the utilization of a quality improvement model to improve screening, preventive services, management of chronic conditions, follow-up with primary care providers, and assess adolescents’ involvement in their own healthcare.
Specifically, this project seeks to increase the frequency and quality of preventive care services. Specific outcomes include:
- Increasing percentage of children with up-to-date immunization records;
- Increasing the percentage of SBHC patients who receive Chlamydia screens;
- Increasing the percentage of students who receive screenings for depression;
- Improving quality of behavioral healthcare by ensuring appropriate follow-up care results from depression screen;
- Improving child and adolescent obesity prevention and treatment by ensuring that BMI screens take place and appropriate follow-up actions are taken;
- Improving care coordination by helping sites develop ways to track referrals and communication with primary care providers and/or other providers and
- Increasing the percentage of visits that result in communication with primary care providers and percentage of referrals with follow-ups.
- Improving healthcare self-efficacy among the adolescent population in participating SBHCs.