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A Tool to Help Better Control Childhood Asthma
A new Partners For Kids “digital dashboard” and algorithm help predict which children are most likely to end up in the emergency department for asthma, allowing pediatricians and other providers to intervene before the emergency happens.
Coordinating and Improving Care for Young People who are Incarcerated
Youth in juvenile detention centers have worse health outcomes than their peers. Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Partners For Kids have created a care coordination team to improve access to health services and resources for those children, even after they are released.
Exploring the Gap in Urban and Rural Health Care For Children
While it’s long been clear that children in rural areas have reduced access to some kinds of health care services compared to their urban peers, understanding the specifics of the care gap has proven difficult, because population-level data on utilization is split among many insurers and providers.
Expanding a Transformational Accountable Care Organization
Dayton Children’s Hospital has invited Partners For Kids®, the United States’ oldest and largest pediatric accountable care organization, to begin operations in west central Ohio and enhance the health of 94,000 children living in the region.
Helping Children With Medical Complexity Navigate the Health Care System
Partners For Kids is responsible for the health of more than 400,000 children – including some who need significant amounts of medical and behavioral health care. The Care Navigation program helps coordinate care for those children and their families, leading to better health outcomes.
How Partners For Kids is Expanding Its Nation-leading Care Coordination Program
Navigating the health care system can be a challenge. For more than a decade, Partners For Kids has helped make it easier for 26,000 young patients who are “medically complex.” The organization is now growing its care coordination program to help even more families.
How Value-Based Care Helps Make Community Investment Possible
Nationwide Children's Chief Financial Officer Luke Brown is charged with carefully managing the finances of one of the United States’ largest pediatric health systems. At the same time, Nationwide Children’s is making significant population health investments, with the goal of keeping children as healthy as possible – and keeping them out of the hospital. In a recent conversation, he spoke of balancing those goals.
The Integrated Care For Kids Project
Nationwide Children’s Hospital and nearly 50 community organizations are leading a $14.5 million initiative to improve the health and well-being of Licking County and Muskingum County children – especially those at increased risk of hospitalization or being placed outside the home.
Medicaid and Young Adult Trauma Patients
Trauma is the leading cause of death for young adults, and more than 30% of young adult trauma patients were uninsured before 2014. Has the Affordable Care Act, and the expansion of Medicaid in some states, had an impact on outcomes? A new study from Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s Abigail Wexner Research Institute helps answer the question.
Meet Partners For Kids
When policy makers and health care leaders talk about “value-based care,” the work exemplified by Partners For Kids is what they mean.