AHRQ awards quality grants to pediatric centers
The Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) has announced cooperative grant awards for the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) Pediatric Quality Measurement Program (PQMP) Centers of Excellence.
Seven cooperative grants were awarded to improve and strengthen the initial core set of measures and develop new measures as needed under the CHIPRA PQMP. Each of these programs will comprise multiple entities to investigate and find tools to some of the most pressing issues in child health quality measurement:
AHRQ-CMS CHIPRA Quality Measurement, Evaluation, Testing, Review, and Implementation Consortium (Q-METRIC). Principal Investigator: Gary Freed, MD, MPH, professor of pediatrics and child health delivery; director of division of general pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The project will work with the Michigan Medicaid program, and it will include a representative from Family Voices to ensure involvement of families and patients. The project also will work with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) to ensure additional parent involvement.
AHRQ-CMS CHIPRA Mount Sinai Collaboration for Advancing Pediatric Quality Measures (CAPQuaM). Principal Investigator: Lawrence C. Kleinman, MD, MPH, associate professor of health evidence & policy and pediatrics, vice chair for research and education, department of health evidence & policy, Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. The project will work with New York's Medicaid program and the New York chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), and it will have representatives from the Partnership for Patient Safety, Consumers Advancing Patient Safety, the Institute for Patient and Family Centered Care and the Consumers Union to ensure involvement of families and patients.
AHRQ-CMS CHIPRA Center of Excellence on Quality of Care Measures for Children with Complex Needs (COE4CCN). Principal Investigator: Rita Mangione-Smith, MD, MPH, associate professor, department of pediatrics, University of Washington in Seattle. The project will work with the Washington and Minnesota Medicaid programs and healthcare providers from the Washington and Minnesota state chapters of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and it will have representatives from Family Voices of Minnesota to ensure involvement of families and patients.
AHRQ-CMS CHIPRA Pediatric Measurement Center of Excellence (PMCoE). Principal Investigator: Ramesh Sachdeva, MS, PhD, JD, professor of pediatrics, executive vice president and COO of National Outcomes Center at Children's Hospital and Health System in Milwaukee. The project will work with the Arkansas Medicaid program and with the AMA-PCPI Consumer-Purchaser Advisory Panel, the AAP collaboration with Family Voices and the National Partnership for Women and Families to ensure involvement of families and patients.
AHRQ-CMS CHIPRA National Collaborative for Innovation in Quality Measurement (NCINQ). Principal Investigator: Sarah Hudson Scholle, DrPH, vice president of the National Committee for Quality Assurance. The project will work with clinical settings serving disadvantaged children as well as eight State Medicaid/CHIP programs (New York, Illinois, Florida, Minnesota, Oregon, Alaska, West Virginia and Colorado) and CHIPRA quality demonstration grantees in Illinois and Florida.
AHRQ-CMS CHIPRA Children's Hospital Boston Center of Excellence for Quality Measurement. Principal Investigator: Mark A. Schuster, MD, PhD, professor of pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.
AHRQ-CMS CHIPRA Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Center of Excellence. Principal Investigator: Jeffrey H. Silber, MD, PhD, director of Center for Outcomes Research at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The project will work with the Pennsylvania Medicaid program and include representatives from Public Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY) and the Center for Healthcare Strategies (CHCS) to ensure involvement of families and patients.
Seven cooperative grants were awarded to improve and strengthen the initial core set of measures and develop new measures as needed under the CHIPRA PQMP. Each of these programs will comprise multiple entities to investigate and find tools to some of the most pressing issues in child health quality measurement:
AHRQ-CMS CHIPRA Quality Measurement, Evaluation, Testing, Review, and Implementation Consortium (Q-METRIC). Principal Investigator: Gary Freed, MD, MPH, professor of pediatrics and child health delivery; director of division of general pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The project will work with the Michigan Medicaid program, and it will include a representative from Family Voices to ensure involvement of families and patients. The project also will work with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) to ensure additional parent involvement.
AHRQ-CMS CHIPRA Mount Sinai Collaboration for Advancing Pediatric Quality Measures (CAPQuaM). Principal Investigator: Lawrence C. Kleinman, MD, MPH, associate professor of health evidence & policy and pediatrics, vice chair for research and education, department of health evidence & policy, Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. The project will work with New York's Medicaid program and the New York chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), and it will have representatives from the Partnership for Patient Safety, Consumers Advancing Patient Safety, the Institute for Patient and Family Centered Care and the Consumers Union to ensure involvement of families and patients.
AHRQ-CMS CHIPRA Center of Excellence on Quality of Care Measures for Children with Complex Needs (COE4CCN). Principal Investigator: Rita Mangione-Smith, MD, MPH, associate professor, department of pediatrics, University of Washington in Seattle. The project will work with the Washington and Minnesota Medicaid programs and healthcare providers from the Washington and Minnesota state chapters of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and it will have representatives from Family Voices of Minnesota to ensure involvement of families and patients.
AHRQ-CMS CHIPRA Pediatric Measurement Center of Excellence (PMCoE). Principal Investigator: Ramesh Sachdeva, MS, PhD, JD, professor of pediatrics, executive vice president and COO of National Outcomes Center at Children's Hospital and Health System in Milwaukee. The project will work with the Arkansas Medicaid program and with the AMA-PCPI Consumer-Purchaser Advisory Panel, the AAP collaboration with Family Voices and the National Partnership for Women and Families to ensure involvement of families and patients.
AHRQ-CMS CHIPRA National Collaborative for Innovation in Quality Measurement (NCINQ). Principal Investigator: Sarah Hudson Scholle, DrPH, vice president of the National Committee for Quality Assurance. The project will work with clinical settings serving disadvantaged children as well as eight State Medicaid/CHIP programs (New York, Illinois, Florida, Minnesota, Oregon, Alaska, West Virginia and Colorado) and CHIPRA quality demonstration grantees in Illinois and Florida.
AHRQ-CMS CHIPRA Children's Hospital Boston Center of Excellence for Quality Measurement. Principal Investigator: Mark A. Schuster, MD, PhD, professor of pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.
AHRQ-CMS CHIPRA Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Center of Excellence. Principal Investigator: Jeffrey H. Silber, MD, PhD, director of Center for Outcomes Research at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The project will work with the Pennsylvania Medicaid program and include representatives from Public Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY) and the Center for Healthcare Strategies (CHCS) to ensure involvement of families and patients.