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Annotation: This action plan focuses on the Louisiana Oral Health Coalition’s goals related to improving the oral health of all Louisianans. It provides direction for achieving priorities set forth by stakeholders representing individual oral health champions and multiple organizations across the state. The plan describes three oral-health-promotion interventions across the state: Well Ahead Louisiana (a chronic-disease-prevention and health-care-access initiative of the Louisiana Department of Health), school dental sealant programs, and community water fluoridation. Information about the Louisiana Oral Health Coalition is provided.

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Keywords: Access to health care, Dental sealants, Fluoride, Health promotion, Louisiana, Oral health, Prevention, School health, State planning

Annotation: This online resource from the American Academy of Pediatrics for state Title V programs and their partners describes strategies to improve systems of services for children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) and their families. It presents vignettes from Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Louisiana, Rhode Island, Utah, and Wyoming that highlight peer-to-peer learning and cross-sector partnerships. Featured activities include engaging families and young adults with lived experience, developing electronic referral systems, and integrating national standards for systems of care into needs assessment processes. The resource also discusses provider toolkits for developmental screening, Medicaid payment incentives for health care transition services, and the use of telehealth for care coordination in rural and frontier areas.

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Keywords: Arizona, Child health, Children with special health care needs, Colorado, Developmental screening, Intersectoral collaboration, Iowa, Louisiana, Partnerships, Program coordination, Rhode Island, State initiatives, Title V programs, Utah Wyoming, Youth, Youth in transition programs

Annotation: This guidebook from the state of Louisiana presents the developmental milestones that children can be expected to reach from infacy to the age of five years. It includes links to resources intended for use by educators and providers, families, and community entities. One page is devoted to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and Child Find, guarantees that children will be assessed at school and have access to appropriate education.

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Keywords: Child development, Developmental milestones, Developmental screening, Guidelines, Louisiana

Annotation: The toolkit provides guidelines, action steps, and resources to help health providers integrate care coordination elements into their practice. Using a quality improvement framework, it is divided into actionable steps and arranged for ease of use at any (or various) stages of implementation. The toolkit is intended for use by pediatric medical providers and staff (physicians, nurses, social workers, clinic managers, support staff, etc.) who want to maximize their capacity to make care coordination services as efficient and effective as possible in their clinic. This includes improving existing services, or integrating new services, into the regular clinic practice.

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Keywords: Adolescents with special health care needs, Children with special health care needs, Louisiana , Quality improvement, Service coordination, Service integration, State initiatives

Annotation: This report outlines AMCHP's framework for collaboration among Title V, Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV), and Early Childhood Systems (ECS) programs, which was developed with HRSA MCHB and updated in 2021-2023. The resource includes analysis of facilitators and barriers to collaboration, a refined framework for program alignment, case studies from Guam, Indiana, Louisiana, and Mississippi, and tools for implementing collaborative strategies. It's designed for program administrators and public health professionals, focusing on systems-building approaches to optimize statewide early childhood systems through improved coordination between Title V MCH Services Block Grant, MIECHV Program, and ECCS Program initiatives.

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Keywords: MCH programs, Title V programs, Block grants, Children's health, Home visiting programs, Early intervention, Guam, Louisiana, Mississippi, Indiana

Annotation: This fact sheet for health professionals provides information about how to prevent tooth decay by applying fluoride to children’s teeth. The fact sheet provides information about the oral health status of students in third grade in Louisiana, what fluoride varnish is and how it is applied, reimbursement from Medicaid for fluoride application, the cost of fluoride application, and how to become certified to apply fluoride varnish through the Smiles for Life program.

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Keywords: Fluoride, Louisiana, Oral health, Prevention, Reimbursement, State materials

Annotation: This report describes the extent to which children enrolled in Medicaid in four states (California, Indiana, Louisiana, and Maryland) received pediatric oral health services in 2011 and 2012. The report also describes barriers and strategies to increase access in these states. Contents include background, methodology, findings, recommendations, and conclusions. Topics include the percentage of children who did not receive required oral health services and percentage of those who did not receive all required oral health services, policies that may limit children's ability to receive required services, shortages of dentists who participate in Medicaid, and challenges in educating families about the importance of oral health care.

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Keywords: Access to health care, Barriers, California, Children, EPSDT, Health care utilization, Health services delivery, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Medicaid, Oral health, Oral health care, Parent education, Policy development, State programs, Utilization review, Work force

Annotation: This document for primary care health professionals describes recommendations and the rationale for applying fluoride varnish to the teeth of infants and young children ages 6 months through 5 years. The document also provides information about training and certification prerequisites and coding for fluoride-varnish application reimbursement in Louisiana.

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Keywords: Clinical coding, Certification, Fluorides, Infants, Louisiana, Oral health, Primary care, Reimbursement, State programs, Training, Young children

Annotation: This document describes family engagement as a critical part of Title V maternal and child health (MCH) and children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) programs and highlights ways that states are engaging families. Contents include case study examples in Louisiana, Michigan, and Washington. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Case studies, Cultural diversity, Families, Leadership, Louisiana, Michigan, Participation, Public private partnerships, Role, State programs, Title V programs, Washington

Annotation: This guide contains examples from states' health departments and nonprofits on the active use of data. Examples were selected to represent ways to collect, communicate, and use data to achieve desired outcomes and influence policy. The four main sections discuss: data collection, data analysis, data communication, and data-informed policy. The guide also contains abstracts of example programs from all around the country, with links to the full reports covering topics such as infant mortality, PRAMS (Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) and families with children with special healthcare needs.

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Keywords: Title V programs, State CSHCN programs, Surveys, Evaluation, Assessment, Data collection, Data analysis, Epidemiology, Texas, Wisconsin, Alaska, Mississippi, Massachusetts, Louisiana, Nebraska, Delaware, Florida

Annotation: These resources are part of a statewide initiative aimed at improving the health and wellness of Louisiana residents. Topics include preventing and controlling oral disease, partnering with community and professional organizations to improve oral health, providing oral health education, promoting community water fluoridation, promoting school-based and school-linked dental sealant programs, and maintaining an oral-health-surveillance system to monitor the burden of oral disease. Contents include data on dental visits by gender, age, race, income, and education; tools for finding oral health care; and oral-health-education resources for adults and older adults, school nurses and teachers, and oral health professionals and non-oral-health professionals.

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Keywords: Community based services, Dental sealants, Disease management, Fluorides, Health care utilization, Health education, Health objectives, Health promotion, Health services delivery, Life course, Louisiana, Oral health, Oral health care, Population surveillance, Prevention programs, Preventive health services, Public private partnerships, Resources for professionals, Schools, State initiatives, Statistical data, Water

Annotation: This document provides guidance to Medicaid-contracted dental benefit plan managers on submitting encounters (records of procedures and services provided to Medicaid recipients enrolled in the plan) to the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. Topics include responsibilities, transaction instructions, denial edit codes and descriptions, electronic data interchange certification and testing, data management of file and encounter submissions, continuous quality improvement, data assessment, adjustment process, and Medicaid administrative retroactive enrollment correction process.

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Keywords: Contract services, Dental insurance, Fiscal management, Louisiana, Low income groups, Medicaid, Oral health, Oral health care, Provider networks, Quality assurance, Service delivery systems, State programs

Annotation: This fact sheet provides information about preterm birth (PTB) rates and racial disparities in PTB in the United States, the use of 17 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone caproate (17P) to prevent PTB, and the role of state and territorial health agencies in promoting access to 17P. Contents include state examples of 17P interventions in Louisiana, North Carolina, and Ohio. The fact sheet also discusses costs, quality, and other challenges related to the availability of and access to 17P.

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Keywords: Access to health care, Barriers, Louisiana, North Carolina, Ohio, Pharmaceutical fees, Pregnant women, Preterm birth, Preventive medicine, State agencies

Annotation: This document profiles the various ways that U.S. states and communities are structuring, implementing, and evaluating intensive care coordination (ICC) using the wraparound approach for children and youth with significant mental health conditions. The document defines wraparound as a structured approach to service planning and care coordination for individuals with complex needs that is built on a system of care and adheres to specified procedures. Contents include the evidence base for wraparound and information on established, evolving, and emerging ICC/wraparound programs.

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Keywords: Children, Colorado, Community programs, Coordination planning, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mental health, Michigan, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Patient care, Pennsylvania, Program coordination, Rhode Island, Service coordination, State programs, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Youth

Annotation: This manual provides information on implementing a dental sealant program in communities and schools in Louisiana. Topics include program history, school-based vs. school-linked programs, planning and promoting a program, retention checks and follow-up, evaluation, and budget. Forms for clinic operation, data collection, and evaluation are included in the appendices.

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Keywords: Dental sealants, Louisiana, Oral health, Prevention programs, School age children, School health programs, State programs

Annotation: This document presents principles and values of Louisiana school-based health centers; lists standards for these centers; and provides guidelines in the areas of administration, medical and clinical services, and behavioral and mental health care. A table indicates essential and preferred services for elementary, middle, and high schools. An appendix lists topics for which Louisiana school-based health centers should have written RN clinical guidelines and a second appendix lists required contents of emergency kits to be kept at all these centers.

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Keywords: Guidelines, Louisiana, School based clinics, Standards

Annotation: This website provides information about the 2012 Region IV & Region VI Infant Mortality Summit, held on January 12 and 13 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The summit was the launching point for a collaborative and multi-state initiative that aims to improve infant health outcomes and reduce infant mortality and prematurity across the nation, particularly among disparate populations. The website provides links to the summit agenda and materials from sessions, describes the summit goals and objectives, and provides links to related infant and child health resources.

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Keywords: Child health, Collaboration, Conference proceedings, Infant health, Infant mortality, Initiatives, Louisiana, Low income groups, Prevention, Resource materials, State programs

Annotation: This report presents case studies from Texas and Louisiana that illustrate innovative approaches that states are employing to help ensure that more children get a healthy start in life. The report provides background information on the complications often resulting from premature birth and discusses the essential features of Texas's Healthy Babies Initiative and Louisiana's Birth Outcomes Initiative. Resources for more information about the programs are provided.

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Keywords: Child health, Infant health, Initiatives, Louisiana, Premature infants, Prematurity, Prenatal care, Pregnant women, Preterm birth, Prevention, State programs, Texas

Annotation: This document provides guidance on collaborating and partnering to implement school-based dental sealant programs in federally qualified health centers in Louisiana. Topics include applying for a license to operate portable and mobile dental equipment, infection control recommendations and standards, and information required in the consent form for student participation in the program.

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Keywords: Collaboration, Community health centers, Dental sealants, Interagency cooperation, Louisiana, Mobile health units, Oral health, Prevention programs, Public private partnerships, School age children, School based clinics, Standards, State programs

Annotation: This document is designed to help federally-qualified health centers in Louisiana implement school-based dental sealant programs. Topics include applying for a license to operate portable and mobile dental equipment, infection control recommendations and standards, and information required in the consent form for student participation in the program. Information about Medicaid reimbursement is also provided.

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Keywords: Community health centers, Dental sealants, Infection control, Licensing, Louisiana, Mobile health units, Oral health, Oral health care, Parent consent, Preventive health services, Reimbursement, Resources for professionals, School age children, School based clinics, Screening, Standards, State programs