Measure Status: Active
Evidence Level: Emerging. Aligns with MCHbest strategy "Dedicated Care Coordinators". Find other NPM 11 in MCHbest.
Measurement Quadrant: Quadrant 2: Measuring quality of effort (% of reach; satisfaction)
Service Type: Enabling services level of pyramid
Essential Public Health Services: 7. Assure effective and equitable health systems
Service Recipient: Activities directed to families/children/youth
Goal: Assess care coordination to evaluate the assistance families receive with medical home services and inform efforts to support provision of medical home services for CYSHCN.
Numerator: Number of CYSHCN families surveyed who indicated they received professional care coordination for their child
Denominator: Total number of CYSHCN families surveyed
Significance: The 2002 AAP Policy Statement on Medical Home defined care within a medical home as accessible, family-centered, continuous, comprehensive, coordinated, compassionate and culturally effective. The Joint Principles of the Patient Centered Medical Home defined these characteristics through seven principles including care coordination across all elements of the complex health care system and community.
The National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) 2016/18 identified that 43.4% of Texas CYSHCN met all criteria for the medical home outcome, and less than one third received any help with arranging or coordinating care. Findings from the Title V Five Year Needs Assessment support that coordination of care is a challenge. The 2019 CYSHCN Outreach Survey, gathered as part of the Title V 2020 Needs Assessment, showed 61.8% of respondents reported that they coordinate their child’s care themselves. Survey data also showed that 27.8% of respondents received professional help from someone at the child’s doctor’s office, a case manager or social worker, or someone at the child’s school with care coordination services. Successful provider education, outreach, and promotion of medical home best practices will lead to increased implementation skills related to providing quality care coordination for CYSHCN and families.
Data Sources and Data Issues: Data Source: CYSHCN Outreach Survey
Responses to the CYSHCN Outreach Survey are collected on a biennial basis. The survey is mailed out and dispersed electronically to families served by the HHSC CSHCN health care benefits program and MCHS contractors in both English and Spanish formats. The survey will be promoted through email communication, newsletters, and webpages. According to results of the 2019 CYSHCN Outreach Survey as part of the 2020 Title V Five Year Needs Assessment, 203 of 730 survey respondents (27.8%) indicated they received professional help from someone at the child’s doctor’s office, a case manager or social worker, or someone at the child’s school with care coordination services.
Data Issues: Challenges associated with surveying a convenience sample include the potential to underrepresent subsets of the CYSHCN population in Texas according to geographical location or language spoken. The CYSHCN Outreach Survey seeks to combat these challenges by providing both online and paper access to the survey in English and Spanish. Geographical data is also gathered in order to examine relevant needs assessment activities.
Year: 2021
Unit Type: Percentage, Unit Number: 100