CoC Quality Improvement Newsletter

Community Health Plan Of Washington

Grant Funds Available

Grant money is now available from CHPW to help fund member community health center pilot projects targeted at improving preventive health service delivery rates.

Our program goals are to:

¨ Help support appointment outreach efforts (direct or indirect)

¨ Develop a best practice toolkit to provide tested interventions to other health centers

An example of a direct activity might be to send birthday card reminders to women, encouraging preventive health services. An indirect activity might be to hire a temporary employee to enter historical data into the CHILD Profile immunization registry for tracking purposes & later use by CHILD Profile in generating reminder notices to families. Other intervention examples might be health fairs, incentive gifts, or drawings.

We invite your participation in this program & encourage creativity, as we would like to support a variety of interventions for various issues.

While this program’s stated focus is upon preventive health, we are also interested in supporting outreach to chronically ill populations.

So, please put on your thinking caps, & let us know what service area you would like to target for improvement & what intervention you would like us to consider funding.

The program application process involves two steps:

¨ Completion of a baseline survey of current preventive health outreach practices.

¨ Completion of an application form detailing your project proposal, including measurement plans for before & after monitoring to gage the effectiveness of your intervention.

CHPW Medical Management will then review your proposal, seek any additional needed information from you, & provide a prompt response.

In addition to funding support for approved interventions, the CHPW QI Team will be available to support your efforts through general collaboration & assistance in defining meaningful measurements.

After the project pilot period ends (at the end of 2001), we will share your successes with the network through distribution of the best practice toolkit.