Summary of Pediatric Quality Measures For Children Enrolled in MaineCare FFY 2009-FFY 2013

In Maine, a key objective of the IHOC CHIPRA demonstration grant is to collect and report on the Initial Core Set of Children’s Health Care Quality Measures (referred to as the “CHIPRA Core Measures”), a set of 24 standardized, evidence-based measures identified by CMS for use by State Medicaid and CHIP programs. This report presents the results of the 18 CHIPRA Core Measures that were collected using MaineCare claims, Vital Statistics or survey data and reported to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for FFY 2013. Also included in this report are an additional three measures from the IHOC project’s Master List of Pediatric Measures. In addition to presenting results in graphs and narrative, this report provides measure definitions and background information about each measure topic

Time to Ask Program at Greater Portland Health [Infographic]

The goals of the Time to Ask education and quality improvement program of the Lunder Dineen include increasing the capacity of interprofessional care teams in discussing alcohol use with the patients through the screening, brief intervention, and referral (SBIRT) process, and expanding providers\u27 use of screening and monitoring unhealthy alcohol use of their patients. This evaluation infographic visualizes the impact of Greater Portland Health\u27s use of this program. For more information about Time to Ask, visit https://lunderdineen.org/program/alcohol-use-time-to-ask/ For more information about the evaluation, please contact M. Lindsey Smith, PhD, [email protected]

Fact Sheet #1: How Family-Centered is MaineCare?

Parent reports on family experiences of care can provide health plans, systems and providers with crucial information on their performance in the domain of family-centeredness. The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) conducts an annual survey to gather this kind of information for MaineCare, the state of Maine’s Medicaid and Child Health Insurance (CHIP) program

Fact Sheet #2: How Do MaineCare Providers Perform on Childhood Screening and Prevention?

The annual Survey of Children Served by MaineCare, which collects a wealth of data on the experiences of MaineCare families, examines the extent to which MaineCare providers follow Bright Futures guidelines during well-child visits. This fact sheet presents findings on Bright Futures adherence from the 2013 survey

Downeast Maine MAT Expansion Project: Year 1 Data Summary

This report summarizes the Year 1 activities of the Healthy Acadia Downeast Maine MAT Expansion Project. Through a collaborative effort of Healthy Acadia, its providers, the Downeast Substance Treatment Network and Downeast Substance Use Response Coalition, the project utilized multiple evidence-based strategies to combat opioid use disorder (OUD) in Downeast Maine. Key findings focused on: capacity building, stakeholder engagement, organizational and peer support, payment and reimbursement issues, the creation of low-barrier access to MAT, barriers, including stigma, to MAT patient-centered approaches auxiliary recovery supports For more information, please contact M. LIndsey Smith, PhD at [email protected]