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Newsletter Thirty-Two - November 2009


Becoming a Certified Medical Home

A Complete Toolkit to Enable Your Practice To
RECOGNIZE AND REFER MOTHERS WITH POST-PARTUM DEPRESSION


Annual CCHAP Satisfaction Survey
For Practices Affiliated with CCHAP
Please Complete This Survey to Help Us Better Serve Your Practice


Practice Manager’s Corner

The Pediatrician’s Role in Infant Oral Health

 


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Newsletter Thirty-One - October 2009

 

Resource Fair for Practice Managers was a BIG SUCCESS
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE 17 ORGANIZATIONS
THAT CAN HELP YOUR PRACTICE

The Pediatrician’s Role in Dental Care:
Dental Exam, Anticipatory Guidance and
Applying Flouride Varnish in Office Practice

Culturally-Based Family Dynamics
Practice Manager’s Corner
Colorado Health Care Affordability Act
A Summary From the Governor’s Office

Newsletter Thirty - September 2009

The Best Resources For Practices: Resource Fair for Practice Managers
Meet Representatives From 17 Different Organizations That Can Help Your Practice

Reminder: What to do when a child has commercial insurance and Medicaid
Medicaid Rate Cuts

What you should know about Ramadan
Practice Manager’s Corner
Medical Home Tool Kit is Now Available

Newsletter Twenty-Nine - June 2009

All the Ways CCHAP Can Help
Your Medicaid or CHP Patient, You and Your Practice

Healthcare for Middle Easterners
Colorado Medicaid Proposes A New Pilot Program To Reform Medicaid
It Will Be Released Any Day Now

Medical Home Tool Kit is Now Available
Provider Resource Helpline

Newsletter Twenty-Eight - April 2009

Healthcare for Immigrants and Refugees
Colorado Medicaid Proposes A New Pilot Program To Reform Medicaid
Provider Resource Hotline
Childhood Bullying: A Guide for Pediatric Practices
Announcing an Interactive Cross-Cultural Communications Website
Designed Especially for Healthcare Professionals

Newsletter Twenty-Seven - March 2009

To Assist You in Connecting Your Patient,
Who has a Chronic Illness or Special Needs, and their Family
With Approrpiate Srvices and Resources

Colorado Medicaid Helps Primary Care Practices
Improve Their "Medical Home-ness"

CCHAP Alert: New Medicaid Reform Strategy
Traditional Asian Health Beliefs and Healing Practices
What You Need to Know About CHP+
Eligibility, Enrollment and Claims Denials

Newsletter Twenty-Six - February 2009

Folk Illness and Traditional Remedies in Latino Communities
Practice Manager’s Corner Great news about Synagys
A Message from Dr. Ed Berman,
Colorado Access Senior Medical Director for Children Services

Immunization Update, By Robert Brayden, MD
The KidSuccess Program at Jewish Family Service
Announcing an Interactive Cross-Cultural Communications Website
Designed Especially for Healthcare Professionals

Newsletter Twenty-Five - January 2009

Cultural Values of Asian Patients & Families
Announcing an Interactive Cross-Cultural Communications Website
Designed Especially for Healthcare Professionals

How Well Is Your Practice Doing
As A Medical Home?

Practice Manager’s Corner
Meet CCHAP’s New Administrator

Practices can bill commercial health plans for phone calls handled by nurses
The Colorado Association for Infant Mental Health Biennial Conference

Newsletter Twenty-Four - December 2008

80 Pediatric Practices Along The Front Range Devote a Portion  Of Their Practice To Medicaid Children
Announcing an Interactive Cross-Cultural Communications Website Designed Especially for Healthcare Professionals
Colorado’s Laws Regarding Medical Homes for Children and Colorado’s Medical Home Standards
How Well Is Your Practice Doing As A Medical Home?
Practice Manager’s Corner
Continuous Quality Improvement and Patient Safety at the National and Local Levels

Newsletter Twenty-Three - November 2008

Culturally-Based Beliefs About What Causes Illness
A Medical Home For All Children
A Tool For Evaluating Your Practice

Great News About Reimbursement on CHP+ Children
From Colorado Access

Practice Manager’s Corner

Language as a Communication Barrier in Medical Care for Hispanic Patients
Plus A Spanish Course For Providers
Phase II – Automated Reminder Recall

Newsletter Twenty-Two - October 2008

 Cultural Values of Latino Patients and Families
Early Findings: Immunization Reminder-Recall Study
for Medicaid Children in CCHAP-affiliated Practices

Practice Manager’s Corner
Definition of a Medical Home
 

Newsletter Twenty-One - September 2008

8 Tips for Communicating with Limited English Proficiency Patients and Families
Child Psychiatrist Available to Provide Teaching for You in Your Office
Refer A Child Who Has Developmental Delays, Social / Emotional Problems or Complicated Medical Problems
Practice Manager’s Corner
The Cross-cultural Curriculum for the Department of Pediatrics

Newsletter Twenty - July 2008

Interacting with Difficult Patients (Parents): A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Complete List of New Medicaid Rates Dramatic Increases Starting in July
Practice Manager’s Corner
Resource Guide: Contact Information on Resources for Families
Special Article on Developmental Screening, By Bill Campbell, MD

Newsletter Nineteen - June 2008

Basics of Cross-Cultural Communication
New Medicaid Rates – Dramatic Increases Starting in July
Jewish Family Services Mental Health Services and Help with School-Related Issues For Families of All Cultures
Practice Manager’s Corner
For Those Practices Participating in the Immunization Reminder Project

Newsletter Eighteen - May 2008

What Providers And Staff Need To Know About Culture (Dimensions of Culture)
What is Continuous Quality Improvement? What Can CCHAP Do To Help?
Presumptive Eligibility (PE), An Update
Financial Help for Families Whose Commercial Health Insurance Does Not Cover Medical Needs
Principles of the Patient Centered Medical Home

Newsletter Seventeen - April 2008

American Culture (and Medical Culture)
Advice From Parents of Medicaid, CHP+ and Minority Children
EPSDT (Medicaid) Preventive Care Requirements VS From AAP Recommendations
How To Bill For Developmental Screening (A Clarification)
Is Your Medicaid Patient Eligible for Home Health Care? ULTC 100.2.
Immunization Reminder Study
A Website To Help You Learn Medical Spanish
Child Psychiatry Telephone Consultation on Medicaid Children
Provider Resource Hotline for Children with Chronic Illness
Integrating Developmental Screening In a Pediatric Practice
Medical Spanish Training For Your Office Staff

Newsletter Sixteen - March 2008

Effective Use of Cultural Generalizations Or Is It Stereotyping?
Immigration and Health Care Ethics Conference
Synagis and Medicaid Children
 Immunization Registry- Data Entry and Reminder-Recall
Child Psychiatry Telephone Consultation on Medicaid Children
Provider Resource Hotline for Children with Chronic Illness
Integrating Developmental Screening In a Pediatric Practice
Medical Spanish Training For Your Office Staff

Newsletter Fifteen - February 2008

Child Psychiatry Telephone Consultation on Medical Children
Intercultural Communications
Provider Resource Hotline for Children with Chronic Illness
Great News Regarding Passive Enrollment
Getting Children Fully Immunized, What Reminder System Works Best?
Integrating Developmental Screening In a Pediatric Practice
Medical Spanish Training For Your Office Staff

Newsletter Fourteen - January 2008

Provider Resource Hotline
Improving Quality and Improving Efficiency
Culturally Responsive and Effective Care Cross-cultural Communication
Assistance in Getting Medicaid Children in for Immunizations
Parent Advisory Group (PAG)
Integrating Developmental Screening In a Pediatric Practice
Medical Spanish Training For Your Office Staff

Newsletter Thirteen - November 2007

Hidden Health Disparity for Children, Parental Health Literacy
Primary Care Learning Center
Parent Advisory Group
Integrating Developmental Screening In A Pediatric Practice
Counseling For Uninsured Children And Families

Newsletter Twelve- October 2007

Screening For Postpartum Depression
Pediatrics and the Growing Latino Community in Colorado
Integrating Developmental Screening Into a Pediatric Practice
New CCHAP Program Manager
Spanish Interpretation Training for Pediatric Practices

Newsletter Eleven- September 2007

Improving Health Outcomes
Tips For Providers Using Bilingual Staff as Interpreters
Retaining Bilingual Staff
Performance Objectives for Bilingual Staff (Interpreters)
Language needs of your patients (Practice Self Assessment)
CCHAP Administrative Team Is Moving
Medical Spanish Training

Newsletter Ten - August 2007

Case Presentation, Cross-Cultural Health Care Case
How I Learned To Treat My Bias
Integrating Developmental Screening In A Pediatric Practice
Immunization Handouts In Spanish
Care Coordination For Children with Special Health Care Needs
Practice Liaison Teleconference
Medical Spanish For Office Staff

Newsletter Nine - July 2007

Increased Reimbursement in CCHAP-affiliated Practices For Medicaid Patients
The Angry Parent
Standardized Developmental Screening in Your Practice
Care Coordination For Children with Special Health Care Needs
How Medical Homes Reduce Health Disparities
Spanish Interpretation Training for Pediatric Practices

Newsletter Eight - June 2007

Physician Guidelines and Tool Kit for Cross-cultural Health Care
Cross-cultural Health Care Question of the Month
Care Coordination For Children with Special Health Care Needs
Handouts to Promote the Medical Home Concept (Including Spanish)
Improving Pediatric Asthma Care Training
How to Get Medicaid and CHP+ Children in for Immunizations
Spanish Interpretation Training for Pediatric Practices

Newsletter Seven - May 2007

8 Steps to enhance Cross-Cultural Skills
Fair Reimbursement for Medicaid Special Needs Children
Multilingual / Multicultural Education Materials
Diagnosis and Treatment of Post Partum Depression
Developmental Screening Training Workshop
Help Asthmatic Patient’s Parent Quit Smoking
Cross-Cultural Health Care Workshop
Spanish Interpretation Training
Next Practice Liaison Teleconference

Newsletter Six - April 2007

Breastfeeding and Early Combination Feeding (‘los dos’) in Latinas
Incorporating an Interpreter into Your Office
What is new in CCHAP?
Parental smoking and childhood asthma
Cross-Cultural Health Care Workshop
Integrating Developmental Screening in Primary Care Practice
Medical Spanish Training For Office Staff  

Newsletter Five - March 2007

Compliance with Referrals for Mental Health or Developmental Evaluation
Medicaid Reimbursement for Treating Behavioral Problems in your Practice
The Relationship between Health Outcomes and State Taxes
Medicaid Reimbursement for Developmental Screening
Case Management Program
Introducing Our New Resource Coordinator
New Form To Help Move CHP+ Patients To Colorado Access
Integrating Developmental Screening in Primary Care Practice
Cross-Cultural Health Care Workshop
Announcement

Newsletter Four - February 2007

Developmental Screening For Low Income & Minority Children
Integrating Developmental Screening in Primary Care Practice
New Asthma Case Management Program
Oral Health and Medicaid
CCHAP Orientation Manual Online
CCHAP Expansion Metro-wide
Announcements

Newsletter Three - January 2007

Reimbursement for Medicaid Versus Commercial Health Insurance
Work Effectively With Interpreters
Medicaid Families That Miss Appointments
Resources for Children With Special Needs
Announcements

Newsletter Two - December 2006

Good Reimbursement For Medicaid Well Child Care (EPSDT)
Improve Health Outcomes For Spanish Speaking Families 
Cross-Cultural Health Care, Points To Ponder
Announcements

Newsletter One - November 2006

Newsletter Introduction
Individual Healthcare Plan
Cross-Cultural Healthcare
Why Everyone Needs to Learn More
Health Disparities In Children
Patient Transportation
Announcements

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