From: The Commonwealth Fund [mailto:commonwealthfund@cmwf.org]
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 9:43 AM
To: Snyder, Scott (HRSA)
Subject: New Manual on Improving Child Developmental Services in Primary Care Practices
Dear Colleague:
By improving their office systems, pediatric practices can offer better developmental care to the children and families they serve. A new manual, A Practical Guide for Healthy Development, has been developed by the Healthy Development Learning Collaborative, a 12-month quality improvement initiative, to give offices step-by-step guidance on how to revise their office systems. The initiative was designed to help primary care practices in Vermont and North Carolina engage families in a partnership to promote positive developmental outcomes for the families' children.
The Guide offers a number of newly tested and established resources--including checklists, surveys, bibliographies, and helpful links--that are organized into the following modules:
Module 1: Assessing Your Practice's Office Systems
Module 2: Developmental Screening and Surveillance
Module 3: Family Psychosocial Screening and Surveillance
Module 4: Eliciting Parents' Concerns
Module 5: Anticipatory Guidance
Module 6: Linking with Your CommunityAdopting the strategies and tools described in the manual can help practices of all kinds offer improved developmental services to their patients and their families.
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