How Retailers Responded to Taxes on Sweetened Beverages: A Tale of Two Cities

This issue brief discusses how beverage retailers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Oakland, California, implemented excise taxes on the distribution of sweetened beverages and how they responded to the taxes by changing product prices, store inventory, and marketing strategies.

Developing Math Skills in Early Childhood

This brief synthesizes the research on early childhood math to describe why early math is important and how families can be encouraged to support their children’s early math development during well-child primary care visits.

Implementing Electronic Health Record Default Settings to Reduce Opioid Overprescribing: A Pilot Study

The authors implemented a 15-pill electronic health record default for new Schedule II opioids and assessed opioid quantity before and after implementation using electronic health record data on 6,390 opioid prescriptions from 448 prescribers.

Promoting Children’s Physical Activity in Low-Income Communities in Colorado: What Are the Barriers and Opportunities?

In this formative study of Colorado families, participants confirmed barriers to physical activity that previous research on low-income communities has documented, and these varied by geographic location.

Integrating Mathematical Thinking Into Family Engagement Programs

The brief describes how family engagement programs integrated early math learning into their typical activities and lays out practical tips that emerged from their experience. It can guide practitioners and other stakeholders who are interested in integrating early math into their own programs.

What Factors Influence States’ Capacity to Report Children’s Health Care Quality Measures? A Multiple-Case Study

The objective of this study was to describe factors that influence the ability of state Medicaid agencies to report the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) core set of children’s health care quality measures (Child Core Set).

Family Engagement Impact Project (FEIP): Phase II Evaluation Report

This report describes grantees’ experiences and short-term outcomes during the implementation phase of the Family Engagement Impact Project (FEIP). It also presents recommendations for others interested in leveraging public-private partnerships in support of family engagement.

Promoting Physical Activity among Low-Income Children in Colorado: Family Perspectives on Barriers and Opportunities

In this study of low-income families throughout Colorado, we learned that the majority of children are participating in some organized physical activities, and that most parents understand and value the benefits of regular physical activity for their children’s health and well-being. Parents identified...

Physician Perspectives on Medical Home Recognition for Practice Transformation for Children

Patient-centered medical home recognition can be valuable to practices as public acknowledgement to payers and patients that certain processes are in place, and can also catalyze new and continued transformation.

Creating Patient-Centered Team-Based Primary Care

This white paper offers a conceptual framework as well as strategies that providers can use to ensure that team-based care in primary care settings is patient-centered. These strategies are intended to support the development of good relationships between teams and patients, equally strong collaboration...

Health Care Coverage and Access for Children in Low-Income Families: Stakeholder Perspectives from California, Colorado, and Texas

Focusing on the diverse states of California, Colorado, and Texas, this issue brief conveys recent policy developments, remaining unmet needs, and emerging issues in children’s health care coverage and delivery, from the perspective of knowledgeable stakeholders.

Health Care Coverage and Access for Children in Low-Income Families: Stakeholder Perspectives from California

This issue brief was prepared as part of a small-scale qualitative study funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to convey recent positive developments, remaining unmet needs, and emerging issues in children’s health care coverage and delivery, from the perspective of knowledgeable stakeholders.

Spotlight on Utah

This brief highlights the major strategies, lessons learned, and outcomes from Utah’s experience during the first 5 years of the quality demonstration funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) through the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA).

Spotlight on South Carolina

This brief highlights the major strategies, lessons learned, and outcomes from South Carolina’s experience during the first 5 years of the quality demonstration funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) through the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA).

Spotlight on North Carolina

This brief highlights the major strategies, lessons learned, and outcomes from North Carolina's experience in the first 5 years of the quality demonstration funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) through the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA).

Spotlight on Illinois

This brief highlights the major strategies, lessons learned, and outcomes from Illinois's experience in the first 5 years of the quality demonstration funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) through the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA).

Spotlight on Idaho

This brief highlights the major strategies, lessons learned, and outcomes from Idaho's experience during the first 5 years of the quality demonstration funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) through the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA).

Spotlight on Florida

This brief highlights the major strategies, lessons learned, and outcomes from Florida’s experience during the first 5 years of the quality demonstration funded by the Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services (CMS) through the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA).

How are CHIPRA Quality Demonstration States Improving Perinatal Care?

In this Highlight, we discuss how Florida and Illinois are leveraging Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA) quality demonstration funds to improve the quality of perinatal care, defined as health care provided during pregnancy up until one week after birth.

How are CHIPRA Quality Demonstration States Designing and Implementing Caregiver Peer Support Programs?

This brief focuses on efforts in four states—Georgia, Idaho, Maryland, and Utah—to expand access to peer support for caregivers of children with special health care needs.

How are CHIPRA Quality Demonstration States Working Together to Improve the Quality of Health Care for Children?

This evaluation highlight illustrates how six grantees use multistate partnerships to improve the quality of children's health care. It describes the strategies that states use to create and maintain cross-state relationships, as well as the benefits and challenges of partnering.

Expanding the Toolbox: Methods to Study and Refine Patient-Centered Medical Home Models (Issue Brief)

The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is a promising primary care approach that emphasizes patient-centered, comprehensive, coordinated, accessible care, with a systematic focus on quality and safety.

The Logic Model: The Foundation to Implement, Study, and Refine Patient-Centered Medical Home Models (Issue Brief)

This brief focuses on using logic models to evaluate patient-centered medical home (PCMH) models.

Using Implementation Research to Guide Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination of Patient-Centered Medical Home Models

This brief focuses on using implementation research methods in studies of patient-centered medical home (PCMH) models.

Case Studies of Leading Primary Care Practice Facilitation Programs

Practice facilitation (PF) or coaching is one way to support medical practices in their ongoing efforts to redesign and transform primary care.

Lessons Learned from Leading Models of Practice Facilitation

Practice facilitation (PF) is one way to support medical practices in their ongoing efforts toward primary care redesign and transformation.

Program Snapshot: The Safety Net Medical Home Initiative

Qualis Health and its partner, the MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation, plan, administer, coordinate, and monitor the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative (the Initiative).