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No Road Map for Complex Pediatric Care: A Mother's Call for Coordinated Support

Danielle Stephens recalls her son’s journey—from birth complications to cerebral palsy and drug-resistant epilepsy—and the realization that families navigating medical complexity often receive no road map. Even with California’s significant disability-services investment, families face unmet care coordination, long calendars of appointments, and gaps after Early Start and school transitions. A chance encounter with another exhausted mother introduced networks like IHSS, Regional Center, Medicaid waivers, and Self-Determination; access to these can change outcomes, but require proactive enrollment and a named care coordinator. The piece argues hospitals and clinicians must provide coordinated care before discharge to prevent families from being left to navigate the system alone.

via USA Today|

#care-coordination #cerebral-palsy #disability-advocacy

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CMS Launches Multi-State Program to Boost Primary Care

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced the Making Care Primary (MCP) Model, a new primary care model that will be tested in eight states to improve access and quality of primary care, especially for safety net and smaller or independent primary care organizations. The model seeks to expand and enhance care management and care coordination, equip primary care clinicians with tools to form partnerships with health care specialists, and leverage community-based connections to address patients’ health needs as well as their health-related social needs. The MCP Model will provide participants with additional revenue to build infrastructure, make primary care services more accessible, as well as better coordinate care with specialists.

via CMS|

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