Enhancing Behavioral Healthcare
The Child & Family Health Collaborative of Ohio is the leading community behavioral healthcare network in Ohio. With a focus on children and families, our clinically integrated network encompasses provider agencies in every region of the state, 3,500+ health care practitioners, and collectively serves more than 60,000+ clients each year. Together, we are enhancing our behavioral healthcare performance, quality, and efficiency to improve outcomes for kids and families.
Our Goal
We aim to advance whole health outcomes for children and families in Ohio by bring Ohio’s behavioral health providers together to achieve the Triple Aim: promote best practices in patient experience, advance population health, and reduce costs.
Our Quality Approach
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Led by a Quality Committee of clinical leaders from provider organizations, a consulting child and adolescent psychiatrist, and expert health care consultants.
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Provides monthly oversight of quality strategy implementation including analysis of performance data, quality implementation plan development, and clinical peer guidance.
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Utilizes the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) framework as a basis for clinical quality improvement.
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Leverages tools provided by Ohio’s two health information exchange (HIE) to inform our performance and equip our network with the resources and notifications needed to provide timely care.
Quality Measures
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Follow-Up After Hospitalization for Mental Illness (FUH)
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Follow-Up After Emergency Department Visits for Mental Illness (FUM)
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In-Patient (IP) & Emergency Department (ED) Diversion
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Medication Monitoring and Adherence Practices
National vs. Collaborative
Performance Measures
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Network Benefits
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Access to higher Medicaid reimbursement rates
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Contract negotiation and technical assistance
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Enhance your organization’s relevance by participating in value-based health care without financial risks - generating new revenue
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Annual Performance Reports – Improve HEDIS & total cost of care outcome measures
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Monthly and Quarterly Benchmark Reports – data driven
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CliniSync HIE Notifications of client hospitalizations
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Collaborate with peers to enhance quality improvement
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Support with quality trainings and handbooks
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1:1 technical assistance by Collaborative staff and billing & coding consultants (no extra cost)