State at a Glance: New Mexico
New Mexico is featured in the following reports from the National Evaluation:
- Evaluation Highlight No. 3: How are CHIPRA Quality Demonstration States working to improve adolescent health?
- Evaluation Highlight No. 6: How are CHIPRA Quality Demonstration States working together to improve the quality of health care for children?
- Evaluation Highlight No. 8: CHIPRA quality demonstration States are helping school-based health centers strengthen their medical home features.
Learn more about New Mexico’s CHIPRA quality demonstration projects on this page:
Overview
New Mexico is working with Colorado, one of the 10 grantees, to implement projects in two of the five grant categories:
- Implementing a more comprehensive provider-based model of service delivery.
- Testing an approach to quality improvement of the State's own design.
New Mexico's Objectives
New Mexico is working to help school-based health centers (SBHCs): improve the quality of preventive and treatment services they provide to children and adolescents; coordinate more seamlessly with other providers in the community; and further engage students in their health and health care.
Assessing a Provider-Based Model of Care
In conjunction with its partner State, New Mexico is helping selected SBHCs define and achieve quality improvement goals. Participating SBHCs will complete a medical home assessment and conduct a student survey to identify areas for improvement. New Mexico will hire and support quality improvement coaches who will work with the SBHCs to develop and implement a quality improvement strategy tailored to each center.
New Mexico also is working with Colorado on strategies to increase the delivery of preventive services (e.g., immunizations and the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) program) and the management of certain conditions (e.g., obesity, depression). The quality improvement coaches will work with SBHCs to implement these strategies and develop or improve their existing systems for tracking and reporting on these services and conditions.
Testing a Quality Improvement Approach of Colorado's Own Design
New Mexico is supporting selected SBHCs in efforts to increase youth engagement in their health and health care by improving students' health literacy and helping them manage their care across health care settings. The State collaborated with Colorado to develop a survey, the Youth Assessment of School Health Involvement, which SBHCs will use to assess youth engagement at the beginning and near the end of the program.
Evaluation Questions
The national evaluation team will be gathering information from New Mexico to address a wide range of questions about the implementation and outcomes of its efforts, including:
- How did New Mexico select and develop working relationships with participating SBHCs?
- To what extent were the SBHCs successful in improving use of preventive services?
- Did youth who received services from participating SBHCs report more engagement in their health and health care at the end of the school year compared with its beginning?
- What are the key lessons from New Mexico's experience that would be useful for other States?
Additional Resources
New Mexico School-Based Health Centers Encounter Data Analysis
Medical encounter data were analyzed for adolescents aged 14-19 from 61 school-based health centers in New Mexico for the years 2010-2011 and 2011-2012.
Note: These reports have been submitted by the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration States and are made available on this Web site as a courtesy. The description of any product, policy, program, or other resource on this Web site does not imply an endorsement by AHRQ, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), or any other Government agency.
Learn More
This information is current as of February 2014, slightly more than 4 years after the grant award. To learn more about the projects that New Mexico is implementing under the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program, please contact:
Eric Wolf, Project Director
1570 Grant Street
Denver, CO 80203
303-866-5963
Eric.Wolf@state.co.us
