Supplement to Evaluation Highlight No. 13

June 2015

Evaluation Highlight No. 13 is the 13th in a series that presents descriptive and analytic findings from the national evaluation of the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA) Quality Demonstration Grant Program. The Highlight focuses on lessons learned from nine States—Alaska, Florida, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oregon, Utah, and West Virginia. These States implemented learning collaboratives and subsequently reported quantifiable improvements in medical home capacity and/or health care quality among the 137 child-serving primary care practices that participated in the CHIPRA quality demonstration. The analysis is based on work completed by States during the first 4.5 years of their 5-year demonstration projects. The full text of the Highlight is available on the National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Program Web page.

This supplement to the Highlight provides an overview of the learning collaboratives in each of the nine States included in this analysis. State learning collaboratives had many similarities, but also differed on a number of dimensions summarized in this supplement and described in the Highlight.

Table 1: Summary of Learning Collaborative Structure and Features in Nine States

Abbreviations used in Appendix:

ADHD: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
BMI: Body mass index
CG-CAHPS: Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems, Clinician & Group Surveys
CYSHCN: Children and youth with special health care needs
IT: Information technology
LC: Learning collaborative
PCMH: Patient-centered medical home
PDSA cycle: Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle
QI: Quality improvement
URI: Upper respiratory infection