Medicaid requires outreach and informing for families to ensure that children are enrolled and make the best use of coverage; and in reaching families and connecting them to medical homes and needed services, processes need to be effective and culturally and linguistically responsive. [...] SCREENING AND RESPONSE Financing a continuum of screening for the child’s physical, social, and behavioral development and social determinants that affect health and development. [...] For example: 0 Developmental screening for physical, social, cognitive, and other delays—with ongoing monitoring and follow-up for those with identified risks including diagnosis and linkages to the Part C Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers and other responses to developmental risks and needs (e.g., family support programs, Head Start, home visiting, high quality childcare) for th. [...] METRICS AND MEASURES TO MONITOR QUALITY AND OUTCOMES Using and developing measurement approaches at the clinical level and at the population level that correspond to a broad definition of child health and the components of high value medical homes and early childhood comprehensive systems. [...] American Academy of Pediatrics and Health Care Resources and Services Administration, US Department of Health and Human Services.
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