Health Care Delivery Committee
Chair,Health Care Delivery Committee
Michael D. Cabana, MD, MPHUniversity of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
UCSF Children's Hospital
Professor of Pediatrics, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
3333 California Street, Laurel Hgts, Ste 245
San Francisco, CA 94118
Phone: 415-476-5473
michael.cabana@ucsf.edu
Health Care Delivery Committee Goals
The Health Care Delivery Committee aims to identify effective strategies to care for all children, with a particular focus on vulnerable children. The 5 goals of the Committee are:
- To promote the use of and expand the evidence base for health care delivery for children.
- To promote the care of children in the context of families and communities.
- To teach the next generation how to implement effective health care delivery strategies for (at the individual and population level and with attention to systems of care).
- To identify emerging opportunities and challenges to improve the delivery of health care for vulnerable children (e.g., growth of interdisciplinary teams, use of information technologies).
- To promote scholarship with regard to promoting effective strategies to care for children.
February 2010 Newsletter Article
Health Care Delivery Committee Activity
Family-Centered Care White Paper
One focus of the Health Care Delivery Committee is the Applications of Family-Centered Care. The Committee is spearheading the writing of a White Paper on the current state of Family-Centered Care (FCC) in child health care. The paper evolved from the symposium on Family-Centered Care that the HCD sponsored at the 2009 PAS. The paper will serve as a review of advances in family-centered care, and provide specific recommendations on further implementing family-centered care across different clinical settings. The objectives of the paper are to (1) Enumerate core principles of family-centered care, (2) Describe current applications of family-centered care within child health care, and (3) Define an agenda for translating family-centered care into effective health care delivery and changes. The paper is being readied for submission in the spring of 2010.
The FCC paper is being lead by Dennis Kuo, (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences) and Amy Houtrow (University of California, San Francisco). Additional collaborators are John Neff, MD (University of Washington), Karen Kuhlthau, (Harvard Medical School), Jeffrey Simmons, (Cincinnati Children's Hospital), and Polly Arango (Family Voices). The collaborators represent a range of academic and clinical experiences with family-centered care across different settings.
Family-Centered Care Chair
Dennis Kuo
dzkuo@uams.edu
