Seattle Children's Hospital (SCH), in collaboration with several health plans and Washington State Department of Social and Health Services developed the Comprehensive Case Management (CCM) program with the goal to reduce costs of care for medically complex children cared for at SCH as well as improve their health status and the quality of care they receive. The CCM program aims to develop and facilitate a reliable and standardized process that empowers the child's primary care provider and provides him/her with the resources s/he needs to avoid unnecessary emergency department visits and admissions. Our study will include children who had a hospitalization or emergency department visit at Seattle Children's between 2009-2012 and, at that time, had multiple active chronic medical issues but had no specialty service at Seattle Children's to help their primary care providers manage them.
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Cost of Care
Timeframe: Baseline, 12 month, 18 month
Health Care Quality Ranking
Timeframe: Baseline, 12-months, 18-months
ED Visits Per Child
Timeframe: Baseline, 12-month, 18-month
Inpatient Admissions Per Child
Timeframe: Baseline, 12 month, 18 month
Hospital Days Per Child
Timeframe: Baseline, 12-Month, 18-Month