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Three
Essential Partners To Ensure Coordinated Care:
1.
Parents
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Are empowered to be partners with health professionals in
the care of their child
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Bring the Passport each time their child has a health visit
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Take their child for routine checkups and all immunizations
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Learn to stimulate their child's development and keep their child
safe.
2.
Health Professionals
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reminded to perform and record recommended immunizations,
screenings, and health education at each well-child visit
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Educate
parents about age-appropriate development and safety issues
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Keep one copy of results for the child's file and forward one copy
to the community coordinator
3.
Community Coordinators
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Remind
parents of health care appointments
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Notify
the health professional if the child misses important services, such
as immunizations
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Prepare
reports for health policy planners
At
the heart of the Partners project is the
Denver
Child Health Passport
a
parent-held health record for children from birth through age 6
* A chart detailing when immunizations
and other preventive services are due
* Forms covering all the elements of complete and age-appropriate
well-child checkups
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Information for parents about how to stimulate their child's
development and keep child safe.
To
minimize paperwork, all forms are printed on self-copying paper. One
copy stays in the Passport, one is placed by the health provider in
the child's file, and one is sent to a community coordinator.
America
is failing her children
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More
than 40% of 2-year-olds are not immunized against preventable
diseases.
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Each
year, millions of children die or are injured in preventable
accidents.
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Many
young children with developmental delays are not identified. As a
result they don't get early treatment that could prevent more
serious disabilities.
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No comprehensive
tracking system exists to ensure that these problems are prevented.
What
the Partners Say
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"I
like being treated like a partner by my child's doctor."
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"I
like learning what my child will do next."
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" I
wish I would have had a Passport for my older children."
Health
Professionals say:
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"The
Passport gives me a unique opportunity to teach parents and get them
more involved in their child's care."
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"It
provides a record of the care a child has received - no matter how
often the family moves."
Community
Coordinators say:
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"I
like knowing that I'm part of a project that helps children get
preventive care."
For
further information contact:
ECHO
101
NORTH 14th Street
Canon
City, Co 81212
276-5700
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