Asthma

No child should enter an emergency room due to an asthma attack. Yet, asthma is one of the most common factors leading to emergency room visits and hospital admissions for children covered by Medicaid. CHCS resources can help states, health plans, and providers develop care management strategies to reduce problems related to asthma and keep children with asthma out of emergency rooms and hospitals.

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Care Management Strategies for High-Risk Pregnancy and High-Risk Asthma Download resources from this CHCS webinar, which outlined innovative approaches to identify and stratify the risks for children with severe asthma and women with high-risk pregnancies.	March 2007	Webinar Resources
Asthma Education Materials for Patients Education materials for helping people with asthma identify early warning signs and environmental triggers, effectively use control medications, and recognize when prompt medical help is necessary.	October 2006	Technical Assistance Briefs & Tools
Asthma Education Materials for Providers These materials can help providers better treat their patients with asthma.	October 2006	Technical Assistance Briefs & Tools
Improving Asthma Care for Children Toolkit: Best Practices in Medicaid Managed Care This toolkit includes strategies for improving asthma care tested by a diverse group of health plans and states serving Medicaid consumers.	July 2006	Toolkits
Asthma Plan/Practice Change Package This two-part tool uses the Chronic Care Model to outline provider site interventions and complementary health plan activities to improve asthma care.	April 2006	Technical Assistance Briefs & Tools
Alameda Alliance for Health: Leading a Collaborative Effort Against Asthma This participant in CHCS' California Asthma Collaborative has realized significant gains in its quality measures for children with asthma as a result of new partnerships with providers, community-based organizations, and Children's Hospital Oakland.	November 2005	Case Studies
The Bronx Improving Asthma Care for Children Project Affinity Health Plan sought to address the widespread problem of childhood asthma in New York City through a collaborative effort to establish an early detection, early intervention process coupled with state-of-art pediatric asthma treatment methods and community- and home-based family education.	July 2005	Technical Assistance Briefs & Tools
Asthma Plan/Practice Improvement Project June 2005 - February 2007	June 2005	Initiative
Monroe Plan & ViaHealth Partnership: 2001-2004 This final report outlines the experiences of the Monroe Plan in designing, implementing, and evaluating a sustainable approach to improving asthma care management in Rochester.	June 2005	Reports
Kansas City Children's Asthma Management Program: Asthma Action Plans and Cards This presentation details Family Health Partners' KC CAMP Asthma Action Plans and Cards. These action plans and cards were developed as part of a pilot asthma management program to improve asthma care for children.	May 2005	Technical Assistance Briefs & Tools
Measurably Improving Care for Kids with Asthma Through increased use of appropriate medications, Asthma Action Cards, and personalized action plans, Family Health Partners achieved a 40 percent reduction in asthma-related emergency department visits, a 50 percent reduction in asthma-related hospitalizations, and a decrease in the per member per month cost.	May 2005	Case Studies
Kansas City Children's Asthma Management Program: KC CAMP Family Health Partners Through an Improving Asthma Care for Children grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Family Health Partners developed KC CAMP, a pilot project to improve care for health plan members with asthma.	April 2005	Resource Papers
Achieving Better Care for Asthma: A BCAP Toolkit This Toolkit offers practical, realistic approaches that can help you: recognize common barriers faced by Medicaid plans in achieving better care for members with asthma; develop strategies to overcome these barriers; review strategies from other plans; and measure incremental and long-term change.	November 2002	Toolkits
Asthma Care for Children Financing Issues: A CHCS Chartbook The precipitous rise of asthma in the United States, particularly among children, has vast health, quality of life, and economic implications for patients. This Chartbook identifies the population of children with asthma and tracks asthma-related costs in private and publicly financed health care systems.	October 2001	Reports