Developing an Ideal System of Health Care for Children with Special Needs

a project of the Lucille Packard Foundation for Children's Health

• Overview
• Wednesday Sept 9
• Attributes of the Health Care System
• Problems & Solutions
• Introduction
• What Works
• Models Talk
• Ethnography
• The Arc of Care Experience
• Closing Conversation
• Thursday Sept 10
• View Points in the Existing System
• Guiding Principles & Places to Intervene
• Ethnography Models
• Synthesis
• Closing Conversation
• Extras
• Workshop Participants
• Slide Show
• Pre-event Web Site

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• About InnovationLabs

Attributes of the Health Care System

 

Upon finishing breakfast, participants were given an assignment and started working together in pairs.

 

Assignment

Good morning!

We’re going to start right in on the first activity.

Please find a partner for this activity, preferably someone you don’t know, or don’t know well.

Around our meeting space there are a number of large white boards with questions.

With your partner, please visit each white board, and discuss the question there. 

Then write your comments on the board, and move on to the next board.

For the purposes of this activity, the definition of “children with special health care needs” is "those who have or are at increased risk for a chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional condition and who also require health and related services of a type or amount beyond that required by children generally.”

You have 30 minutes for this activity.

Please have a seat in the large group area when you’re finished.

Thank you!

 

Participant Work

 

Question: What are the significant problems with the current system of providing health care to children with special health care needs in California?

Question: If you had only $1 million to improve the system that provides care to children with special health care needs, how would you use it to make the most impact?

Question: What are the best aspects of the current system of providing health care to children with special health care needs in California?

Question: Imagine that all the individuals and organizations that provide and pay for health care for children with special healthcare needs in California constitute a system. What should the goals of the system be?

Question: If you could use only internet-based strategies to address the problems of children with special health care needs in California, what would you do?

Question: What challenges does the system of providing health care to children with special health care needs in California face in the coming ten years?

Question: If you could only intervene in one place to improve the system of providing health care to children with special health care needs in California, where would it be?

Question: What are your observations of prior efforts to reform the system of care for children with special health needs in California?

 

This process facilitated by InnovationLabs LLC.