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Addressing Social Health and Early Childhood Wellness (ASHEW) Practice Application
Thank you for your interest in the American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP) Addressing Social Health and Early Childhood Wellness (ASHEW).
Practices that participate in this collaborative will work to develop and implement effective systems and processes for addressing social determinants of health, maternal depression, social-emotional development, and resilience in primary pediatric practice.
Practices that wish to participate must:
Practices that participate in this collaborative will work to develop and implement effective systems and processes for addressing social determinants of health, maternal depression, social-emotional development, and resilience in primary pediatric practice.
Practices that wish to participate must:
1. Provide pediatric primary care, including at least ten 0-6 month well child visits per month and ten each 6-, 15-, 24-, and 48-month well child visits per month.
2. Secure approval from practice leadership to participate in this project.
3. Identify a core quality improvement (QI) team responsible for providing leadership and oversight within the practice for the initiative.
2. Secure approval from practice leadership to participate in this project.
3. Identify a core quality improvement (QI) team responsible for providing leadership and oversight within the practice for the initiative.
- The team should include, at a minimum, a primary care physician who will serve as physician champion and Maintenance of Credit (MOC) local leader; a clinical support staff; and an additional team member such as front office staff, practice manager, or care coordinator to be responsible for project data submission. Practices may choose to include additional members on the core QI team. All practice staff can participate in educational offerings.
- Practices must actively recruit a family advisor to serve on the core QI team. The family advisor does not need to be identified prior to applying to participate in the project. The role will provide guidance to the practice team and use their voice to represent the family perspective.
4. If required, seek Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval for participation. Please note, the AAP IRB has approved this project. The AAP IRB approval is usually sufficient for most participating practices since no identifiable protected health information (PHI) is being collected for this project.
The application deadline is July 24, 2020
This application can be completed by the physician champion/MOC leader or their designee. If you are unable to finish the survey in one session, you may return to the survey later; however, you must use the same computer and your computer must be set to accept cookies. If you do not have your computer set to accept cookies, you will have to restart the application from the beginning.
For more information, please contact Isra Uz-Zaman at iuzzaman@aap.net or 916-274-4173.
The application deadline is July 24, 2020
This application can be completed by the physician champion/MOC leader or their designee. If you are unable to finish the survey in one session, you may return to the survey later; however, you must use the same computer and your computer must be set to accept cookies. If you do not have your computer set to accept cookies, you will have to restart the application from the beginning.
For more information, please contact Isra Uz-Zaman at iuzzaman@aap.net or 916-274-4173.