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The goal of Quality Community Managed Care is to develop partnerships between managed care organizations, the Division of Specialized Care for Children, the Illinois Title V program, and families of Children with Special Health Care Needs in order to improve care and ease access for children with special health care needs. This project is funded by a grant from the Maternal Child Health Bureau, Department of Health and Human Services. Project Partners: Division of Specialized Care for Children, University of Illinois at Chicago, is Illinois's official agency responsible for helping children with certain chronic health problems and their families by providing care coordination, specialized diagnostic care, and appropriate specialty medical care. Health Alliance Medical Plans, Urbana IL, is a managed care organization that serves over 200,000 members in Illinois and Iowa. More that 150 children receive care through both Health Alliance and the Division of Specialized Care for Children. Midland Management Company LLC, Rockford IL is a managed care organization that provides third party administration and management for an Independent Physicians Organization and a variety of other companies. Families of children with special needs who reside in the two DSCC administrative regions served by Health Alliance Medical Plans and Midland Management Company LLC. |