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Current Projects
Healthy Steps
Part of a national early childhood intervention initiative, the Healthy Steps program, supports healthy development for children between the ages of zero to three. By integrating a Healthy Steps Specialist into Pediatric outpatient and inpatient settings, CHECK is able to offer families patient-centered services that promote healthy physical and emotional development, school readiness, and parental support.
Post-COVID Clinic Patient Navigation
CHECK partners with UI Health to offer patient-centered Care Navigation support to individuals experiencing ‘long haul’ symptoms of COVID-19. In collaboration with primary care and specialty departments, our Care Navigator offers supports like appointment scheduling, coordinating care between providers, behavioral health coordination, and patient advocacy.
Student Wellness
CHECK partners with the College of Medicine and the UIC Resiliency Center to offer behavioral health navigation support to students from UIC campuses in Chicago, Rockford, and Peoria. The CHECK Behavioral Health Navigation Team provides students with resources and referrals to link students to appropriate supports. Students also work collaboratively with their navigator to identify wellness goals that promote overall health and wellness.
Care Connect
CHECK Community Health Workers and Behavioral Health Coordinators provide comprehensive care coordination supports to adults living with chronic illness or disease. CHECK collaborates with other UI Health and Mile Square Health Center care coordinators to offer screening, assessment, referral, and resource support to patients enrolled in Care Connect. CHECK’s Behavioral Health team offers culturally sensitive support that addresses the unique barriers patients face when trying to access behavioral health services.
Child and Youth Clinic Behavioral Health Navigation
Our Behavioral Health Navigation Team coordinates pediatric behavioral health needs for patients seen in the Child and Youth Clinic at UI Health. Service offerings include linkage to behavioral health care, resource and referral coordination, education for caregivers around diagnosis and treatment, parent coaching for behavior management, and support for IEP/504 accommodations at school, and short-term behavioral health interventions.
Patient Engagement
CHECK utilizes Community Health Workers to improve patient engagement and quality improvement in clinics by offering brief patient education, appointment reminder calls, scheduling support, and brief health screenings and questionnaires.
Targeted HEDIS Support
CHECK partners with UI Health to provide targeted efforts to pursue improvement to HEDIS measure performance for assigned patients. These include measures followed by both Medicare and Medicaid insurance plans including: diabetes management measures (A1C, Medication Adherence, Diabetic Retinopathy Examinations), Colorectal Cancer Screenings, Cardiovascular Care measures and ensuring that insurance plan records reflect up to date information regarding services provided to patients to meet their needs.
PCORI BEST Study
Based on the original CHECK behavioral health model and expanding on the partnership built between CHECK and DSCC; researchers at UIC began the PCORI BEST study to pilot an integrated model of care coordination and behavioral health support for teens with disabilities. CHECK provides oversight of BEST behavioral health interventions as well as consultative and clinical support.
Past Projects
Department of Specialized Care for Children (DSCC)
CHECK previously collaborated with DSCC Home Care and Core Programs to provide care coordination support to children and youth with specialized healthcare needs. Services included intake and assessments, SSI/APORS Referrals, MEDI checks, developing and monitoring care plans, chart auditing, and reviewing/processing annual renewals.
CMMI Innovative Healthcare Delivery Grant
Over a four year period, CHECK provided comprehensive medical, social, and behavioral health care coordination support to marginalized children with chronic medical conditions and their families. A team of Community Health Workers used intake screening and assessments to tailor person-centered care plans that addressed the child’s healthcare needs and barriers the family had to accessing care. The Behavioral Health Team offered screening, supported referrals, and short-term interventions to support the child and/or family members mental health needs. See our CHECK History page to learn more about where it all started!