nd expand coverage for Medicaid and CHIP enrollees during the COVID-19 public health emergency, sourced from state websites and approved Medicaid and CHIP disaster relief state Medicaid plan (SPA) amendments.
How States Are Facilitating Medicaid Enrollment During COVID-19 — And How They Can Do Even More: Summarizes conclusions of a content analysis of strategies used by states to facilitate Medicaid enrollment for individuals (adults and children) who are newly eligible due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this blog post, the Center for Health Care Strategies [CHCS] and the Institute for Medicaid Innovation [IMI] explore trends identified in their analysis of how state Medicaid agencies are supporting Medicaid enrollment during COVID-19, and opportunities to enhance those efforts.
Addressing the Needs of Medicaid Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Collects resources for health care stakeholders aimed at lessening harmful impacts of COVID-19 on high-risk populations. Vulnerable populations that rely heavily on Medicaid, including families with low-incomes, people of color, and those with complex medical, behavioral health, and social needs, are being disproportionately impacted. The Center for Health Care Strategies [CHCS] pledges to expand and refresh this library of key guidance, reference materials, and tools over time.)
New York: COVID-19 Guidance for Medicaid Providers: Serves as a one-stop repository for rapid dissemination of quickly evolving guidance to take fullest possible advantage of extraordinary flexibilities in Medicaid health care coverage (e.g. tele-health, direct support for persons needing long-term care, child and family treatment support, transportation), and as a clearinghouse for key federal (e.g. CDC, CMS) and state-specific information. Note: Every state Medicaid program is unique, within broad federal parameters. States can and often do learn from and adapt innovations from one another to best meet the needs of their own populations.
National Association of School Nurses: Coronavirus Disease 2019 Resources: Provides guidance and numerous resources to assist school nurses in planning for post-COVID return to school for students, provision of virtual care, use of personal protective equipment (PPE), safe transmittal of resources between home and school, teaching students and families about risks and safe behaviors, and more.
Return to School Roadmap - A Resource for Parents on Returning to In-Person Learning (en Espanol): Offers a checklist to help parents prepare for their children’s safe return to school for the 2021-2022 school year. The US Department of Education’s roadmap provides information to help parents:
- Plan for eligible children to get vaccinated
- Talk to your school about health and safety protocols
- Talk with children who are not yet eligible for a vaccine about strategies to keep them safe at school
- Make a plan to access safe transportation to and from school
- Talk with your child’s teacher about your child’s needs, and
- Connect to support
Preparing Your Child to Go Back to School In-Person (en Espanol): Offers insights to understand nature of predictable anxiety in young students and family members in anticipation of return to in-person learning after more than a year of interrupted learning. “Parents are out of practice when it comes to commuting and kids are out of practice dealing with full days and a full week of in-person school. The beginning of the school year is always a time of adjustment, with some anxiety, but now that’s amplified for a lot of kids, because it’ll be a long day for many who have been used to shorter days, intermittent study times, and lighter demands.” Child Mind Institute offers several recommendations, including trying to not subject students to all the changes at once.
Catalyzing Family, School, and Community Partnerships: Reports about the programs and services that 12 current statewide family engagement centers (SFECs) are providing to families, practitioners, community stakeholders and state leaders; provides highlights of specific resourc