resources for families

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Improvement Strategies

Fax back receipt of Did Not Pass results

Confirm follow-up appointment at the first visit

Standardize office procedures for data-sharing with the EHDI Team

Complete the Kentucky EHDI Road Map with the family, planning and coordinating expected care and referrals

Streamline authorizations to eliminate delay to specialty providers such as ENT and genetics

Offer and provide referral to Guide By Your Side or other parent support groups

Refer to early intervention within 48 hours of diagnosis

Obtain a consent for release of information at first contact

Record data in the state EHDI reporting system (Enter in KY CHILD or fax to KY EHDI at 502-429-7160)

Resources: Tools for Improvement

Physician Resources for children failing the Newborn Hearing Screen or Diagnosed with hearing Loss

Childhood Hearing Loss Brochure

Unilateral Hearing Loss Brochure

KY Pediatric Hearing Loss Detection, Documentation and Intervention Tool

Guidelines for Medical Management for Children with Hearing Loss in the Medical HOme

Physician Letter - Failed Newborn Hearing Screen

Physician Letter - PCHL Diagnosis

Strengthen Care Coordination

Enhancing Collaboration Between Primary and Subspecialty Care Providers for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs

Sample "Did Not Pass" Physician Fax Back Form

Hearing Screening: Coding Fact Sheet (National Center of Medical Home Initiatives)

Hearing Screening: Denial Management and Negotiation (National Center of Medical Home Initiatives)

Engage Families as Partners

Hands and Voices brochure

Guide by Your Side brochure

Kentucky Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (KCDHH)

NCHAM News: Technology helps Kentucky School for the deaf students read to, teach hearing youth

Connect to Community Resources

Commission for Children with Special Health Care Needs Website

First Steps Website

Kentucky School for the Deaf Website

Training Opportunities

This Pedialink Module focuses on the early identification of hearing loss, and promotes the integration of developmental screening and public health screening into the medical home.

"Although most pediatricians believe that they have primary responsibility for follow-up planning for children who do not pass their hearing screens, they frequently do not have the access they need to screening-test results or to the results of any subsequent diagnostic evaluations."