about the foundation
The Children’s Health Foundation, a 501(c)(3) corporation, was formed
in the fall of 2007 for the purpose of improving children’s health
care in our community. The Foundation provides coordinated quality improvement
initiatives for Alliance members, adoption of standards and measures for
children’s health care, education about those standards and measures,
and advocacy for children’s health care benefits. These are accomplished
through the Alliance’s pediatric community and collaboration with insurers,
the government, employers, pediatricians and other health care providers.
The Foundation and Children’s Health Alliance share certain members of the Board of Directors. However, any activity related to the Foundation is for the sole purpose of quality improvement and educational activity.
Current Foundation Activities
- Educational seminars and training. The Foundation raises awareness through educational seminars provided to the Children’s Health Alliance pediatric community on health care topics such as immunizations, quality improvement methods, asthma education, etc.
- Quality improvement initiatives. The Foundation chooses specific disease
or wellness quality improvement initiatives with the goal of improving
the management of children’s
health. Currently, the Foundation is focused on two quality improvement inititiaves:
- Asthma. The purpose of this initiative is to develop
a web-based registry to track data from the children with asthma within
the Children’s
Health Alliance clinics. The registry’s goals are:
(1) To improve the overall health of the asthmatic population within the CHA clinics;
(2) To provide better preventative services to children with asthma;
(3) To reduce asthma-related ED utilization and hospitalizations. - Immunization tracking. The Immunization Tracking Improvement Initiative will increase the accuracy of pediatrician reporting of immunizations given to children under the age of two to the Oregon Immunization ALERT.
- Asthma. The purpose of this initiative is to develop
a web-based registry to track data from the children with asthma within
the Children’s
Health Alliance clinics. The registry’s goals are:
These activities are funded through grants and donations from government, private foundations and employers, and health care organizations. If you would like to sponsor or/and support our activities, please contact the Executive Director.
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