Happy Holidays from Partners For Kids
To our community partners, we wish you a peaceful and joyous holiday season! Together, we have positively impacted many children on Ohio Medicaid Managed Care this year, including those with diabetes, constipation, asthma, behavioral health conditions and more. In 2025, we look forward to focused improvement efforts on ensuring children have access to preventative and behavioral health follow-up care and improving outcomes for children with asthma and sickle cell disease. Through our collaboration with the Outcomes Acceleration for Kids (OAK) Learning Network, we will leverage the successes and challenges of our provider and managed care colleagues across the state to improve children’s health. Our mission of improving the health of children through high-value, innovative care and community partnerships would not be possible without you. Thank you for your partnership and for the positive impact you make every day on the families you serve. Happy holidays!
With gratitude,
Dr. Jonathan Thackeray
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2024 Provider Satisfaction Survey Results
Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2024 Partners For Kids Provider Satisfaction Survey. We received 30 responses, representing 31% of primary care providers and 80% of office managers asked to participate in the survey. Our team will use the feedback to enhance our current services and plan new services. Congratulations to the staff at South Dayton Pediatrics who won the drawing for lunch on us for completing the survey!
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2024 Maintenance Of Certification (MOC) Part IV Update
Each year, Partners For Kids is committed to offering Maintenance of Certification Part IV credit to community providers who are actively involved in a Partners For Kids’ sponsored quality improvement project. This year, we are proud to announce across our network that 75 quality improvement projects were claimed by 66 community providers for Maintenance of Certification Part IV credit. Thank you for your dedication to improved health outcomes for pediatric children on Ohio Medicaid Managed Care!
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ADHD in Primary Care Toolkit Now Available!
This Partners For Kids’ toolkit is designed to help health care professionals address the needs of their patients with ADHD. The toolkit includes a list of resources for providers, including prescribing guidelines, action plans, diagnosis cheat sheets and more.
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Quarterly Webinar Recording Now Available
The recording of the November 7 quarterly webinar, "A Focus on Preventative Care" featuring Alex Rakowsky, MD, and Beau Meyer, DDS, MPH, is now available.
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Resources from November’s Behavioral Health Training
During the “Cultural Adaptation of Behavioral Health Assessment and Treatment” webinar, attendees discussed the rationale for cultural adaptation and the different cultural adaptation frameworks. Attendees also discussed real-life examples of cultural adaptation and engaged in group discussion.
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2025 Partners For Kids Behavioral Health Course Offerings
Check out the monthly behavioral health training course offerings for 2025. Training sessions are open to all independently and dependently licensed behavioral health providers, as well as paraprofessionals. Attendance at one of these sessions satisfies the education requirement for Partners For Kids-credentialed behavioral health providers.
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Pharmacy and Prescribing Updates |
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New Guidance for Safe Contraceptive Use
For the first time since 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Reproductive Health updated the Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use. The Partners For Kids’ Contraceptive Pathway has been updated to include relevant changes that may impact decisions for contraceptive use with your patients. For any questions about the Partners For Kids’ Contraceptive Pathway, please contact PFKPharmacy@childrensdayton.org.
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New Urinary Tract Infections Prescribing Guidelines Resource
Partners For Kids recently updated the Prescribing Guidelines for UTIs. This resource provides a quick reference for how to treat uncomplicated UTIs in children, including general management, antibiotic dosage and duration, follow-up care and more. For any questions, please contact PFKPharmacy@ChildrensDayton.org
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December Managed Care Updates
View updates from the managed care plans on events and policy changes impacting their organizations.
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Partners For Kids Updates |
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Welcome New Members!
We are pleased to welcome the following providers and practices who joined the Partners For Kids provider network:
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Team Spotlight: Nancy Borger
Nancy Borger, BSN, RN, CPN is an RN Care Coordinator for the West Region. She assists families in navigating the health care system, connect them with resources, and assisting with appointment management. She has been with Partners For Kids since January of 2022. Nancy graduated with BSN from University of Cincinnati and has over 35 years of nursing experience. She has previously worked at Cincinnati Children’s, and has been with Dayton Children’s since 1994. Continuously dedicated to her nursing career, she became a certified pediatric nurse (CPN) in 2016. Nancy’s favorite part of her role at Partners For Kids is seeing families graduate from Care Navigation with the knowledge, skills, and resources they need to successfully care for their child.
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Important Dates
Wednesday, December 25: Partners For Kids' offices closed in observance of Christmas
Wednesday, January 1: Partners For Kids’ offices closed in observance of New Years Day
Friday, January 10, 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.: Behavioral Health Course Offering: “Mastering the Tools of the Trade: Assessing Suicide Risk in Practice”
Friday, February 14, 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.: Behavioral Health Course Offering: “The What, When, How and Why of Genograms”
Friday, March 14, 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.: Behavioral Health Course Offering: “There Are No Bad People: The Circumstances View of Problem Behavior Part 1”
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Did You Know?
If you have families that need help paying for utilities this time of year, FindHelp.org has many local resources that can support them. Visit FindHelp.org, type in your zip code, choose “Housing,” “Help pay for housing,” and “Help pay for utilities.”
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Contact Partners For Kids Provider Relations
If you have questions regarding any of the information in this newsletter or suggestions regarding newsletter content that would be useful to your practice, please contact us at Email: PFKProRelations@childrensdayton.org.
Phone: (419) 376-5667
Visit us at PartnersForKids.org.
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