South Carolina was one of 10 grantees selected to participate in this federal quality demonstration grant. The grant is aimed at establishing and improving the quality of children’s healthcare through measures of quality, promotion of health information technology, and evaluation of provider-based models. The South Carolina grant has four key goals:
The CHIPRA QI project represents a unique opportunity for South Carolina pediatricians to help develop quality improvement tools that will lead to better health outcomes for current and future generations of patients. The grant also provides generous incentives to participating practices. These include:
Academic Pediatrics (May 2015) study sample includes 33,895 publicly insured children attributed to 32 practices