MINNEAPOLIS, April 28, 2008—The Minnesota Department of Human Services is seeking qualified grantees to pilot primary care clinic models of care delivery focused on care coordination and family involvement.

A successful grantee will develop and administer one of up to four pilot projects for children and adults with complex health care needs who are enrolled in fee-for-service Medical Assistance program.

Each project must involve the use of designated care professionals or clinics to serve as a patient’s medical home and be responsible for coordinating health care services across the continuum of care.

The law authorizing this grant program requires at least two of the projects to focus on children with autism or children with complex/multi-diagnoses physical conditions.

Each project will be evaluated based on patient satisfaction, provider satisfaction, clinical process and outcome measures, program costs and savings, and economic impact on health care providers.

The total legislative appropriation for these projects is $750,000.00 for the period July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2010.

More information available at www.dhs.state.mn.us, or by calling Thomas Fields at (651) 431-2487.