When we collaborate with partners who share our passion for child and family health, we get more done. The Washington Child Health Improvement Partnership, WA-CHIP, is an umbrella structure to advance collaborative efforts to improve child health statewide. We use a dual-pronged approach: support practice improvements to make measurable changes at the clinic level and inform and drive advocacy to make changes at the state level.
Our current work under WA-CHIP falls into two areas: First Year Families, which focuses on early childhood and family well-being, and Champions for Youth, which focuses on school-age children and adolescents.
The WA-CHIP Adolescent Immunizations Learning Collaborative has helped us dive into our own clinic’s immunization data and see where our strengths and weaknesses lie – and how we together, as a team, can implement changes that will improve the health and well-being of our patients. Without this partnership, our clinic would have never known the percentage of missed opportunities of adolescent immunizations outside of our preventive health visits.
Kitsap Children’s Clinic