December 21, 2023

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TCCN Friends and Colleagues,

We wanted to take this opportunity to wish you and your families a very happy and healthy holiday season.

As always, we want to thank you for being a part of The Children's Care Network. It is through your hard work and dedication that we can work together to improve the quality of care we deliver for the children of Georgia.

We will see you in the new year as we look forward to new quality improvement programs and continued growth and success as a network.

Warmest wishes to you and yours,

The Children's Care Network

TCCN is committed to Network Quality Improvement and the ability to demonstrate change in practice. As we continue to improve and evolve as a network, the setting of minimum standards is an important step to take in order to ensure compliance and meet Clinical Integration Requirements. 

For this year, we will continue to place a focus on Asthma Action Plan, BMI coding, and depression screening as important measures of focus.

As a reminder, the minimum standards for 2023 are:

• All practices are required to meet the minimum standard of 15% for coding for Asthma Action Plans by 12/31/2023.
• All practices are required to meet the minimum standard of 55% for coding for BMI by 12/31/2023.
• All practices are required to meet the minimum standard of 45% for coding for Depression Screening by 12/31/2023.

Although the well child 3-21 metric is not currently a component of our minimum standard program; it is a measure of focus for this year and we are including it so that we can continue to monitor our progress on this important measure as a network.

Click Here to View the Latest Minimum Standard Scorecard.

As always, if you have questions about your practice's performance, need help with your practice's secret number, or have any other questions about the minimum standard requirement, please reach out to your dedicated TCCN provider relations rep or send an email to Laura Baldwin at laura.baldwin@tccn-choa.org.

We are excited to present to you our TCCN RSV Toolkit! The RSV Toolkit is designed to guide practices through the necessary steps in providing support to your staff and your patients/families. The information will be changing as we learn more from our respected partners in clinical practice, compliance/risk, billing/coding, and reimbursement, as well as the AAP, CDC, and FDA.

The TCCN Obesity & Diabetes Webinar recording is now available for viewing. This is an educational webinar on the new AAP guidelines for obesity, with a special focus on patients with diabetes. The recording is roughly 1 hours, 20 minutes long.

If you missed the webinar or would like a replay, please click here to view.



As part of our Quality Program for the year, after watching the recording you may also complete the attestation to receive participation credit.

The Newborn Circumcision Center is a concierge service designed specifically for parents looking for a trusted source for their newborn child’s care. Their team of board-certified pediatric urologists, fellows, and nurse practitioners have performed thousands of circumcisions, offering parents of newborn sons the confidence they need when considering this specialized procedure.

Please check out their website here to view additional practice information.

Thank you to all who joined us for our 3-part virtual series 'Antibiotic Stewardship: Why it's Important for Your Practice and Patients'.

This lunchtime series presents the new Georgia Pediatric Antibiotic Stewardship website, gpas-online.org, designed to help you in your busy practices with guidelines and a new antibiogram visualization tool.

Please follow the links below to view the recordings for all three webinars:

Webinar #1: How to Access and Use the Website

Webinar #2: Prescribing Guide

Webinar #3: Antibiotic Dosing: Maximize antibiotic adherence, limit wastage, and promote antibiotic stewardship

Are you a pediatric provider who wants to help children with their mental health needs? The REACH Institute has a wonderful opportunity for Greater Atlanta providers to be trained to do exactly that. 

REACH is accepting applications for the Greater Atlanta Area PPP Scholarship. The scholarship's goal is for pediatric primary care providers in the Atlanta area to participate in REACH's continuing medical education program, Patient-Centered Mental Health in Pediatric Primary Care (PPP). Each scholarship covers a three-day weekend course and six months of case-based group video calls. Through interactive practice and application of course content to cases, we help PCPs meet the high need of assessing and treating children's mental health in primary care. 

There are two upcoming virtual training dates, January 19-21, 2024 & February 2-4, 2024. If you or your colleagues are in the greater Atlanta area, please encourage them to complete our short application: Atlanta Scholarship Application.

You can download the full flyer here which includes more details and a testimonial from one of our TCCN pediatricians!

In Case You Missed It (please use the links below to review)

TCCN Requirements

• 2023 Primary Care Quality Program Attestation
• March 23rd Clinical Quality Forum Recording and Attestation - DEI Education and Meeting Attendance Requirement
• Effective August 1st: 2-Week Data Submission Requirement

TCCN Resources

• TCCN COVID-19 Diagnosis and Isolation Algorithm
• Endocrinology Referral Guide
• Nephrology Referral Guideline
• TCCN Seizure Action Plan
• TCCN Allergy Resources

Community Updates

• URAC Clinical Integration Accreditation Announcement
• UpToDate Registration Tip Sheet
• Children's Urgent Care Locations, Hours, and Scope Updates
• Antibiotic Alternatives Tip Sheet
• Fever Updates & Helpful Resources Communication

We are here for you. Please reach out to contact@tccn-choa.org with any questions.