SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Improving Follow-Up to Newborn Hearing Screening
- Notice Date
- 6/30/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541618
— Other Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Division of Procurement Management, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 13A-19, Rockville, MD, 20857
- ZIP Code
- 20857
- Solicitation Number
- 05N2405258-DP
- Response Due
- 8/15/2005
- Archive Date
- 8/30/2005
- Description
- Title: Improving Follow-Up to Newborn Hearing Screening by Working Through The Medical Home. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) intend to negotiate on a sole sources basis with the National Initiative for Children Healthcare Quality, 20 University Road, 7th Floor, and Cambridge, MA 02138. The National Initiative for Children Healthcare Quality shall use a quality improvement process to enhance the capacity of State Title V Programs and health delivery organizations to better meet the needs of infants suspected or known to have a hearing loss by improving follow up to newborn hearing screening by working with the Medical Home. The NAICS Code is s 541618. Approximately four million infants are screened each year for a variety of genetic and metabolic disorders that have the potential to affect their health and development . Early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of these disorders can ameliorate serious illness, disability, even death. For example, three out of every 1,000 infants are born with significant hearing loss. Recent efforts towards universal newborn hearing screening before hospital discharge have led to a substantial reduction in the age at which children with congenital permanent hearing loss are diagnosed. Clear evidence links this early identification and intensive early intervention with significant improvements in school-related measures such as reading, vocabulary, social adjustment and behavior compared to children who did not receive this early intervention. Despite clear evidence of improved physical and developmental outcomes, significant gaps remain, particularly in the areas of appropriate and timely diagnosis and intervention. In some states, only 1 in 5 children provided a referral to a sub specialist ever receive a confirmed diagnosis. Furthermore, the quality and consistency of linkages between initial screening, diagnosis, and intervention are variable. Hospital records frequently do not correctly identify the medical home for the infant; the medical home is not always supportive of the need for rapid follow-up testing for infants who do not pass pre-discharge hearing screening. Publicly funded infant and child health programs such as prenatal screening; Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children; high-risk infant follow up; and early intervention programs often operate independently of one another. The resulting duplication can lead to increased burdens on families and health professionals and higher costs. Improved coordination and integration will require collaboration among public health professionals, primary care providers, specialists, early intervention program leaders, and families. This contract will be conducted through two concurrent and interwoven components: first, strengthening State (Title V) capacity to support implementation and spread of the Medical Home; and second leading a Medical Home collaborative for primary care practices. Since 1994, the Center for Medical Home Improvement (CMHI) has helped to establish and support networks of parent/professional teams that work to improve the quality of primary care through medical homes for children and youth with special health care needs and their families. The CMHI has developed and validated a self-assessment and classification tool at their own expense designed to translate the broad indicators defining the medical home (accessible, family-centered, comprehensive, coordinated, etc.) into observable, tangible behaviors and processes of care within any office setting. It is a way of measuring and quantifying the ?medical homeness" of a primary care practice. The Medial Home Index (MHI) is based on the premise that "medical home" is an evolutionary process rather than a fully realized status for most practice settings. The MHI measures a practice's progress in this process. Due to their extensive involvement in the development and validation of the required tool, the Center for Medical Home Improvement has the following unique qualifications: (1) The development and extensive use of the medical home index with practices and families, over the past 10yrs (2) Databases of individual practices who have successfully utilized the Medical Home Index (3) Copyrights to the medical home index, both the provider and family indices and (4) Expertise to evaluate the impact of having a medical home on utilization and satisfaction outcomes utilizing the MHI. These unique qualifications enable the vendor to efficiently and effectively evaluate the medical home index. No other vendor can meet this requirement of such limited duration without substantial duplication of effort. The National Initiative For Children?s Healthcare Quality is the only organization that provides these services. . Any other organization that attempts to retrieve this type of privileged information would have to replicate their previous accomplishments. This replication would be a substantial duplication of cost that would not be recovered through competition, therefore, the National Initiative for Children?s Healthcare Quality , is a responsible source without substantial duplication of cost to the Government under authority 41 U.S. C. 253 (c), (1) as set forth in FAR 6.302-1. This is not a solicitation and published for information purposes only. A copy of the Justification for Other Than Full and O pen Competition is on file. Special Notice # 22
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