Adding Community Health Workers As Coaches For Medicaid Well-Child Care Visits Under Age 2 Improved Receipt Of Preventive Care Services

A care model that integrates a community health worker into Medicaid well-child care visits to provide early childhood preventive care services can improve the care that children receive. Parents whose children under age 2 attended well-child visits at a site offering the new model were more likely to receive recommended preventive guidance on what to expect than parents who visited sites that offered only usual care, at 73.9% to 63.3%. For both groups, the percentage of children with two or more emergency department visits was similar, at 37.2% for the intervention group and 36.1 . . .