Lessons Learned from a Quality Improvement Initiative: Adverse Childhood Experiences Screening in a Pediatric Clinic.

Unlabelled: Universal screening for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) is recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics due to downstream health risks. However, widespread screening practices have not been adopted.

Methods: We used quality improvement methods to establish ACEs screening in a busy pediatric clinic that serves primarily Medicaid-insured and Spanish-speaking patients.

Integrating Behavioral Health Care into an Urban Hospital-Based Pediatric Primary Care Setting.

Integration of behavioral health into pediatric primary care clinics is a recommended practice with potential to address the mental health needs of underserved children. We describe our process of integrating a behavioral health team into our hospital-based pediatric practice that serves a low-income, ethnically diverse, and underserved population of children and youth in the southeastern U.S.

Cracking the Nut on LCME Standard 8.7: Innovations to Ensure Comparability Across Geographically Distributed Campuses.

A large state university in the southeastern United States and state Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) collaborated to establish branch campuses to increase clinical capacity for medical student education. Prior to formally becoming branch campuses, two AHEC sites had established innovative curricular structures different than the central campus. These sites worked with the central campus as clinical training sites.