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Step 1: Assess Your Clinic’s Youth Health Transition Services and Identify Needs
The first step in improving Youth Health Transition (YHT) services is to evaluate what you are already doing. All practices provide some level of transition services, whether through early engagement and participation of an adolescent or young adult with pediatric and adult health care teams or having a process in place to shift consent to the adolescent or young adult for personal health care decisions.
This step will utilize the Quick Scan Checklist to identify the YHT services and anticipatory guidance that are already embedded within your clinic’s adolescent well-care visits.
Goal:
The goal of this step is to identify 1-3 tasks or services that will make it easier (or possible) for your clinic to successfully provide youth health transition services to your patients.
1. Inventory Existing Youth Transition Services and Processes
Fill out the Quick Scan Checklist to help assess what you're already doing to help your patients transition to adult care.
As you work through the list, consider how consistently these tasks are performed. If an item isn’t performed with the majority of patients, don’t check it off.
2. Determine Gaps in Services and Opportunities to Improve Workflows
Take a look at your Quick Scan Checklist. How does it look? Sections with many unchecked boxes are the areas you may want to focus on. These will be your priority tasks for improvement.
If a lot of the boxes are checked, great job! Your clinic already has a lot of services in place to help adolescents and young adults shift to an adult model of care. You may still find this toolkit helpful for improving service delivery or establishing a formal process to make service delivery more consistent across providers.
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Create a process or timeline for identifying youth who are ready to receive transition services from a provider and tracking their progress.
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Establish a consistent practice of meeting with adolescent and young adult patients without their parents at some point during their visit.
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Create a list of talking points about health care management for providers to discuss with their patients to prepare them for transition.
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Provide referrals to adult providers and communicate with the selected provider to begin transfer of care.
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Follow up with patients 3-6 months after transferring care to confirm the transition was successful.
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Add Youth Health Transition services to your clinic’s Electronic Health Records (EHR).
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Use CPT codes to bill for Youth Health Transition services
Need Help?
Our experts can provide technical assistance to you through this process. Fill out the Implementation Training and Support Request Form and contact us at BFH-FamilyResourceCenter@la.gov or 504-568-3405 for more information.