NEW! "Choosing a quality medical home" bookmark is now available.

A new bilingual (English/Spanish) bookmark entitled "Choosing a Quality Medical Home" is now available from the North Carolina Healthy Start Foundation.The bookmark defines what a medical home is, why it is important and suggests questions that can be asked when choosing a quality medical home.Questions listed are based on the characteristics of a quality medical home as defined by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Target audiences for receiving this brochure include:

• New or about-to-be new parents

• Children who have recently enrolled in Health Check or NC Health Choice

• Families who have children with special health care needs

• Families who have just moved and need to establish a new medical home for their children

• Children from minority communities who need to choose a quality medical home

Special thanks to DPH's Medical Home Initiative Work Group that created this new bookmark and to the providers and families who focus tested it prior to the publication!

To order the bookmark in bulk via fax, mail or online, as well as other free materials available through the "Health Check / NC Health Choice" and " The Right Call Every Time, Your Medical Home" campaigns, visit the Foundation's Web site at: www.NCHealthyStart.org and click on "Order." To view all materials available, click on "Catalog."

These materials have been brought to you by the
NC Healthy Start Foundation and the NC Division of Public Health, Children and Youth Branch.