Do phone referrals and follow-up count?
Answer A family home visit has to include a face-to-face encounter for referrals to be counted. Follow-up may be done as a phone visit. Question Under II B. Number of children current with the periodicity schedule for well-child care. What is well-child care? What is the periodicity schedule? What is “current?” Do you expect us to know what each doctor in our area considers to be their periodicity schedule? Answer Well-child care is early and periodic screening conducted as part of Child and Teen Checkup and/or the child’s health care provider. Although well-child care visits often include immunizations, an immunization only visit does not count as a well-child care visit. Schedules for these checkups vary, but often follow either Child and Teen Checkup’s schedule or the American Academy of Pediatrics’ schedule. A few health care providers have their own periodicity schedules, which would need to be ascertained by the FHV. This question requires that FHV make a nursing assessment of “c
