Goal 2: Improve Health for New Mexicans

Task 2.1: Increase Immunizations for children and adolescents.

1. Populate Statewide Immunization Information System (SIIS) and train practitioners on its use.
2. Employ two FTEs to support SIIS maintenance and operations.
3. Increase consumer awareness and education regarding value of early vaccinations.
4. Increase number of school nurses who are able to utilize immunization registry.

Task 2.2: Improve health, developmental and educational outcomes of newborns; link low-income children, seniors, veterans and disabled individuals to needed health care services.

1. Increase paternity establishment contacts at hospital births and document child support case records. Additional child support specialists for Child Support Enforcement field offices will augment outreach and training to NM’s hospitals and birthing institutions to increase voluntary paternity establishment.
2. Monitor MCO performance on Medicaid Salud! program indicators. Require corrective action plans when performance on indicators is not at appropriate levels.
3. Implement self-directed waiver (SDW) program for Developmentally Disabled, Disabled and Elderly, HIV/AIDS, individuals with brain injuries and Medically Fragile Children.
4. Pursue pilot projects within Medicaid to enhance the home and community-based long-term care system, including the "money follows the person" and other Olmstead initiatives.
5. Work with other agencies to make additional community-based services available for seniors and disabled individuals who would otherwise be in institutional settings.
6. Expand centralized child support enforcement efforts such as insurance claims matching and allowing collections on insurance settlements to non-custodial parents.
7. Facilitate agreements between custodial and non-custodial parents that waive some payments of overdue child support (often at high interest rates) in order to promote the payment of current child support obligations, through Governor Richardson’s "Fresh Start" program. Finalize pilots and report to legislature about the program’s success.
8. Increase staff and provide improved customer service at income support field offices, especially around the federal Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) changes such as documentation of citizenship and other changes.
9. Implement the DRA eligibility requirements for Medicaid, especially documentation of citizenship, to assist as many eligible individuals as possible to be enrolled in the Medicaid program.