Wayne Children's Healthcare Access Program (WCHAP)

Wayne Children’s Healthcare Access Program (WCHAP) is a private-public collaborative that was recently awarded a two-year demonstration grant from The Kresge Foundation to improve the quality of care to Wayne County children while simultaneously lowering associated health care costs.

WCHAP is part of a national movement to increase the quality of healthcare by increasing the “medical homeness” of primary care practices. The medical home is an approach that transforms primary care practices to be more accessible, continuous, comprehensive, family-centered, coordinated, compassionate, and culturally effective.

The Children’s Healthcare Access Program, CHAP is a proven medical home model that will impact 25,000 Medicaid Children in Detroit-Wayne County. Working in Collaboration with the Pilot Primary Care Practices, Health Plans, State and Local Health and Mental Health, Education, Families and Community Based Organizations, WCHAP will serve 2,500 to 3,000 children with direct services designed to:

1. Increase Quality, Well Child Visits And Care Coordination
2. Decrease Costs By Lowering Unnecessary ER And Hospitalizations
3. Support Primary Care Practices And School Health Clinics Improve ‘Medical Homeness’
4. Specialty Collaborations: Asthma, Obesity Integrated Mental and Physical Health and Maternal-Child-Teen Health

To learn more about the program visit the WCHAP website at www.dwchap.org.

Click on a link below for current WCHAP information: