The Impact of the Children's Health Initiative (CHI) of Santa Clara County on Medi-Cal and Healthy Families Enrollment

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In preparing this report, we received support and assistance from many colleagues and evaluation stakeholders for which we are grateful: evaluation colleagues Embry Howell and Dana Hughes contributed their policy expertise and offered a number of thoughtful comments throughout the research; Michael Fitzwater and his colleagues at the Medical Care Statistics Section in the Department of Health and Human Services and Lesley Cummings and her staff at the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board provided the enrollment data used in this report and expertly and patiently answered questions about these data as we conducted our analysis; members of CHI's Local Evaluation Group (LEG) provided ongoing guidance during the design and analysis phases of the study; in particular, LEG member Mary Cardenas (with the County of Santa Clara Social Services Agency) provided critical feedback on the selection and division of MediCal eligibility codes for the analysis and LEG member Pat Posey (of the Santa Clara Family Health Plan) provided information on the counts of Healthy Kids members and other program features; Margo Rosenbach provided an excellent critical review; Cindy McClure adeptly produced the report; and Roy Grisham provided skilled editorial support. Any errors or omissions in this report are the sole responsibility of its authors. v CONTENTS