King County Healthy Homes Project

Washington

Through the King County Healthy Homes Project, community health workers conduct home visits to low-income families with children with uncontrolled asthma. The high-intensity model includes an initial home visit by a community asthma nurse who provides patient education, training in self-management, the development of a patient-specific asthma action plan and case management/review. Families then receive in-home support, education, indoor trigger identification and resources to address environmental triggers. The low-intensity model includes an initial home visit only. During the visit, the community asthma nurse conducts an environmental assessment, develops a home action plan, provides limited education and gives families bedding encasements.

Partner Organizations

Target Population

Medicaid/CHIP children with asthma

Care Team

Community health workers

Timeframe

1999 - present

Results/ Studies

The Seattle-King County Healthy Homes Project: A Randomized, Controlled Trial of a Community Health Worker Intervention to Decrease Exposure to Indoor Asthma Triggers (2005)

Funding

Federal grant

Resources

Program description

Environmental Health Perspective article (2002)