Kearney Kathleen A, McEwen Erwin, Bloom-Ellis Brice, Jordan Neil
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Child Welfare. 2010;89(2):39-55.
The National Quality Improvement Center on the Privatization of Child Welfare Services selected Illinois as a demonstration site in 2007 to evaluate performance-based contracting in residential treatment services. This article discusses the first two years of project implementation including developing residential treatment performance indicators, adjusting those indicators for risk at the provider level, and setting agency-specific benchmarks, as well as the project's fiscal foundation and related systemic improvements to support policy and practice change resulting from this initiative.
国家儿童福利服务私有化质量改进中心于2007年选择伊利诺伊州作为示范地点，以评估寄宿治疗服务中基于绩效的合同。本文讨论了项目实施的前两年，包括制定寄宿治疗绩效指标、在提供者层面针对风险调整这些指标、设定特定机构的基准，以及该项目的财政基础和相关的系统性改进，以支持这项举措带来的政策和实践变革。
