Thank you for your interest in the
Transition Health Care Checklist.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health Southwest Regional staff and their community partners recognized a gap in health services for youth with special health care needs. When these youth leave school, they transition from having different or no insurance coverage, from seeing pediatric specialists to searching for adult medical specialists, and from good coverage for medications to having to understand new systems for obtaining medicines. Working with the State Transition Team, agencies, and families, the Transition Health Care Checklist (PDF); Text; Spanish (PDF) was created to guide youth, families, and professionals during this time of change.

Information and Feedback

For more information about the Checklist, contact:

Department of Health
Bureau of Family Health
625 Forster Street
7th Floor, East Wing
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120

 or

Special Health Care Needs Consultants

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