Strategies for Improvement

• Increase the clinical focus on preventive and well child care
• Take advantage of all office visits to provide well child care
• Educate parents and guardians about the importance of well child visits
• Hand out well child visit schedules to parents and guardians
• Use a reminder system to contact parents and guardians
• Document all well child visits in medical record
• Consider adopting an electronic medical record system, which allows you to target populations and individual patients who have not received up-to-date screenings
• Use free resources, such as those offered by AFMC (www.afmc.org/tools) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (immunization info at www.cdc.gov/nip, BMI info at www.cdc.gov/BMI)