California Department of Healthcare Services

Provider Web Links

• Alta California Regional Center
  Alta California Regional Center creates and maintains partnerships to support all persons with developmental disabilities, children at risk, and their families in choosing services and supports through individual lifelong planning to achieve satisfying lifestyles in their own communities.
• Early Head Start National Resource Center
  Early Head Start (EHS) is a federally funded community-based program for low-income families with infants and toddlers and pregnant women.
• Medi-Cal Provider Manuals
  The Medi-Cal provider manuals contain information about the Medi-Cal Program. Providers can search the manuals using keywords and phrases.
• Denti-Cal Provider Manual
  This manual contains basic information about the California Medi-Cal Dental Program, known as "Denti-Cal." It is designed to provide detailed information concerning Denti-Cal policies, procedures and instructions for completing the necessary forms and other related documents.
• Social Security Administration

Nutrition Manuals for Special Health Care Needs - Downloadable

• Nutrition Strategies for Children with Special Health Care Needs, 2nd Edition, 1999
  This manual is designed for health care professionals working with the special needs population such as CCS Nurse Evaluators and Medical Therapy Staff.  It provides anticipatory guidance for nutrition issues and problem specific strategies.
• Nutrition Interventions for Children with Special Health Care Needs, 3rd Edition, 2010
  This manual is designed for registered dietitians (RD) who are responsible for nutrition assessments and intervention of children with special health care needs.  It is a recently released technical manual that will assist Special Care Center RDs with many CCS eligible medical conditions.