NYMAC
(New York-Mid-Atlantic Consortium for Genetics and Newborn Screening Services)

Workgroups

Workgroup 1: Develop and implement local solutions to barriers to access to specialty care by children with congenital conditions.

Workgroup 2: Articulate a regional coordinating plan to address the maldistribution of genetic and newborn screening services and expertise across the region.

Workgroup 3: Develop a regional and interregional (with Regions 1, 3 and 4) back-up system for newborn screening in case of emergency shutdown.

Workgroup 4: Standardize, as appropriate and possible, newborn screening panels in the region in light of the March of Dimes recommendations and those anticipated from the DHHS Advisory Committee in Heritable Disorders and Genetic Diseases in Newborns and Children.

Workgroup 5A: Educate patients and their families about the treatment of people with specific genetic conditions.

Workgroup 5B: Educate primary medical care providers and medical insurers about the treatment of people with specific genetic conditions.

Workgroup 6: Develop collaborative partnerships among primary medical care providers, genetic and/or specialty care providers and health insurers to ensure continuity of medical care for children within a medical home identified with disease by the newborn screening program.