Innovations
Community-Based Oncology Practice Redesigns Processes Based on Patient-Centered Medical Home Model To Enhance Access, Improve Quality, and Reduce Costs 2/6/2013
A community-based oncology practice's patient-centered medical home model features oncology-specific information technology, a standardized assessment, multidisciplinary care plan, patient navigators, telephone triage line, patient education and engagement, and ongoing performance monitoring, leading to improvements in access, quality, and costs.
Policy
Statewide Medical Home Program for Low-Income Pregnant Women Enhances Access to Comprehensive Prenatal Care and Case Management, Improves Outcomes 1/30/2013
A State-based, public–private partnership adapted its successful primary care medical home model to serve pregnant Medicaid beneficiaries, leading to enhanced access to comprehensive prenatal care (including intensive case management for high-risk pregnancies), better adherence to evidence-based care standards, and reductions in low–birth weight babies and rate of primary Cesarean sections.
Pediatric Center Offers Coordinated, Culturally Appropriate Services, Increasing Access to Comprehensive Care for Low-Income Children With Special Health Care Needs 1/29/2013
A pediatric center provides comprehensive, coordinated services within a primary care medical home for low-income and immigrant children with special health care needs.
Mobile Clinic Provides Comprehensive Medical Home for Homeless and At-Risk Youth, Reducing Emergency Department Visits and Increasing Followup Care 1/23/2013
A mobile health clinic provides a medical home to homeless and other at-risk youth, leading to fewer emergency department visits, more follow up care, and high levels of satisfaction.
Public-Private Partnership Supports Medical Homes in Managing Medicaid Enrollees via Disease/Case Management and Other Initiatives, Leading to Higher Quality and Significant Cost Savings 1/23/2013
A state-based, public–private partnership supports medical homes in managing the care of Medicaid managed care enrollees, leading to higher quality and significant reductions in utilization and costs.
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QualityTools
A Collaborative Partnership: Resources to Help Consumers Thrive in the Medical Home 1/30/2013
This guide for health care organizations and stakeholders provides resources to improve consumer participation to help design and inform the needed patient focus of the patient-centered medical home.
Patient-Centered Medical Home 1/30/2013
This Web site from the American Academy of Family Physicians provides step-by-step project plans and tools to build a patient-centered medical home.
Systems of Care/Patient-Centered Medical Home Initiative: Primary Care–Specialty Care Compact 1/30/2013
The purpose of the compact is to improve care and build and sustain trusted medical neighborhoods through a defined communication protocol.
The Patient-Centered Medical Home and Specialty Physicians 1/30/2013
This Web page from the American College of Physicians provides resources to further develop the Patient-Centered Medical Home model to integrate into specialty and subspecialty practices.
The Patient-Centered Medical Home: A Resource Guide for Integrating Comprehensive Medication Management to Optimize Patient Outcomes (Second Edition) 9/12/2012
This guide for payers, plans, provider groups, patient advocacy groups, and all medication therapy management service providers discusses the rationale for including comprehensive medication management services in integrated patient-centered care.
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