As patient-centered medical homes continue to offer the promise of improved patient outcomes, innovators are looking for better ways to leverage the medical neighborhood and coordinate care across settings. During this webinar, participants will hear from leading experts about managing chronically ill populations, including the frail elderly, and engage in discussions about the role of home health care in partnership with the PCMH.
As the incredible work of the Office of the National Coordinator’s (ONC) national Beacon Community Program wraps up this fall, we look forward to welcoming Janhavi Kirtane from the ONC, and representatives from Beacon communities around the country to share their lessons learned and how their achievements will shape future directions and community collaborations.
Patients, families and consumer advocates are the great untapped resource in our quest to achieve the Triple Aim of better health, better care and lower costs. Only patients and their families/caregivers live at the intersection of all aspects of the health care system, giving them unique experiences and insights to help improve care quality and outcomes while reducing health care costs.
WellSpan Health, a community-owned not-for-profit health system and a leader in population health management, knows what it takes to align health care services with the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH). WellSpan's leadership has committed to a complete re-design of care team roles, not just in primary care, but throughout the hospital, specialty practices and community-based services. Their innovative model builds on the trusted relationship between patients and their primary care team to ensure high-quality, coordinated care, based on the needs of the patient and family.
Medical home implementation and innovation at the state level plays an important role in improving health care quality while reducing costs. Several states are leading the nation in efforts to study and implement integrative primary care, and are showing impressive improvements in cost and quality outcomes. This month's webinar will provide an overview of the innovative work being done in participating Multi-Payer Advanced Primary Care Practices across the country and will highlight recent results from Independence Blue Cross' medical home model in Pennsylvania.
This month, Edwin B. Fisher, Global Director of Peers for Progress, and Leticia Ibarra, Director of Programs for Clinicas de Salud del Pueblo, Inc. join us for a discussion focused on how peer support can enhance primary care, chronic disease management, behavioral health and more.
Throughout the month of January, PCPCC programs will focus on the findings from our forthcoming Annual Report (public release scheduled for January 13th). This year the PCPCC Annual Report, supported by the Milbank Memorial Fund, presents a showcase of the year's 20 peer-reviewed and industry-generated PCMH evaluations that indicate the patient-centered medical home's impact on cost, quality, and population health outcomes.
On the last Thursday of each month, the PCPCC hosts its National Monthly Briefing, a public teleconference where members, partners, and medical home advocates can join the conversation to learn more about trends, innovations, partnerships, and advancements in the medical home sector. The calls often feature a presentation from one or more experts in the primary care and medical home disciplines to discuss any research or best practices the areas of care delivery transformation, payment reform, patient engagement, and employee/purchaser benefit design.
