A visit to your primary care physician often means long waits in exchange for fleeting face-time with a doctor. But a growing trend in the medical field aims to change that and a lot more. At Advanced Primary Care in Jamaica Plain, a routine check-up could lead to a one-on-one meeting with a pharmacist or social worker. That's because it isn’t a typical doctor’s office. It’s a medical home.
<p>Mastering Pediatric Care in the Age of Healthcare Reform: Thriving in a Patient-Centered ModelWhat Happens after the Behavioral Health Screening in an Accountable Care World?We are pleased to invite your participation in a skills training program, that evidence shows will enhance your ability to evaluate and manage emotional and psychosocial problems commonly seen in pediatric practice with children, adolescents and their families. Pediatricians, family physicians, other physicians who care for children, and pediatric nurse practitioners are invited to attend twelve month
Thursday, January 10, 201311AM - 12PM ESTClick here to register.In place of our weekly Thursday call, the PCPCC Patients, Families, and Consumers Stakeholder Center will host a webinar featuring Brad Thompson, MA, LPC-S. Brad will talk about his experience as the parent of a child with special health care needs, and that experience helped shape a professional role at his child's pediatric primary care practice.
Click here to register.Date: Tuesday, December 11th, 2012,Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST DescriptionThe health care community is becoming increasingly attentive to customizing the medical home model for patient groups with distinct needs. One such population is adolescents (ages 12 to 21); a group with unique health needs, service use patterns, and care experiences.
Through Assuring Better Child Health and Development (ABCD) III, Arkansas, Illinois, Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Oregon have developed and tested models to improve care coordination for children with or at risk of developmental delay. The medical home has been a key mechanism in their improvement efforts. This brief draws from these states’ experiences to outline opportunities and lessons for state policy makers to consider in order to strengthen medical home initiatives by explicitly addressing the needs of children.
It was another reminder that patients lie at the heart of the patient-centered medical home (PCMH), a theme considered so important that the one-day meeting devoted an entire segment to it. The need to engage patients and their families in making decisions about their health care emerged as a unifying theme that tied together disparate parts of the most recent Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) conference in Chicago on Oct. 25.
The PCPCC has partnered with the Jefferson School of Population Health as a Sponsor of the Fifth Medical Home Summit on March 13-15, 2013 in Philadelphia.
Behavioral Health Integration in the Medical Home - Screening for DepressionThursday, November 15th, 2012 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM ESTREGISTER FOR FREE HEREDepression screening is an important element of behavioral health integration in the patient-centered medical home. Learn more about how this process has been successfully implemented and managed across a spectrum of patient populations - from teens to adults to medicare-eligibles - in this free and informative webinar from 1:00-2:30pm on Thursday, November 15, brought to you by the PCPCC Behavioral Health Special Interest Group.
November 13 | WebinarAbout the ProgramNCQA developed the Distinction in Patient Experience Reporting for the PCMH 2011 Standards to help practices capture feedback through the new CAHPS PCMH Survey. The survey assesses patient access, communication, coordination, whole person care/self-care and management support. Join us for a thorough review of CAHPS PCMH Survey. Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to: 1. Describe why patient experience is measured 2. Explain why an organization should use CAHPS PCMH 3. Identify the benefits of using CAHPS PCMH 4.
URAC Education WorkshopJanuary 30-31, 2013 Amelia Island, FLThis education workshop is offered to health management organizations (HMO), health plans and medical home pilots desiring to provide independent PCHCH practice assessment audits of health care practices. It is designed to review the URAC PCHCH Auditor Certification Standards. These standards include the Core and HIPAA standards, which address several key organizational management functions that are important for any health care organization.
