<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
The PCPCC recently launched an initiative sponsored by our Education & Training Task Force: to build a rich collection of primary care residency and health professional training programs that incorporate advanced practices in primary care and the patient-centered medical home.We encourage you or your colleagues to submit profiles of existing residency and health professionals training models and best practices that represent a range of communities, institutions, geographic locations, and patient populations.
Date/Time: Thursday, February 14th, 2013; 12:00PM ETRegister: Click here.Speaker: Bill Warning, MD, FAAFP, Program Director, Crozer-Keystone Family Medicine (Springfield, PA)Co-Chair, PCPCC Education & Training Task ForceSponsored by the PCPCC’s Education and Training Task Force, Dr. William Warning, Program Director at Crozer-Keystone Family Medicine and a member of the Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians (PAFP) will include a presentation about the PAFP’s Patient-Centered Medical Home Collaborative.
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.
The United States will need an additional 52,000 primary care doctors to cope with population growth, newly insured people and an aging population, a group of researchers has forecast. The researchers -- from several institutions including Georgetown University and the Robert Graham Center, Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, Washington, D.C. – looked at several factors to come up with their total.
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.
The Time Out for Genetics webinar, "Top 10 Genetics Resources for Pediatric Primary Care Providers" took place on Thursday, October 25 from 12-12:30pm Central. The webinar aims to provide an overview of the current resources available to primary care providers.
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.
