On this webinar, Evan Saulino, MD, PhD, discussed new legislation in Oregon, passed in July 2017, to double, over a five-year period, the amount of money spent by all Oregon payers on primary care. These additional funds will be channeled into primary care alternative payment models. In addition, Dr. Saulino described innovative work by the Oregon Health Authority Patient-Centered Primary Care Home Program (PCPCH).
At the briefing on Capitol Hill, hosted by the Congressional Primary Care Caucus, the Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) unveiled its latest report highlighting new evidence that links the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) and other forms of advanced primary care with improved outcomes, but not in every study examined.
Today’s nurse practitioners play an important role in managing and delivering health care to Americans. Nurse practitioners (NPs) deliver health care to patients in a variety of settings. This presentation provides insight on the approach to patient-centered care by nurse practitioners. It also illustrates the role that NPs can play in our health care system, including a presentation by an NP-owned and operated clinic that provides primary health care to a diverse patient population across the lifespan.
Long before patient-centered care became a centerpiece of health care reform efforts or a media buzz word, Planetree was defining what it means to be patient-centered. With more than three and a half decades of experience listening to patients and partnering with organizations to design and implement patient-centered approaches to care, the Planetree model provides, in concrete and actionable detail, a pathway for:
Partnering more effectively with patients
Engaging family members to improve quality, drive outcomes and foster continuity
Primary care teams, providing comprehensive care within a patient-centered medical home, have the clinical competencies, infrastructure, and relationships necessary to improve oral health and reduce oral health disparities. Yet few primary care practices include oral health as a component of routine medical care.
How can we promote investment in primary care? Which links can be drawn by primary care practices between the community and the medical neighborhood? How can we entice patients, families and even employers to engage in improving care quality? And finally, how can we build an interprofessional health workforce trained and prepared to deliver high quality primary care in team-based settings.
The current fee-for-service model of primary care delivery in the United States is outdated and wreaking havoc on the foundation of our healthcare system. This model will be phased out over the next decade in favor of value-based reimbursement (among other changes). Residency programs, however, are often based on the old model of care and, consequently, are not prepared to train residents for the future models of care. In order to address this deficiency, residency-training collaboratives have been popping up around the country.
Learn how two very different primary care practices approached their transformation to a patient-centered medical home and employed new strategies to improve outcomes for their patients, especially those with diabetes. These practices are among the 52 practices in the Maryland Multi-payer PCMH Pilot (MMPP), which Discern administers for the Maryland Health Care Commission (MHCC).
Sponsored 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.
