What is patient- and family-centered care? Why does it matter? How does it fit with our primary care or ambulatory practice’s overall mission? And finally, what can our clinic do to advance the practice of patient- and family-centered care? Where do we start?Today, leaders, clinicians, staff, patients, and families nationwide are asking these questions. The purpose of this document is to provide some answers.
With support from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative (TCPI) is designed to assist more than 140,000 clinician practices over the next four years (2015-2019) through nationwide, collaborative, and peer-based learning networks that facilitate large-scale practice transformation.
There is consensus that patients need to be engaged with their care, but how to do this in a primary care setting remains unclear. This case study demonstrates Patient Advisory Council engagement with the operations of a patient-centered medical home.
Background Patient and family engagement (PFE) in healthcare is an important element of the transforming healthcare system; however, the prevalence of various PFE practices in the USA is not known.
Objective We report on a survey of hospitals in the USA regarding their PFE practices during 2013–2014.
This year’s Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) Annual Review of the Evidence summarizes new results from primary care patient-centered medical home (PCMH) initiatives published from September 2013 through November 2014 (since the publication of the previous Annual Review). Selected cost and utilization outcomes from a combination of peer-reviewed studies, state program evaluations, and industry publications are aggregated to present an overview of PCMH and primary care innovations happening across the country.
The purpose of this overview is to inform you about the Patient-Centered Medical Home or PCMH. This overview will tell you what PCMH is, how it has been used in rural areas, and what we know about how it works. There will be special attention given to the “patient-centered” part of PCMH.
