Primary care plays a critical role in a patient’s overall health. However, outside of clinical care people are left on their own to manage complex health behaviors needed to live healthily. That’s where peer support comes in!
Primary Care Progress aggregated information and resources that can help primary care providers and practices promote and integrate peer support. The material is organized into the following sections:
OBJECTIVES: Although many attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) care models have been studied, few have demonstrated individual-level symptom improvement. We sought to test whether complementing basic collaborative care with interventions that address common reasons for symptom persistence improves outcomes for children with inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity.
CONTEXT: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's (PPACA) emphasis on community-based initiatives affords a unique opportunity to disseminate and scale up evidence-based community health worker (CHW) models that integrate CHWs within health care delivery teams and programs. Community health workers have unique access and local knowledge that can inform program development and evaluation, improve service delivery and care coordination, and expand health care access.
The publication highlights how seven programs from California, Illinois, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia train a variety of health care professionals to work together as teams in patient-centered medical homes.
One way to begin the process of advancing patient centered care is by involving patients and families in the design of care. At San Francisco General’s Family Health Center we do this with the help of the Patient Advisory Boards (PAB).
The purpose of a Patient Advisory Board is for patients to provide their unique and invaluable perspective to clinic management, staff, and providers about how to make improvements, with the goal of better serving all clinic patients.
The Health Federation of Philadelphia (HFP), with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is pleased to announce the release of a new interactive tool, The Community Resilience Cookbook. The Cookbook is a companion to the proceedings of the first National Collaborative on Adversity and Resilience (NCAR), which were released by HFP and RWJF in June, 2014.
Advances in medicine promise better health outcomes while simultaneously conferringadditional responsibilities on patients and caregivers. New surgical procedures mean we come home from the hospital quicker but sicker and must attend to symptom management, medications, wound care, rehabilitation, and mobility, all of which were previously performed by professionals.
