WHAT: Briefing on "Benefits of Implementing the PCMH: A Review of Cost & Quality Results, 2012"HOST: Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC)WHEN: Thursday, September 6 at 3 p.m.WHERE: 2168 Rayburn House Office Building (Gold Room), 45 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20515PRESENTERS:Marci Nielsen; Executive Director, Primary Care CollaborativeCarmen Hooker Odom; President, Milbank Memorial FundJustine Handelman; Vice President Legislative and Regulatory Policy, BlueCross BlueShield AssociationSPECIAL INSTUCTIONS: All guests must pass through security in order to enter the Ray
In support of more effective, more affordable, higher quality health care, 500 primary care practices in seven regions have been selected to participate in a new partnership between payers from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), state Medicaid agencies, commercial health plans, self-insured businesses, and primary care providers.
PinnacleHealth is expanding its patient-centered medical home (PCMH) program to triple the existing program at FamilyCare sites throughout Central Pennsylvania. First introduced in 2010 at the Lower Paxton and Marysville FamilyCare offices, the program supports patients as part of the Governor’s Chronic Care Initiative within the PA Department of Health’s Chronic Care and Welfare program. The Community Health Team grew to four nurses in four FamilyCare practices assisting providers to improve the lives of nearly 3,000 patients with chronic illness in 2011.
(WASHINGTON, DC) - The Primary Care Collaborative is delighted to announce the election of two health care experts to its board of directors: Beverley H. Johnson, President & CEO of the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care and Harlan Levine, MD, of WellPoint.
Effort will bring payers and providers together to advance patient-centered primary care
WASHINGTON, DC, April 11, 2012 –The Primary Care Collaborative commends the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for the official launch of the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative, an effort to advance comprehensive, coordinated, patient-centered care.
Starfield championed comprehensive, coordinated, person-centered health care
WASHINGTON, DC, April 3, 2012 – The Primary Care Collaborative will honor one of the true luminaries in patient-centered primary care, Barbara Starfield, MD, MPH.At its April 24th Annual Stakeholder’s Meeting, the first PCPCC Annual Award will be given posthumously to Dr.
Medical home champion sees quest for health system transformation as a mission
WASHINGTON, DC – Paul Grundy, MD, MPH, president of the Primary Care Collaborative and IBM's global director of healthcare transformation, will be honored March 27 as a recipient of the NCQA Health Quality Award.The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) is honoring Grundy as an early and enthusiastic champion of the patient-centered medical home (PCMH). His passion and advocacy have advanced the PCMH, which has been shown to improve care quality and lower the cost of care.
