AAAHC wants your input on revised Standards for 2013For 2013, we’re proposing significant changes to the AAAHC Accreditation Handbook and the Medical Home On-site Certification Handbook.We’ve substantially rebuilt our core chapters—those that apply to all ambulatory health care organizations—with an eye toward simplifying language, clarifying intent, and eliminating redundancies.
Medical Homes: High Performance Medical Home Teams Exploring Care Coordination and Transitions of Care in the Patient Centered Health Care Home (PCHCH), Medical Neighborhood and ACO Models WorkshopThursday, October 11, 2012 (2pm - 5pm US/Pacific)San Francisco, CA 94102 Join us for this cutting-edge workshop as we explore the medical home integration of care managers and the medical home teams. This session is specially designed for primary care teams, coaches and case managers to understand the vital role they will play in healthcare reform.
Medical Homes: High Performance Medical Home Teams Exploring Care Coordination and Transitions of Care in the Patient Centered Health Care Home (PCHCH), Medical Neighborhood and ACO Models WorkshopThursday, October 11, 2012 (2pm - 5pm US/Pacific)San Francisco, CA 94102 Join us for this cutting-edge workshop as we explore the medical home integration of care managers and the medical home teams. This session is specially designed for primary care teams, coaches and case managers to understand the vital role they will play in healthcare reform.
October Workshops at URAC 2012 Quality Summit & Best Practice Awards October 8: URAC Patient Centered Health Care Home Auditor Certification WorkshopOctober 9: URAC Patient Centered Health Care Home Practice Achievement WorkshopOctober 9: URAC Patient Centered Health Care Home Auditor Certification: Practice Achievement WorkshopOctober 11: Global Diabetes Management Mini SummitOctober 11: Health Insurance Exchange Quality CampOctober 11: Medical Homes: High Performance Medical Home Teams Exploring Care Coordination and Transitions of Care in the Patient Centered Health Care Home (PCHCH)
URAC Patient Centered Health Care Home Practice Achievement ProgramThursday, September 27, 2012 (2pm - 3pm US/Eastern)Webinar - Complimentary This education workshop is offered to health management organizations (HMO), health plans and medical home pilots desiring to provide independent PCHCH practice assessment audits of health care practices. It is designed to review the URAC PCHCH Auditor Certification Standards. These standards include the Core and HIPAA standards, which address several key organizational management functions that are important for any health care organization.
Exchange Health Plan Management Functions: URAC Accreditation & Quality MeasuresTuesday, September 25, 2012 (2pm - 3pm US/Eastern)Webinar - Complimentary FOCUSIn this complimentary webinar, URAC will present an overview of its accreditation process and quality measures as they relate to Qualified Health Plans that participate on Health Insurance Exchanges, including how URAC information may be utilized by state insurance regulators and state exchanges.SUMMARYHealth Plan Management includes functions for verifying accreditation and quality measures for Qualified Health Plans.
URAC Patient Centered Health Care Home (PCHCH) programs are designed to educate and guide health care practices in transforming into a medical home. The PCHCH Practice Achievement Program focuses on evaluating practices on Key Joint Principles of the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) including access, coordination, quality and patient centeredness.
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.
