The Patient-Centered Medical Home Project

A New Approach to Patient CareThe Patient-Centered Medical Home

Patient being treated in a medical home settingThe patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is an approach to providing comprehensive primary care for children, youth and adults in a healthcare setting that facilitates partnerships between individual patients, their personal clinicians, and, when appropriate, the patient’s family.

PCMH practices have a whole person orientation, and patients have a continuous relationship with a personal clinician. Care is integrated and coordinated, and quality and safety are hallmarks. Enhanced access is made possible by system advances and new communication options.

Download our Medical Home Fact Sheet Medicaid & the Patient-Centered Medical Home

Learn more about our Safety Net Medical Home Initiative Project

Updates

New Job Opening
Qualis Health is in search of a patient-centered medical home QI Consultant to provide technical assistance on a variety of clinic operations redesign issues. Read the full posting here.

New Webinar Available Online
The Optimizing Your Care Team in the Medical Home webinar presented by Catherine Tantau, BSN, MPA of Tantau & Associates has been posted online. View the webinar.


Safety Net Medical Home Initiative

SNMHI Issue Brief Released by The Commonwealth Fund
The Commonwealth Fund has formally released the 2009 Safety Net Medical Home Initiative Issue Brief, Providing Underserved Patients with Medical Homes: Assessing the Readiness of Safety-Net Heath Centers, authored by Katie Coleman, MSPH and Kathryn Phillips, MPH. Read the Issue Brief.
Regional Coordinating Center Finalists Selected Five (5) Regional Coordinating Centers were selected to become a part of the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative: