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 PCMH Consulting Fact Sheet Medicaid & the Patient-Centered Medical Home

Learn more about our Safety Net Medical Home Initiative Project

Updates

New PCMH Analysis Service OfferedQualis Health recommends that practices use the PCMH-A, which is a free self-assessment tool that is available for unrestricted use. We then offer analysis and comparative reporting of the PCMH-A to support practices in making their results actionable. Learn more about our PCMH analysis and reporting services, or order a custom data report.

REACH Healthcare Foundation Partners with Qualis HealthQualis Health is providing on-site consultation, practice coaching and training on various PCMH topics, including enhanced access, care coordination and patient-centeredness, to nine safety net clinics in the Kansas City metropolitan area on behalf of the REACH Healthcare Foundation. Learn more about the REACH Foundation's Medical Home Initiative.


Safety Net Medical Home Initiative

Neighborcare Presents Optimizing the Role of the Front Desk Staff In a December 15 webinar, Katie Bell and Prathiba Pinnamaneni of Seattle’s Neighborcare Health presented a webinar for the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative. In it, they discussed why and how their clinics organized and optimized the role of the front desk staff. View the webinar online or download the slides; download the Neighborcare Tasking Guidelines.

Using Data for Quality Improvement in Livingston, Montana Community Health Partners' CEO Lander Cooney, MS and Data Analyst Linda Hults recently shared how their organization is using data for quality improvement. Watch the Using Data for Quality Improvement presentation online or download the slides.