Press Room

• New National Initiative To Transform Safety-Net Clinics Into Medical Homes In Five States
  May 6, 2009
  The Commonwealth Fund, in collaboration with eight co-funders, is launching a national Safety Net Medical Home Initiative, which will provide $6 million dollars over four years to help 68 community health centers in five states transform into patient-centered medical homes.
• Qualis Health to Lead Commonwealth Fund National Medical Home Initiative for Safety Net Clinics
  May 27, 2008
  Qualis Health will lead a groundbreaking five-year initiative to support 50 safety-net clinics in achieving high performance through transformation to the patient-centered medical home model of healthcare delivery.

News & Articles

• Pittsburgh Clinics Also Test Patient Care Model
  January 6, 2010
  Pittsburgh is among five areas nationally in which designated primary care safety net clinics are participating in a four-year initiative to become high-performing, patient-centered medical homes.
• Grant Funds Expansion of 'Medical Home' Biz Model
  November 6, 2009
  The grant providers hope the team-oriented “medical homes” model will lower health care costs by keeping patients healthier and by making primary care more satisfying for physicians.
  
• Patient-Centered Care Goal of New State Program
  September 2009
  Fourteen Massachusetts Community Health Centers will be converted into Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMHs) over the next four years.
  
• Health Centers Use Teamwork in Patient Care
  August 2, 2009
  State officials recently announced that Massachusetts will receive $500,000 in grant money to support the transformation of 14 community health centers into “patient-centered medical homes.’’
• Colorado Selected to Lead Health Care Improvement Effort
  July 20, 2009
  As health care reform whirls around the national stage this summer, 15 community clinics in Colorado are already getting started on a pilot project to improve the system.
• Revere Health Center Gets Primary Care Help
  June 15, 2009
  Half a million dollars in state health care money will assist Revere Health Center and 13 other centers in providing direct primary care to their patients.
• Joseph M. Smith Center Among Grant Recipients
  June 5, 2009
  The Patrick Administration announced today that Massachusetts will receive $500,000 in grant funding to support the transformation of 14 community health centers, including Joseph M. Smith Community Health Center in Waltham and Allston, into patient-centered medical homes over a 4-year period.
• Hospitals Participate in National Program
  May 28, 2009
  St. Mary’s and Clearwater Valley Hospitals and Clinics will participate in a national initiative to transition primary care clinics into Patient Centered Medical Homes. CVHC and SMHC are two of the 13 Idaho partner clinics included in the four year, $6 million national program.
• Idaho Primary Care Association Receives Grant to Help Develop Medical Homes
  May 13, 2009
  The Primary Care Association will get $500,000 over the course of the four-year initiative to work with 13 Idaho primary-care clinics to facilitate their transformation into patient-centered medical homes.
• New National Initiative to Transform Safety-Net Clinics into Medical Homes in 5 States
  May 7, 2009
  The Commonwealth Fund, in collaboration with eight co-funders, is launching a national Safety Net Medical Home Initiative, which will provide $6 million dollars over four years to help 68 community health centers in five states transform into patient-centered medical homes.
• "There's No Place Like (a Medical) Home"
  October 2008
  The Safety Net Medical Home Initiative is featured in the October/November 2008 issue of Case in Point, the official magazine of the Case Management Society of America.