The Safety Net Medical Home Initiative

Change Concepts

Engaged Leadership
  • Engaged LeadershipProvide visible and sustained leadership to lead overall culture change as well as specific strategies to improve quality and spread and sustain change.
  • Establish and support a QI team that meets regularly and guides the effort.
  • Ensure that providers and other care team members have protected time to conduct activities beyond direct patient care that are consistent with the medical home model.
  • Build the practice’s values on creating a medical home for patients into staff hiring and training processes.

Engaged Leadership Resources
  • Engaged Leadership (May 27, 2010)
    Moderator: Sharon Eloranta, MD, Qualis Health
    Speakers: Anna Roth from Contra Costa Regional Medical Center (Martinez, CA), Carolyn Shepherd from Clinica Family Health Services (Lafayette, CO), Stephen Weeg from Health West (Pocatello, ID) and Andrea Fox from Squirrel Hill Health Center (Pittsburgh, PA).
    Engaged Leadership 5-27-10 Printable slides