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• Pittsburgh Clinics Also Test Patient Care Model
  January 6, 2010 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  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 - Fifty Plus Advocate (Boston Metro Edition)
  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 - The Boston Globe
  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 - Berthoud Recorder
  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 - The Daily Item of Lynn
  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 Daily News Tribune
  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 - Cottonwood Chronicle
  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 - Idaho Statesman
  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 - Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
  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 - Case in Point
  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.
  
  

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The Commonwealth Fund Announcements

• About the Patient-Centered Primary Care Initiative
• Transforming Safety-Net Clinics into Patient-Centered Medical Homes, Phase 1 Private/Action
  
  

Press Releases

• 6/5/09 - Massachusetts Will Receive $500,000 to Support Patient-Centered Medical Homes
  The Patrick Administration announced today that Massachusetts will receive $500,000 in grant funding to support the transformation of 14 Community Health Centers across the Commonwealth into patient-centered medical homes over a four-year period.
  
• 5/29/09 - Oregon Health Care Clinics Awarded Grant to Expand "Patient-Centered Medical Homes"
  The grant will support health centers that serve the vulnerable and disadvantaged in achieving high performance through a patient-centered medical home model of delivery.
  
• 5/12/09 - Idaho Primary Care Association Receives Commonwealth Fund Grant to Transform Safety-Net Clinics into Patient-Centered Medical Homes
  IPCA will receive $500,000 over the course of the four-year initiative to work with 13 Idaho safety-net primary care clinics to facilitate their transformation into Patient-Centered Medical Homes.
  
• 5/6/09 - Colorado Efforts to Accelerate to Support Medical Home Transformation in Safety Net Clinics
  Colorado is one of five states selected for the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative, a four-year initiative to work with existing safety net clinics and community stakeholders to reach high levels of quality, efficiency and patient experience.
  
• 5/6/09 - New National Initiative To Transform Safety-Net Clinics Into Medical Homes In Five States
  The Colorado Community Health Network, the Idaho Primary Care Association, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services & Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, the Oregon Primary Care Association & CareOregon, and the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative were selected from a pool of 42 applicants as Regional Coordinating Centers (RCCs) for the Initiative.
  
• 5/27/08 - Qualis Health to Lead Commonwealth Fund National Medical Home Initiative for Safety Net Clinics
  Qualis Health, a Seattle-based nonprofit quality improvement organization, 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.
  
  

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