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PCMH on the Web

Key Organizations

• Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC)
• American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS)
• Center for Advancing Health (CFAH – formerly the Center for the Advancement of Health)
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
• Medicare Medical Home Demonstration (CMS)
• The Commonwealth Fund
• MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation
• National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP)
• National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
• National Partnership for Women and Families
• Qualis Health
• Qualis Health Patient-Centered Medical Home Page
• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Roger C. Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care
• The Urban Institute (www.urban.org)
• WellPoint Foundation

View Grant-funded activities by the organizations above and others.

Practice Information

MedHomeInfo: A resource for physicians and practices that want to participate in the Medicare Medical Home Demonstration (MMHD). This resource is being provided though a grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation to the Roger C. Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Consumer and Patient Information

• Introduction to the Patient-Centered Medical Home: A multimedia program that was developed to help explain this innovative model of healthcare to consumers. The program is the result of a collaboration between the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative and Emmi Solutions®.
• Merck Patient Education Brochure and Checklist: These resources, developed for the PCPCC by Merck in consultation with ACP and other organizations, are intended to help health care professionals communicate with patients about the Patient-Centered Medical Home approach.
• Primary Care: A Miracle of Modern Medicine: This brochure is a collaboration between Thomas Bodenheimer at the Center for Excellence in Primary Care at the Department of Family and Community Medicine at University of California, San Francisco; and the John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital.
• National Partnership for Women and Families Medical Home Principles: A broad coalition of more than 25 of the nation's leading consumer, labor, and health care advocacy groups developed a set of principles designed to help health care providers, lawmakers, employers, and health plans consider consumer interests as they develop delivery system reforms such as the medical home.
• Supporting Patient Engagement in the Patient-Centered Medical Home: White paper on patient engagement in the PCMH produced by the Center for the Advancement of Health. It includes a “Short Guide for Patients” and a sample “Patient-Clinician PACT”.
• Creating a Patient Guide for a “Medical Home” Physician Practice: A resource by the Center for the Advancement of Health to assist medical home practices with creating a simple guide for their patients. This guide will allow the consumer to have a greater understanding of the services offered and how they can benefit from them.

Resources from ACP

There are several resources to assist practices with transitioning to the Patient-Centered Medical Home model available from ACP, as well as from organizations with which ACP is partnering:

• ACP: Running a Practice – A central source of information on practice management, quality improvement, medical lab evaluation, health information technology, ethics and professionalism, and patient care and education.

• ACP: Diabetes Portal – Free tools, resources, and research supporting diabetes care for both patients and clinicians.

• ABMS: Improving Performance in Practice (www.abms.org) – Improving Performance in Practice (IPIP) is a state-based, nationally led quality improvement initiative funded in large part by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Its origins are in collaboration among the primary care specialty societies to help physicians improve care in the office practice setting. ACP is a full partner in this initiative.

In addition, ACP is in the process of developing new types of resources to better assist our members.

Purchaser Information

PCPCC: PCMH Purchaser Guide (www.pcpcc.net) - The Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC), a coalition representing the country's national business leaders, consumer groups, organizations representing primary care physicians and other health care stakeholders, released its Purchaser Guide to the patient-centered medical home. The Purchaser Guide is a handbook for understanding the medical home model and taking action to advance its implementation. The guide provides supporting research, action steps, contracting language, and sample RFI language for employers/purchasers.

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