Medical Home is an approach to providing comprehensive primary care to adults, youth and children. The Medical Home will broaden access to primary care, while enhancing care coordination.
AACH Interest Group on the Patient Centered Medical Home
AACH members are invited to join the AACH Patient Centered Medical Home Interest Group by contacting Howard Beckman, MD, FAACH at 585-242-9445 or hbeckman@ripa.org or Tony Suchman, MD, FAACH at asuchman@rchcweb.com or 585-271-4233. There is a need for program development in leadership and team building training for practitioners AND staff.
Results of AAFP Demonstration Project
The AACH focus on personal awareness and improved leadership and team building skills was recently reinforced by an important initial summary of the results of the AAFP National Demonstration Project. The evaluation team made the following observations about attempts to transform traditional practices into medical homes.*
AACH Board approved joining the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative as a member organization. As part of its commitment to improving the quality of partnerships between practitioners, patients and healthcare teams, AACH believes that redesign of primary care practice, to allow increasing methods of communication and improved coordination of care, is an essential component of an improved healthcare system.
The schedule for the PCPCC organizational call and the calls for the Centers that form the basis of the work of the organization can be found here.
This guide is published by the PCPCC. It describes the kind of IT that is needed to support the functions of a medical home. The second chapter specifically addresses functions that help patients participate more actively.
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