Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Author: Kameron Matthews, MD, JD, FAAFP
Kameron Matthews MD, JD is a board-certified family physician and currently serves as Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Community Care at the Veterans Health Administration in Washington DC. She earned her medical degree from Johns Hopkins University and her law degree from the University of Chicago.
Is the PCMH Movement the Solution?
The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) has been lauded as an innovative approach to improvements in the healthcare system that include reducing cost of care, improving quality of care and the patient experience, and reducing instability in the primary care workforce. Continue Reading …
Caring for the Whole Community
Health centers have been lauded for providing to a large portion of the nation’s underserved population. In a community based primary care setting, health center patients receive culturally aware and focused care that is specifically directed by the patients themselves. Continue Reading …
Why Physician Assistants don’t do Primary Care
As increasing proportions of the population now have coverage under the Affordable Care Act, the primary care physician shortage has become increasingly concerning. Concepts such as team-based care and value-based performance require comprehensive services and management of patient outcomes. Physician Continue Reading …
PCMH falls flat in New Orleans
With the expansion of Medicaid provided by the Affordable Care Act, should be analyzed for their potential positive impact on Medicaid populations. A PCMH is a team-based health care delivery model led by a primary care physician that emphasizes specific Continue Reading …
Smaller is Better
More than 3.9 million “ambulatory care-sensitive” admissions of adults were made to US hospitals in 2010, with as much as 40% of them being preventable. But which primary care practices are best at preventing these kind of avoidable hospitalizations? Researchers Continue Reading …