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Category: Patient-Centered Medical Home
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 …
Medical Homes Improve Outcomes for Underserved
Healthcare finance and delivery policies are shifting from volume to value, placing the burden on physicians, hospitals, and administrators to identify and implement models that improve quality while also reducing cost. New evidence supports expanding the (PCMH) to achieve better Continue Reading …
Delivery System Reforms: Delivering Value?
Restructuring health care delivery to reduce costs and improve quality is a fundamental part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and a response to the long history of high domestic healthcare spending with suboptimal outcomes. In fact, the ACA mandated Continue Reading …
Primary Care is Still the Answer
Though the has been praised as the ultimate strategy in keeping patients out of emergency departments and hospitals, so far the actual results have been mixed. A new study out of California, however, provides more positive evidence for the benefits Continue Reading …