An essential element of the primary care medical home is ensuring that providers take a ‘whole-person’ approach to care that meets each patient’s physical and mental health care needs, including prevention, wellness, acute and chronic care. This requires building a team of care providers around a patient that may include physicians, mental health, advanced practice nurses, pharmacists, nutritionists, care coordinators, and social workers.
Sponsored by the PCPCC’s Education and Training Task Force, Dr. William Warning, Program Director at Crozer-Keystone Family Medicine and a member of the Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians (PAFP) will include a presentation about the PAFP’s Patient-Centered Medical Home Collaborative.
Sponsored by PCPCC's Stakeholder Center for Employer & Purchaser Engagement, this webinar explored the relationship between specialists and primary care physicians in an accountable, coordinated care environment, including medical homes and Accountable Care Organizations (ACO).
The PCPCC Patients, Families, and Consumers Stakeholder Center hosted a webinar featuring Brad Thompson, MA, LPC-S. Brad talks about his experience as the parent of a child with special health care needs, and that experience helped shape a professional role at his child's pediatric primary care practice. Since 2007, Brad has worked with Shari Medford, MD, a pediatrician in Amarillo, Texas, that supports families of children with special healthcare needs in areas beyond health care services to greatly improve the family’s experience. Brad talks about how his work has improved Dr.
The health care community is becoming increasingly attentive to customizing the medical home model for patient groups with distinct needs. One such population is adolescents (ages 12 to 21); a group with unique health needs, service use patterns, and care experiences. This webinar will help you learn more about specific models of adolescent health care, perspectives from adolescents regarding the importance of primary care, and new recommendations for improving the effectiveness of a medical home for adolescent patients.
Depression screening is an important element of behavioral health integration in the patient-centered medical home. In this webinar we learned more about how this process has been successfully implemented and managed across a spectrum of patient populations - from teens to adults to medicare-eligibles, brought to you by the PCPCC Behavioral Health Special Interest Group. Featured speakers will include Jennifer Bowdoin, MS, Senior Associate, Project Management, Rhode Island Quality Institute and Gary Mirkin, MD, CEO of Allied Pediatrics of New York, PLLC.
The PCPCC is delighted to bring together a distinguished panel of speakers from CMS, ONC and NCQA to discuss various aspects of health information technology and the patient-centered medical home. Please join us for a free and informative webinar from 2:00-3:30pm ET on Tuesday, September 11, entitled "Advancing Primary Care through Health Information Technology".
The webinar features Amanda Brummel, PharmD - Director, Ambulatory Clinical Pharmacy Services, Fairview Pharmacy Services and will be moderated by Terry McInnis, MD, MPH - President, Blue Thorn, Inc. and Co-lead of the Medication Management Taskforce and Ed Webb, ACCP Associate Executive Director and Co-lead of the PCPCC Medication Management Taskforce. A 30-minute Question and Answer session will follow the presentations.Fairview Pharmacy Services, LLC, has developed a very successful practice model of pharmaceutical care.
In this webinar, we explore the definition of the care team and care coordination as well as the key elements of care coordination within the PCMH. We will also talk about the patient’s perspective by reviewing Christine Bechtel’s research on patients and the delivery system as a whole – its challenges and potential solutions – including care coordination and the medical home.
A healthy primary care system is essential to our nation’s health system, but primary care practice is at a crossroads. Burnout is rampant, fewer physicians are choosing the specialty, and many existing primary care doctors are leaving it. Physicians Chris Sinsky and Tom Sinsky and their colleagues visited more than 20 primary care practices that have adopted innovations to enhance the job satisfaction of physicians, other clinicians and staff while also improving the quality of care and the patient experience.
