Resource Links
These are links to resources our colleagues / partners have found most helpful in informing, guiding and developing their medical home development.
The websites listed below offer references and resources for children, youth, adults, families, physicians and other health care providers in support of raising children, parenting, caring for oneself or a loved one, and providing comprehensive coordinated primary care.
State
- Crotched Mountain Foundation and Rehabilitation Center
Crotched Mountain offers a full range of education, clinical, rehabilitation and residential support services for children and adults with disabilities from New Hampshire, the rest of New England and New York at its rehabilitation center in Greenfield, NH and in many community locations. Crotched Mountain is dedicated to serving individuals with disabilities and their families, embracing personal choice and development, and building communities of mutual support. - Family-to-Family Health Information Centers (F2F HICs) are non-profit organizations that help families of children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) and the professionals who serve them. Family-to-Family Health Information Centers are in a unique position to help because they are typically staffed and run by parents. These staff understands the issues that families face and provide advice, offer a multitude of resources, and tap into a network of other families and professionals for support and information.
- New Hampshire Citizens Health Initiative –Medical Home Project
The New Hampshire Citizens Health Initiative Multi-Stakeholder Medical Home Pilot represents a collaboration among the Initiative medical home workgroup, the Center for Medical Home Improvement and the four private New Hampshire Health Plans: Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, CIGNA, Anthem, and MVP Healthcare as well as NH Medicaid. The goal of the pilot is to value, prescribe and reward medical care that is tightly coordinated and of superior quality and efficiency. - New Hampshire Family Voices
NH Family Voices works to achieve family-centered care for all children and youth with special health care needs and/or disabilities. Through their national network, they provide families with tools to make informed decisions, advocate for improved public and private policies, build partnerships among professionals and families, and serve as a trusted resource on health care. - 2-1-1 New Hampshire 1-866-444-4211 (NH)
2-1-1 provides callers with information about and referrals to human services for every day needs and in times of crisis. - Service Link Resource Center 1-866-634-9412 (NH)
ServiceLink is a statewide network of locally administered community-based resources for seniors, adults with disabilities and their families. ServiceLink is a free information, referral, and assistance, with local offices in 13 communities and with many satellite offices throughout New Hampshire. ServiceLink answers questions and connects users to the appropriate services that support healthy and independent living. - Special Medical Services (SMS)
Special Medical Services (SMS) helps New Hampshire families obtain specialty health care services for their eligible children and health information and support services for themselves. Eligibility for services is based on a family annual gross income of up to 185% of the Federal Poverty Level Guidelines and the need of the child. An application package is available by contacting 1-800-852-3345 ext. 4488.
National
- National Center for Medical Home Implementation
The National Center for Medical Home Implementation is a cooperative agreement between the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). The National Center works to ensure that all children and youth, including children with special needs, have access to a medical home by providing medical home resources, technical assistance, and support to physicians, families, and other medical and non-medical providers who care for children. - Children and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative
National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs Data Resource Center
The Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI) developed and maintains a number of quality measurement tools and strategies that assess the quality of care provided to children and young adults. CAHMI created the CAHMI or CSHCN screener providing a non-categorical tool for identifying children with special health care needs. The National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs Data Resource Center provides user-friendly access to national and state-level results of the National Survey. - Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health
The Data Resource Center—funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration—is partnering with the American Academy of Pediatrics to help state and family leaders quickly access data on how children and youth in each state experience receiving care within a medical home. - Family Practice Management: Patient-Centered Medical Home Resources
Family Practice Management is a journal of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). Available is a link to a collection of practical medical home articles published in Family Practice Management and other AAFP medical home resources.
- Family Village
A well-designed site which brings together diverse high quality information for parents of children with chronic conditions including condition specific information useful for handouts. - Family Voices
Family Voices (FV) is a national grassroots network of families and friends. They advocate for access to health care services and provide particularly good information for families with children and youth who have special health care needs. Family Voices is in every state, they make it their mission to have up to the minute resource information. They are also linked to numerous “family to family” resource information centers. FV knowledge can help any family in need; their skills also include connecting and involving families one to another when this is desirable. - Family-to-Family Health Information Centers (F2F HICs) are non-profit organizations that help families of children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) and the professionals who serve them. Family-to-Family Health Information Centers are in a unique position to help because they are typically staffed and run by parents. These staff understands the issues that families face and provide advice, offer a multitude of resources, and tap into a network of other families and professionals for support and information.
- Improving Chronic Illness Care (ICIC)
ICIC has worked for almost ten years with national partners toward the goal of bettering the health of chronically ill patients by helping health systems, especially those that serve low-income populations, improve their care through implementation of the Chronic Care Model. - Institute for Health Improvement
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is an independent not-for-profit organization helping to lead the improvement of health care throughout the world. Founded in 1991 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, IHI works to accelerate improvement by building the will for change, cultivating promising concepts for improving patient care, and helping health care systems put those ideas into action. - Maternal Child Health Bureau
Home page of the MCHB, a bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. - Medical Home Portal
The Medical Home Portal provides access to reliable and useful information for professionals and families to help them care and advocate for children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) as partners in the Medical Home model. Based at the University of Utah, the portal now includes resource information from a number of states as well as downloads and links to useful information, tools and resources related to the medical home model – particularly for children with special health care needs. - National Academy for Health Care Policy (NASHP)
The National Academy for State Health Policy is an independent academy of state health policymakers working together to identify emerging issues, develop policy solutions, and improve state health policy and practice. NASHP provides a forum for constructive, nonpartisan work across branches and agencies of state government on critical health issues facing states. - National Committee on Quality Assurance
The National Committee on Quality Assurance provides quality assurance measures and information for health plans, health care provider organizations, and physicians. The NCQA Physician Practice Connection recognition tools were recently expanded to include the Physician Practice Connection – Patient-centered Medical Home survey and measurement tool. The PPC – PCMH has emerged as a method of medical home measurement used by commercial health plans in a series of medical home pilot projects to determine eligibility for enhanced reimbursement scenarios for medical home practices. - National Initiative for Child Health Quality (NICHQ)
The National Institute for Children’s Healthcare Quality (NICHQ) was the child health-focused offspring of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). NICHQ organizes and implements quality improvement projects promoting screening, preventive health care, and chronic condition management for children. NICHQ collaborated with the Center for Medical Home Improvement in the first national medical home learning collaborative in 2004 and has made the promotion of medical homes its primary focus for 2009 and 2010. - Patient Centered Medical Home Resource Center (PCMH)
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality recognizes that revitalizing the Nation’s primary care system is foundational to achieving high-quality, accessible, efficient health care for all Americans. The primary care medical home, also referred to as the patient centered medical home (PCMH), advanced primary care, and the healthcare home, is a promising model for transforming the organization and delivery of primary care.
This Web site provides policymakers and researchers with access to evidence-based resources about the medical home and its potential to transform primary care and improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of U.S. health care.
- Patient-centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC)
Created as a partnership of corporate purchasers of health care for employees, national primary care professional organizations, insurers, consumer organizations, quality improvement and assurance organizations, and other stakeholders, the PCPCC provides an active forum for medical home advocates while keeping the transformation of primary care visible among policy makers and elected officials in Washington. Through national meetings, an weekly, open conference call, workgroups, and its website, the PCPCC has become one of the hubs of national medical home activity. - TransforMed
Established by the American Academy of Family Physicians, TransforMed was designed as a web-based toolkit for medical home transformation. Primary care providers and provider groups can use this web resource to evaluate their current medical home status, develop a strategy for transformation, and find links to tools and resources to assist with practice re-design in the medical home model. There are links to commercial consultants and vendors related to office systems, and TransforMed offers practices the opportunity to purchase various levels of coaching and facilitation. - The Commonwealth Fund
The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation promoting a high performing health care system with better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency by supporting independent research on health care issues and making grants to improve health care practice and policy. Through periodic reports and a weekly e-newsletter, the Fund disseminates information important to health care reform and practice transformation. - 2-1-1 Call Center
2-1-1 provides callers with information about and referrals to human services for every day needs and in times of crisis. - Your State Maternal and Child Health Services Title V Program
Title V is administered by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) as part of the Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In partnership with the States and communities, MCHB provides the leadership and resources needed to advance the health and safety of the nation's mothers, infants, children, adolescents, and CSHCN, including those with low incomes, those with diverse racial and ethnic heritages, and those living in rural or isolated areas without access to MCHB's care.
