Current Developments
CMHI & the AAP
CMHI works with all primary care related organizations promoting access to a high quality Medical Home across the lifespan. The AAP aims to assist all pediatricians to implement the medical home model for all children, youth and families. CMHI’s Director, Jeanne McAllister, serves as the lead consultant on the development and evaluation of their National Center for Medical Home Implementation - Toolkit. Like the CMHI Medical Home TAPPP™ (Gap) Analysis the AAP's toolkit promotes quality and Medical Home standards.
The National Center for Medical Home Implementation – Toolkit (AAP) is available via a link on their website (www.medicalhomeinfo.org). The toolkit will help practices embark upon their own transformation process. Included in the kit is a framework, change package, references to the NCQA Patient Centered Medical Home Recognition Standards, and a basic "starter kit" of tools useful for pediatric practices, individual care providers and health care teams.
NCQA Medical Home Standards
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) is a private, 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving health care quality through a rigorous set of standards and measures of quality performance. In 2007, NCQA through the input of the American College of Physicians (ACP), American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and American Osteopathic Association (AOA) and others developed standards to assess whether physician practices are functioning as medical homes. Building upon the joint principles developed by these primary care specialty societies, NCQA released the Physician Practice Connections® - Patient-Centered Medical Home (PPC®-PCMH™, a set of standards emphasizing the use of systematic, patient-centered, coordinated care management processes). View the PPC®-PCMH™ standards.
