National Medical Home Projects (some examples)

National Center of 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.
Website: www.medicalhomeinfo.org

Patient-centered Primary Care Collaborative

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.
Website: www.pcpcc.net

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.
Website: www.transformed.org

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.
Website: www.ncqa.org

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.
Website: www.commonwealthfund.org

National Institute for Children’s Healthcare Quality

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.
Website: www.nichq.org

The 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.
Website: www.medicalhomeportal.org

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.