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This page was last modified on : 05/07/2008

Offering you information, tools, and resources that support a medical home for children and youth with special health care needs and their families.

Families

  • Partnering with your child's physician
  • Organizing health records
  • Advocate for your child
  • Services and resources information
  • Tips from families who've "been there"

Physicians

  • Clinical care guidelines
  • Patient education materials
  • County-specific lists of resources
  • Reimbursement strategies
  • Coding tips
  • Office strategies

Other Providers

  • Referral forms
  • Communication with primary care physicians
  • Service coordination information and strategies
  • Supporting families as medical home partners and advocates for their children
Medical Home Leadership Network (MHLN) Teams and other Advocates
  • Team contacts and community activities
  • Tools to support community education and outreach
  • Links to data and grant writing resources


A medical home is not a building, but rather a team approach to providing comprehensive primary health care services in a high-quality and cost-effective manner.

In a medical home the child or youth, his or her family, primary care physician, and other health professionals develop a trusting partnership based on mutual responsibility and respect for each other's expertise. Partners share complete information with each other.

Together, families, health care professionals and community service providers identify and access all medical and non-medical services needed to help the child and family.

Medical homes are especially important for children with special health care needs and their families. However, all children and adults benefit from coordinated, family-centered care.  The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Medicine and the American College of Physicians (Internal Medicine) embrace the medical home approach to health care.

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The MHLN is housed at the Center on Human Development and Disability, University of Washington

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