Other Medical Home Websites
There are a number of national and state websites with excellent resources and information about medical homes.
National Websites
The National Center for Medical Home Implementation
The American Academy of Pediatrics
Hub of national medical home activities for children and youth with special needs. Information and tools for health care providers and families. National medical home training curriculum, and links to medical home projects and activities in all state.
From the National Center: Building Your Medical Home Toolkit
The user-friendly Toolkit supports practices' development and/or improvement of a pediatric Medical Home. It also prepares practices to to apply for and potentially meet
the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Physician Practice Connections® Patient Centered Medical Home (PPC-PCMHTM) Recognition program requirements. The AAP created a crosswalk between each of the Toolkit building blocks and the NCQA PPC-PCMH Recognition Program 'must pass' elements.
www.pediatricmedhome.org/
NEW! Patient Centered Medical Home Resource Center
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
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.
www.pcmh.ahrq.gov/portal/server.pt/community/pcmh__home/1483
The Center for Medical Home Improvement
Hood Center for Children & Families,
Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Developers of the Medical Home Index and other medical home quality improvement tools. Parent Partner Guide and more.
www.medicalhomeimprovement.org/
Medical Home Portal
The Medical Home Portal aims to provide ready 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. The site has detailed diagnosis-specific information, billing/coding tips and more. Though developed in and for Utah, the Portal is being reprogrammed, with support from a National Library of Medicine grant
to enable sharing its content with other states and regions around the country.
http://medicalhomeportal.org
TransforMED- Transforming Medical Practices
TransforMED is focused on practice redesign and affiliated with the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). Great practical resources on this extensive website focused on helping practices becoming higher performing medical homes.
www.transformed.com/
Improving Chronic Care
A National Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Theory and practical tools for how to systematically improve care for persons of all ages who have ongoing health or developmental conditions. Based in Seattle at
the MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation,
Group Health Cooperative Center for Health Studies.
www.improvingchroniccare.org/
National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality (NICHQ)
Education and research organization dedicated to improving the quality of health care provided to children. NICHQ's mission is to eliminate the gap between what is and what can be in health care for all children. A national organization with its home office in Boston, NICHQ also has offices in Vermont and Washington State at the University of Washington's Child Health Institute.
www.nichq.org/nichq
Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative
PCPCC is a coalition of major employers, consumer groups, and other stakeholders who have joined with organizations representing primary care physicians to develop and advance the patient centered medical home.
The Collaborative believes that, if implemented, the patient centered medical home will improve the health of patients and the viability of the health care delivery system. In order to accomplish our goal, employers, consumers, patients, physicians and payers have agreed that it is essential to support a better model of compensating physicians.
www.pcpcc.net/
The Catalyst Center
National center dedicated to improving health care insurance and financing for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN). Identifies strategies to cover more kids, close benefit gaps, pay for additional services and build capacity. Catalyst creates publications and products, answers technical assistance questions, researchs innovative state-based financing strategies, guides stakeholders to outside resources, and connects those interested in working together to address complex health care coverage and financing issues.
http://hdwg.org/catalyst/
Medical Home State Data Pages- Data Resource Center for Child & 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.
Use this website to see your state’s medical home performance profile for all children or children with special health care needs. You can also compare across all states or view state ranking maps by clicking on the green map of the US.
http://medicalhomedata.org/content/Default.aspx
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State Websites
Center for Children with Special Needs
Program of Seattle Children's Hospital in Seattle, Washington. The Center focuses on improving systems of care for children with special needs through education, research and evaluation. The Center's work impacts policy, quality of care, education and family partnerships in health care.
http://cshcn.org
Alabama Medical Home Website
Medical Home/Health Literacy: A Resource Guide for Physicians. Alabama State website offering free CME for health care providers.
www.medicalhomeinfo.org/state_pages/alabama.aspx
Oregon Medical Home Project
Diagnosis-specific care guidelines, Oregon services for special needs, and more. Information for health care providers, families, and educators.
www.ohsu.edu/cdrc/medicalhome/index.html
Illinois Division of Specialized Care for Children
Diagnostic-specific care guidelines, brochures for families and providers and more.
www.uic.edu/hsc/dscc/
Center for Children and Infants with Special Needs, Cincinnati Children's Hospital
See especially the Special Needs Resource Directory, a national model.
www.cincinnatichildrens.org/svc/alpha/c/special-needs/
Southwest Institute for Children and Families with Special Needs (Arizona)
Medical Home project has articles for parents and forms for health care providers. Main website also has information on adolescent health care transition.
www.swifamilies.org/SWI/Medical_Home.html
Vermont Child Health Improvement Project (VCHIP)
Model for how quality improvement activities can be used to bring together state partners to improve health care services for children. Based at the Univ. of Vermont, College of Medicine, VCHIP
collaborates on many health care quality improvement projects locally and nationally. These include child development, newborn and childhood preventive services, ADHD, asthma, foster care, prenatal care, opiate-exposed newborn care and adolescent health.
www.med.uvm.edu/vchip/HP-DEPT.ASP?SiteAreaID=513
Wisconsin: Medical Home Toolkit
http://wimedicalhometoolkit.aap.org/index.cfm
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