Community Health Digest

12/17/09 President Announces Funds for Community Health Centers, PCMH Pilot Project

12/17/09 President Announces Funds for Community Health Centers, PCMH Pilot Project

AAFP News Now - James Arvantes

"The fact that medical homes are going to occur and the pilots are going to be expanded is essentially evidence that we are getting much more traction in ...

11/23/09 UnitedHealtcare Wins Innovation Award from National Business Coalition on...

11/23/09 UnitedHealthcare Wins Innovation Award from National Business Coalition on ...

dBusinessNews Minneapolis (press release)

... help improve the quality and safety of the care experience as well as the delivery of preventive and chronic care; and drive patient satisfaction. ...

11/18/09 PCDC Releases How to Manual to Help Safety Net Providers Qualify as Medical...

11/18/09 P C D C Releases How To Manual To Help Safety Net Providers Qualify As Medical ...

PRLog.Org (press release)

... help safety-net providers become recognized as Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMH), which is expected to lead not only to improved patient outcomes, ...

10/29/09 Research and Markets: Hospitals in a Medical Home: Partners in Enhancing...

10/29/09 Research and Markets: Hospitals in a Medical Home: Partners in Enhancing ...

Reuters

... The multiple roles of the hospital in the medical home network; * Deploying disease management and chronic care to a financially vulnerable population; ...

10/22/09 American Academy of Pediatrics Pushes NHLBI Guidelines with New Initiative

10/22/09 American Academy of Pediatrics Pushes NHLBI Guidelines with New Initiative

news Stories

“Children with asthma and their families often need professional support from pediatricians to manage asthma: a complex, chronic disease,” said Floyd ...

10/16/09 Third Annual PCPCC National Summit: All Eyes on The Patient Centered Medical Home

10/16/09 Third Annual PCPCC National Summit: All Eyes on The Patient Centered Medical Home

Reuters

Across the nation, dozens of patient centered medical homes are already organizing or operating at the local, regional and state levels. ...

10/6/09 Medical Home's Role in Reforming Health Care Delivery is Central...

10/6/09 Medical Home's Role in Reforming Health Care Delivery is Central ...

PR Newswire (press release)

Across the nation, dozens of patient centered medical homes are already organizing or operating at the local, regional and state levels. ...

9/17/09 HHS Announces Medicare Pilot Program

9/17/09 HHS announces Medicare pilot program

MiamiHerald.com - Jennifer C. Kerr

Under the Vermont program, private insurers work with Medicaid to set uniform standards for so-called "medical homes" - a single doctor or practice that ...

9/9/09 New, Web-based Tool from ACP Guides Practices to Become...

9/9/09 New, web-based tool from the ACP guides practices to become ...

EurekAlert (press release)

"While many groups have been talking at the theoretical level about the importance of patient-centered care, this is a how-to guide about how your practice ...

8/15/09 A New Approach to 'Medical Homes' Will Transform the Relationship

8/15/09  A new approach to 'medical homes' will transform the relationship ...

IdahoStatesman.com - Colleen Lamay

A new Idaho task force, the Patient-Centered Medical Home Partners Group, is a coalition of health care providers dedicated to creating medical homes in ...

7/29/09 Primary Care Gets Boost From Stimulus Money, Experiment on...

7/29/09 Primary Care Gets Boost From Stimulus Money, Experiment On ...

Kaiser Health News

"Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius announced Tuesday that $200 million will be available for grants, loans, loan repayments and ...

7/27/09 Enthusiasm for medical homes gradually picks up

7/27/09 Enthusiasm For Medical Homes Gradually Picks Up

Medical News Today (press release)

CNN reports on patient-centered medical homes: "The model is already being tested in 44 states -- with such big health insurers as UnitedHealthcare, ...

7/23/09 Health care's future may already exist

7/23/09 Health care's future may already exist

CNNMoney.com - Parija B. Kavilanz

... Dr. Howard McMahan, a primary care physician based in Ocilla, Ga., is on the fence about transforming his practice into a patient-centered medical home. ...

7/19/09 Building solid medical homes

7/19/09 Building solid medical homes

American Medical News

In the past few years, the concept of the patient-centered medical home has gained momentum. Payers, including Medicare, have shown an interest in it, ...

7/16/09 Medical Homes Across America

7/16/09 Medical homes across America

Modern Medicine - Morgan Lewis Jr

Pennsylvania's medical home program is just one of at least 22 commercial health insurer sponsored patient-centered medical home demonstration programs ...

7/12/09 Large health plans work together on medical home pilots

7/12/09 Large health plans work together on medical home pilots

American Medical News - Emily Berry

Multiple health plans have agreed to cooperate on patient-centered medical home pilot projects across several states. The pilots not only will reward ...

7/7/09 Poor working conditions put physicians at risk of burnout

7/7/09 Poor Working Conditions Put Physicians at Risk of Burnout Despite ...

Modern Medicine

"Current practice redesign projects, such as those focusing on the patient-centered medical home, could be an opportunity to create healthier work ...

7/5/09 Medical homesteading: Moving forward with care coordination

7/5/09 Medical homesteading: Moving forward with care coordination

American Medical News - Chris Silva

Edward G. Rendell to help control health care costs and involve insurance companies in patient-centered medical home planning. Blue Cross Blue Shield of ...

6/28/09 Delegates Say Don't Shortchange Specialists to Fund Care Model

6/28/09 Delegates say don't shortchange specialists to fund care model

American Medical News - Emily Berry

The AMA will ask CMS to help practices become patient-centered medical homes and to support models that allow non-primary care doctors to qualify. ...

6/27/09 Above-average health care spending doesn't mean higher quality of care

6/27/09 Above-average health care spending doesn't mean higher quality of care

MedCity News - Mary Vanac

Promote health information technology, patient-centered medical homes and payment reforms, Hayes said. Inform and activate patients, and figure out how to ...