The Pediatric Patient-Centered Medical Home: Innovative models for improving behavioral health.

Patient-Centered Medical Home

The Patient - Centered Medical Home

1. Classify medication use and safety issues within primary care. 2. Explore how pharmacists engage with patient-centered medical home (PCMH) models. 3. Demonstrate the compatibilities between pharmacist-provided medication management services and PCMH principles. 4. Justify the integration of a pharmacist-led medication therapy management (MTM) program within a PCMH model. 5. Analyze advantage...

The development of joint principles: integrating behavioral health care into the patient-centered medical home.

This article describes the development of the Joint Principles of The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) by the Working Party Group on Integrated Behavioral Healthcare. The Joint Principles establish the primacy of integrated behavioral health care as a core principle of the PCMH.

The patient-centered medical home in the Veterans Health Administration.

BACKGROUND The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the largest integrated US health system to implement the patient-centered medical home. The Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) initiative (implemented 2010-2014) aims to achieve team based care, improved access, and care management for more than 5 million primary care patients nationwide. OBJECTIVES To describe PACT and evaluate interim cha...

Patient-Centered Medical Home Decisionmaker Brief: Improving Evaluations of the Medical Home

• Focus evaluations on quality, cost, and experience. • Include comparison practices. • Recognize that the PCMH is a practice-level intervention and account for clustering. • Include as many intervention practices as possible. • Be strategic in identifying the right samples of patients to answer each evaluation question. • Rethink the number of patients from whom data are collected to answer ke...