Medical Home Competencies
Describing the Medical Home
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) developed the medical home as a model of delivering primary care that is accessible, continuous, comprehensive, family-centered, coordinated, compassionate, and culturally effective to every child and adolescent. A pediatric medical home is a family-centered partnership within a community-based system that provides uninterrupted care with appropriate payment to support and sustain optimal health outcomes. Medical homes address preventative, acute, and chronic care from birth through transition to adulthood. A medical home facilitates an integrated health system with an interdisciplinary team of patients and families, primary care physicians, specialists and subspecialists, hospitals and healthcare facilities, public health and the community.
Medical Home Resources
- A Review of the Evidence for the Medical Home for Children With Special Health Care Needs
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Homer et. al; Pediatrics 2008 - Building a Medical Neighborhood for the Medical Home
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Fisher; NEJM 2008 - Care Coordination for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs: A Descriptive, Multisite Study of Activities, Personnel Costs, and Outcomes
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Antonelli, Stille & Antonelli; Pediatrics 2008 - Patient- and Family-Centered Care Coordination: A Framework for Integrating Care for Children and Youth Across Multiple Systems, AAP Policy Statement; May 2014
- How is a Shortage of Primary Care Physicians Affecting the Quality and Cost of Medical Care?
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American College of Physicians White Paper; Pediatrics 2008 - Identifying Infants and Young Children with Developmental Disorders in the Medical Home: An Algorithm for Developmental Surveillance and Screening
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- AAP Council on Children with Disabilities Policy Statement; July 2006
- Joint Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home
AAP 2007
- Joint Principles
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- Preamble to the Joint Principles
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- Joint Principles
- Measuring the Medical Home Infrastructure in Large Medical Groups
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Rittenhouse et.al; Health Affairs 2008 - Medical Home Index
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Center for Medical Home Improvement - No Place Like Home - Testing a New Model of Care Delivery
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Iglehart; NEJM 2008 - Organizing Principles to Guide and Define the Child Health Care System and/or Improve the Health of All Children
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AAP Medical Home Initiatives for Children With Special Needs Project Advisory Committee; Pediatrics 2002 - Physician Practice Connections Patient-Centered Medical Home
National Committee for Quality Assurance
PPC-PCMH Fact Sheet, 145 KB
PPC-PCMH Summary of Content and Scoring, 37 KB
- Practice Improvements in Medical Homes
Smith; Presentation at the Child Health Policy Research Symposium, 108KB
- Primary Care: Can It Solve Employers' Health Care Dilemma
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Sepulveda et. al; Health Affairs 2008 - Primary Care - Will It Survive?
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Bodenheimer; NEJM 2008 - Role of the Medical Home in Family-Centered Early Intervention Services
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- AAP Council on Children with Disabilities Policy Statement; November 2007
- Side-by-Side Summary of State Medical Home Programs
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National Partnership for Women & Families 2008 - The Medical Home, Access to Care, and Insurance: A Review of the Evidence
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- This website provides pediatric medical home information, tools, and resources for practices, clinicians, families, and state agencies. It includes education and training opportunities, evidence supporting the pediatric medical home model, information about medical home initiatives by state, and information about promising practices throughout the country.