Medical Home Competencies

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.

1. A Review of the Evidence for the Medical Home for Children With Special Health Care Needs , 476 KB
   Homer et. al; Pediatrics 2008
2. Building a Medical Neighborhood for the Medical Home , 102 KB
   Fisher; NEJM 2008
3. Care Coordination for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs: A Descriptive, Multisite Study of Activities, Personnel Costs, and Outcomes , 313 KB
   Antonelli, Stille & Antonelli; Pediatrics 2008
4. Patient- and Family-Centered Care Coordination: A Framework for Integrating Care for Children and Youth Across Multiple Systems, AAP Policy Statement; May 2014
5. How is a Shortage of Primary Care Physicians Affecting the Quality and Cost of Medical Care? , 527 KB
   American College of Physicians White Paper; Pediatrics 2008
6. Identifying Infants and Young Children with Developmental Disorders in the Medical Home: An Algorithm for Developmental Surveillance and Screening , 900 KB
7. AAP Council on Children with Disabilities Policy Statement; July 2006
8. Joint Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home
   AAP 2007
   
   • Joint Principles , 37 KB
   • Preamble to the Joint Principles , 22 KB
9. Measuring the Medical Home Infrastructure in Large Medical Groups , 197 KB
   Rittenhouse et.al; Health Affairs 2008
10. Medical Home Index , 843 KB
    Center for Medical Home Improvement
11. No Place Like Home - Testing a New Model of Care Delivery , 102 KB
    Iglehart; NEJM 2008
12. Organizing Principles to Guide and Define the Child Health Care System and/or Improve the Health of All Children , 48KB
    AAP Medical Home Initiatives for Children With Special Needs Project Advisory Committee; Pediatrics 2002
13. 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
14. Practice Improvements in Medical Homes
    Smith; Presentation at the Child Health Policy Research Symposium , 108KB
15. Primary Care: Can It Solve Employers' Health Care Dilemma , 109 KB
    Sepulveda et. al; Health Affairs 2008
16. Primary Care - Will It Survive? , 225 KB
    Bodenheimer; NEJM 2008
17. Role of the Medical Home in Family-Centered Early Intervention Services , 105 KB
18. AAP Council on Children with Disabilities Policy Statement; November 2007
19. Side-by-Side Summary of State Medical Home Programs , 78 KB
    National Partnership for Women & Families 2008
20. The Medical Home, Access to Care, and Insurance: A Review of the Evidence , 249 KB