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This brief describes how decisionmakers can encourage a model of care that truly reflects the needs, preferences and goals of patients and families.
This decision-maker brief offers programmatic and policy changes that can help practices, especially smaller ones, better deliver services to all patients, including those with the most complex health needs.
This paper examines successful approaches to delivering mental health treatment in primary care and patient-centered medical homes settings.
This paper explores the current landscape of patient-centered medical home services for patients with complex needs, details five programs that have addressed the challenges of caringfor these patients, and offers programmatic and policy changes that can help smaller practices betterdeliver…
A key element of the PCMH model is engaging patients and caregivers in their care. This paper offers policymakers and researchers insights into opportunities to engage patients and families in the medical home and includes a framework for conceptualizing opportunities for engagement. It also…
This toolkit is designed to help your hospital understand the Quality Indicators from AHRQ, and support your use of them to successfully improve quality and patient safety in your hospital. Created by the RAND Corporation and the University HealthSystem Consortium with funding from AHRQ, it is…
What is it?Suburban Hospital has partnered with the YMCA to organize seminars for community residents that address issues facing many parents today. In years past, seminars and workshops have highlighted issues ranging from parenting essentials to the screening of the powerful documentary, Race to…
OverviewOpened in fall 2004, Clara’s House is a facility where children and adolescents, suffering from mental health or chemical dependency, can heal in a caring, warm environment designed especially to meet their needs. Before Clara’s House, children and adolescents were transferred to the Twin…
OverviewSaint Joseph’s Mercy Care Services, a subsidiary of Saint Joseph’s Health System, is one of Atlanta’s oldest and largest community outreach programs, serving the homeless, uninsured, underinsured and immigrant populations by “taking health care where it is needed most.” Mercy Care Services…
What is it?The Pratt Health Foundation (PHF) collaborates with Pratt dentists and schools to provide a dental screening program for Pratt elementary kids. Kansas statutes require an annual dental screening program for elementary students. The program was started with a United Methodist Health…