Medical Home Bulletin
  Complimentary from the publishers of Medical Home News                March 18, 2013  
 
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How Health Care Providers Are Working to Improve Care Transitions
 

How Health Care Providers Are Working to Improve Care Transitions

Angela Richards, RN, project manager at Androscoggin Home Care & Hospice, discusses how Patient-Centered Medical Homes in Maine work to help patients during transitions in care.


 
 
Research
 

Readiness of Primary Care Practices for Medical Home Certification

According to a recent analysis of 2007 and 2008 survey data, on average, pediatric practices met 38% and family/general practices met 36% of the medical home standards set by the National Committee on Quality Assurance, which could be measured by the survey.

Source: Pediatrics, abstract only, February 4, 2013
Source URL: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2013/01/29/peds.2012-2029.abstract

 
 
This Month in Medical Home News
 
  • Group Visits -- the “Secret Sauce” of the Medical Home by Edward B. Noffsinger, PhD
  • High Utilizer Pilot to Ambulatory ICU by Chris Echterling, MD
  • Editor’s Corner – Farewell and thanks to Margaret Kirkegaard, MD; Welcome to Mary Takach, BSN, MPH
  • Spreading Medical Home Concepts beyond Primary Care
  • Thought Leader’s Corner: "Will tele-services (telehealth, telemedicine, telemonitoring) become the magic bullet of the medical home?”
  • Industry News with briefs regarding the National Commission on Physician Payment Reform; TransforMed; Pediatrics; The Joint Commission; and the California Senate
  • Catching up with … Amy Gibson, MS, RNP
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