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  Complimentary from the publishers of Medical Home News                        March, 2018
 
 
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  “There are some particular conditions where the majority of care needs to be in a specialty setting, but (those providers) need to be charged with the holistic care of the patient. That
is the definition of the medical home. To say I am a medical home for treating just epilepsy is really not serving the entire patient’s needs.”
L. Allen Dobson, Jr., M.D., Chief Executive Officer and President of Community Care of North Carolina, Inc.
 
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  "Estimates indicate that that the percentage of healthcare spending devoted to primary care in the United States ranges between 5.8 and 7.7 percent, with wide variation and no
standardized definition about how to calculate this investment."

 
 
  Excerpted from: Medical Home News, Volume 10 Number 3, March 2018, "Leveraging PCMH Evidence to Make the Case for Greater Investment in Primary Care," by Ann Greiner and Chris Adamec.  
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Source: Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine (JABFM), March-April, 2018
 
     
 
This Month in Medical Home News
 
  • Leveraging PCMH Evidence to Make the Case for Greater Investment in Primary Care by Ann Greiner and Chris Adamec
  • Using the Medical Home to Transform Primary Care Across the Largest Safety-Net Health System in the United States by Rebecca Miller, Dhruv Khullar, Kaushal Challa, Christina Jenkins, Dave A. Chokshi
  • Editor's Corner: HHS Secretary Alex Azar, "The Need To Jump Start New Initiatives To Transform The U.S. Healthcare System"
  • Medical Home Quotes
  • Industry News with briefs regarding Primary Care Development Corp. and CMS.
  • Catching Up With … L. Allen Dobson, Jr., M.D.
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