Medical Home Bulletin
  Complimentary from the publishers of Medical Home News                  April 3, 2012  
 
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  "Since 'success' in a medical home is often measured by reductions in specialist referrals and hospital admissions," William F. Jessee, MD, FACMPE, Senior Vice President and Senior Advisor, Integrated Healthcare Strategies
 
 
Factoid
  At least 41 states are now testing the medical home concept

Excerpted from Experts disagree about value of 'medical home' programs, The Bellingham Herald, March 22, 2012 
 
What's News
  ‘Medical home’ care takes off
The State, March 25, 2012
 
     
  Experts disagree about value of 'medical home' programs
The Bellingham Herald, March 22, 2012
 
     
  Study: PCMH needs better evaluation tools
CMIO, March 21, 2012
 
     
  Welcoming Patients Home
MD News, March 20, 2012
 
     
  6 best practices of patient-centered medical homes
FierceHealthcare, March 19, 2012
 
     
  Study Finds Higher Morale, Job Satisfaction Associated With PCMH Model
American Academy of Family Physicians, March 14, 2012
 
     
This Month in Medical Home News
 
  • Pennsylvania: A Learning Laboratory for Medical Home Implementation by Robert Gabbay, MD, PhD
  • Integrating Clinical Pharmacy into the Medical Home Model: Solving a Medication Use Crisis by Anthony P. Morreale, PharmD, MBA, BCPS; Heather Ourth, PharmD, BCPS, CGP; and Julie A. Groppi, PharmD, CDE
  • Editor’s Corner: Introducing Julie Schilz; Call to Action: Leadership Roles for Nurses - Jamie M. Ware, Esq., MSW and Nancy Rothman, EdD, RN Key Take-Aways from the Fourth National Medical Home Summit by Steve Wilkins, MPH
  • Thought Leaders Corner: “The recent controversial piece by Ezekiel Emanuel in The New York Times predicted the ‘extinction’ of health plans because of delivery system re-structuring. Even if they aren’t extinct, how will health plans look and act differently over the next five to ten years?”
  • Industry News with briefs regarding NCQA, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM), Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware, Medical Society of Delaware, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, CMS
  • Catching up with… William F. Jessee, MD, FACMPE
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