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	"We are at risk of losing the true concept of the Patient Centered Medical Home by believing that the transformation challenge is at the Center (i.e., the delivery organization or staff or providers). The challenge is getting patients to become full partners in their own health care. The Center’s challenge is to be available and supportive of the patients by offering an available, coordinated, comprehensive, continuous, quality experience -- easy stuff compared to transforming patients understanding and investment in their own health care and wellness!" Sam JW Romeo, MD, MBA, Tower Health & Wellness Center
	Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey's Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Program had a 25% lower rate in hospital readmissions Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
	ACOEM Advocates for Widespread Implementation of ACOs, PCHMs Becker's Hospital Review, April 23, 2012
	Fine Print: Patient-Centered Medical Homes NJ Spotlight, April 17, 2012
	Medical homes offer patients better monitoring of their treatment Democrat and Chronicle, April 16, 2012
	Extending the PCMH model to hospitals Healthcare Payer News, April, 13 2012
	Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield program helps cut emergency-room visits Asbury Park Press, April, 10 2012
	Can a specialty practice be a patient-centered medical home? American Medical News, April 9, 2012
	Healthcare Performance Management within a Medical Home: A Model for the Nation by Alexandra Stuehler Cha, PhD If You Build It Will They Come? Social Determinants of Medical Home Access and Use by Jaya Aysola, MD, DTMH, MPH Editor’s Corner: Call to Action: Are Physicians Who Practice in a PCMH Any More Patient-Centered than Non-PCMH Physicians? - Stephen Wilkins, MPH Patient-Centered Mobile Apps for Chronic Illness by Pat Salber, MD, MBA Thought Leaders Corner: “According to respondents in a 2011 Healthcare Intelligence Network survey, the top three challenges to adopting a patient-centered medical home were staff buy-in (31%), reimbursement (19%), and physician-led care (15%). What has been your experience?” Industry News with briefs regarding CMS, Commonwealth Fund, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Hawai‘i Island Beacon Community, PCPCC, and Independence Blue Cross Catching up with… Meredith Rosenthal, PhD Click here to view page one of this issue Click here to subscribe to Medical Home News, or find out more
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