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June 2019

“There is a no one-size-fits-all approach when treating and managing patients with painful conditions. Individuals who live with pain are suffering and need compassionate, individualized and effective approaches to improving pain and clinical outcomes.”
- Vanila M. Singh, M.D. chair of the HHS’ pain management task force, and chief medical officer of the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health.

A recent study compared outcomes for participants in the Transitions Clinic Network (TCN) -- a consortium of primary care clinics for high-risk, chronically ill people recently released from incarceration -- with a propensity-matched control group. "The TCN group had significantly fewer episodes of preventable hospitalizations (IRR=0.46) and shorter length of hospital stay (IRR=0.41) compared with the matched comparison group." They also found that the TCN group "spent 45% fewer days incarcerated in a correctional facility in the 12 months following release compared with the matched comparison group that was not enrolled in such a program."

Excerpted from: Medical Home News, Volume 11 Number 6, June 2019, "The Medical Home As A Tool For Reducing Prison Recidivism," By Emily A. Wang, Hsiu-ju Lin and Jenerius A. Aminawung, et. al.

Impact Of Physicians, NPs, And PAs On Utilization And Costs For Complex Patients
Health Affairs, June 3, 2019

Patient-Reported Access in the PCMH and Avoidable Hospitalizations
Journal of General Internal Medicine, abstract only, June 3, 2019

Colo. Residency PCMH Project: Results From a 6-Year Transformation Effort.
Family Medicine, May 21, 2019

Amblyopia Elimination Project: Pediatric MH-Based Community Vision Screening
Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, abstract only, May 22, 2019

Improve compliance to save your medical home
Contemporary Pediatrics, June 10, 2019

The Practicing PA-ramedic: Home Sweet Medical Home
EMS World, May 16, 2019

Medical home models could cut health care utilization, costs for IBD
Healio Rheumatology, May 16, 2019

NCQA PCMH Annual Reporting: final May 2019 PCMH Webinar

Covers submitting data these critical aspects of PCMH: patient-centered access & continuity; care coordination & care transitions; care management & support;
knowing & managing your patients; team-based care & practice organization; perfor-mance measurement & quality; improve-ment; and behavioral health (special topic).

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	FPM Journal: 7 strategies for your medical assistant to help provide patient-centered care 1. Organize medical assistants (MAs) into provider teams. 2. Engage MAs in population management. 3. Empower MAs to own key quality measures. 4. Turn MAs into health coaches. 5. Develop MAs as outreach workers. 6. Use MAs to help manage high-risk patients. 7. Cross-train MAs to cover for one another. Source: In Practice blog/FPM Journal, May 31, 2019

Featured in this month's Medical Home News Supplement

HHS Recommends Perioperative Surgical Homes To Address Opioid Crisis By Ron Shinkman
The Medical Home As A Tool For Reducing Prison Recidivism By Emily A. Wang, Hsiu-ju Lin and Jenerius A. Aminawung, et. al.
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