Medical Home Bulletin
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  "We know so much more about autism spectrum disorder than we did 10 years ago, so we hoped that this talk [a brief primer of current information about ASD] along with other supportive tools would help primary care pediatricians feel more comfortable taking care of kids with autism and more able to serve as a medical home for them... Even if pediatricians are not sure what to do, they can provide the big picture and help support families, and enter into shared decision-making with families to help arrive at a consensus about the best treatment and the one the family wants to pursue.”
Susan E. Levy, MD, MPH, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

 
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  14% of large employers are implementing patient-centered medical homes for 2020; 18% are considering doing so for 2021-2022.  
 
Source: 2020 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey: Executive Summary, National Business Group on Health, 2019.
 
 
What's News
  Evaluation of the need for a fracture liaison service in a PCMH
Journal of American Pharmacists Association via ScienceDirect, July-August, 2019
 
     
  Featured counter-trafficking program: The CAREs clinic, a primary care MH
Child Abuse & Neglect via ScienceDirect, August 8, 2019
 
     
  Adolescent Access to Patient-Centered Medical Homes.
The Journal of Pediatrics, abstract only, August 6, 2019
 
     
  Cost & Utilization  in a MH for Individuals with an Autism Spectrum Disorder
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, abstract only, August 3, 2019
 
     
  Newborn Screening Long Term Follow-Up in the Medical Home
International Journal of Neonatal Screening, abstract only, July 25, 2019
 
     
  Assessing quality improvement capacity in primary care practices
BMC Family Practice, abstract only, July 25, 2019
 
     
  Integrating a MH in an Outpatient Dialysis Setting: Effects on Quality of Life.
Journal of General Internal Medicine, abstract only, July 24, 2019
 
Insights
  Medical ‘home’ programs offer coordinated care for autistic people
Spectrum News, August 13, 2019
 
     
  PCMH + risk scores suggest possible gaming or worse; Advocates call on DSS
Connecticut Health Policy Project, August 12, 2019
 
     
  A Path to Value-Based Respiratory Care: Accreditation model
Home Care, August 6, 2019
 
     
  Yale Refugee Health Program Provides Medical Home for Refugees
Yale and the World blog, July 29, 2019
 
     
  Here’s the Who, What, When, Where and Why on PCMH Standards Changes
Ambulatory Buzz/The Joint Commission, July 24, 2019
 
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Advanced Methods in Delivery System Research: Logic Models

This webinar has two presentations, one on the logic model as a foundation to implement, study, and refine patient-centered medical home models and the other on using logic models to understand variation in implementation of full service partnerships.

 
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  The Journal of Pediatrics: 5 Things to Know About Adolescent Access to PCMHs

1. Overall, 91% of US adolescents had a usual source of care, but only 51% had access to a PCMH.
2. Hispanic adolescents had 0.56 lower adjusted odds of having a PCMH compared with white adolescents.
3. Black adolescents had 0.55 lower adjusted odds of having a PCMH compared with white adolescents.
4. Adolescents with 3-5 special health care needs had 0.43 lower adjusted odds of having a PCMH compared with adolescents without any special health care needs.
5. Those living below 4 times the poverty level had lower adjusted odds of PCMH access than other adolescents.

Note: From an article entitled, "Adolescent Access to Patient-Centered Medical Homes," by Christina M. Martone, MPH, Annie Gjelsvik, PhD, Joanna D. Brown, MD, MPH, Michelle L. Rogers, PhD, and Patrick M. Vivier, MD, PhD. 

Source: The Journal of Pediatrics, August 6, 2019
 
     
 
This Month in Medical Home News
 

Featured in this month's Medical Home News Supplement

  • PCPCC's 2019 Evidence Report Shows Value Of Primary Care By Ron Shinkman
  • Primary Care Is Critical To Controlling Costs And Raising Quality, But It’s Currently Underfunded By Hoangmai Pham, M.D., and Ann Greiner

Also Featured in this month's Population Health News

  • The City Health Dashboard: A National Resource for Population Health Improvement by Shoshanna Levine, DrPH and Marc N. Gourevitch, MD, MPH
  • A Bias for Unbiased Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare by Nick Giannasi
  • Diversity in the Physician Workforce by Carla Boutin-Foster
  • Thought Leaders' Corner: "How can providers address racial and gender inequities in healthcare?"
  • Industry News with briefs regarding BMJ Open, Schooner Strategies, Integrated Health Partners, Global Wellness Institute and Parks Associates.
  •  Catching Up With... Dr. Sanjay Seth
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