Institute:Office of National Coordinator (ONC) Workforce Training Curriculum
Component:Introduction to Health Care and Public Health in the U.S.
Unit:Evolution of and Trends in Health Care in the U.S.
Lecture:Patient-Centered Medical Home and Other Models of Care Coordination
Slide content:The Patient-Centered Medical Home ( PCMH ) 2007 Joint principles of the patient-centered medical home delineated by: American Academy of Family Physicians ( AAFP ) American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) American College of Physicians ( ACP ) American Osteopathic Association (AOA) Approach to providing comprehensive primary care Health care setting that facilitates partnerships 5
Slide notes:In 2007, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians, and the American Osteopathic Association, combined their efforts and drafted The Joint Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home, PCMH . They modeled the medical home as a method to provide comprehensive primary care for children, youth, and adults. They felt that the patient-centered medical home was a health care setting that would facilitate partnerships between individual patients, their physicians, and when appropriate, the patients family. 5