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  • Introduction
  • Transformation Process
    • Form a Medical Home Improvement Team
    • Assess Your Practice
    • Understand Quality Improvement
  • Key Functions
    • Family-Centered Care
    • Coordinated Care
    • Managing Your Patient Population
  • Sustain Your
    Medical Home

Building Your Medical Home

An Introduction to Pediatric Primary Care Transformation

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Assess Your Practice
 

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  • Introduction
  • Transformation Process
    • Form a Medical Home Improvement Team
    • Assess Your Practice
    • Understand Quality Improvement
  • Key Functions
    • Family-Centered Care
    • Coordinated Care
    • Managing Your Patient Population
  • Sustain Your
    Medical Home
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Assess Your Practice

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​​​​​​​A practice assessment allows the team to identify a starting point from which to evolve throughout the transformation.​​


 
Medical home transformation involves changes in practice policies, procedures, and overall practice culture. In order to achieve these changes, a medical home improvement team should be established and must first assess existing practices, work flow, clinic structure, processes and procedures.​​

A practice assessment can help a medical home improvement team to:
  • Identify existing medical home policies and procedures
  • Identify policies and procedures which can be improved
  • Identify policies and procedures which can be modified or eliminated
  • Identify new policies and procedures which can be implemented
  • Measure transformation progress over time​
"Providing care in line with medical home concepts is far from new – most of us have always worked with these principles in our practice.”
Julia Richerson, MD, FAAP

Family Health Center Iroquois

Pediatrician
Louisville, KY

Tools and Resources

EQIPP Medical Home: Practice Survey
Comprehensive tool which will allow practice self-assessment in various aspects of medical home such as: population management, teamwork, family-centered and coordinated care, among others.

Medical Home Index
Validated self-assessment tool designed to measure observable and tangible behaviors to assess the degree of medical home-ness within a practice.

Patient Centered Medical Home Checklist: Getting Started
Patient Centered Medical Home Checklist: Building on Change
Patient Centered Medical Home Checklist: Final Touches
Self-assessment tools that primary care practices can use to determine their level of medical home-ness.

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