Medical Home
Click here to read about the current Family Care Plan project and download the form! View Calendar  The Medical Home work group strives to improve care and outcomes for children with chronic conditions by identifying and testing improvements in the way specialty care, primary care and families work together. The work group is developing tools to improve the tracking of care and the communication of that care within the Medical Home.
Why It Is Important Improving the understanding and utilization of the Medical Home is important because “the coordination of care and chronic condition management leads to: reduced emergency room and hospital use; reduced redundancy in testing, referrals and procedures; and increased efficiency and effectiveness. Additionally, family worry and burden are reduced.” *Center for Medical Home Improvement Definition A “medical home” is a community-based primary care setting that provides and coordinates high quality, planned, family-centered health promotion, acute illness care and chronic condition management – across a lifespan.
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