How to Partner With Your Physician
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The family-centered partnership is the cornerstone to medical home; it is the trusting, collaborative, working partnership between providers and families, respecting diversity and recognizing that families are the constant in a child’s life. |
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Improving the Medical Home Through the Use of Health Information Technology—A Fact Sheet for Families 
American Academy of Peditarics (AAP), National Center for Medical Home Implementation, AAP Child Health Informatics Center
A NEW WAY…A BETTER WAY. The Medical Home Partnership: Building a Home Base for Your Child with Special Health Care Needs
New England SERVE for families in Massachusetts
It provides a checklist for families to use in choosing a physician for their child, or as a way to start a conversation with their child's doctor about Medical Home. If you are interested in replicating this brochure with specific information for your state or community, please contact Alexa Halberg at ahalberg@neserve.org or by phone: 617/574-9493.
Health Care Visit Checklist for All Children
Family Voices
This checklist provides information to help health care providers work with parents as partners to keep children safe and healthy.
Families Partnering With Providers
Family Voices
These tips on communicating with your child's providers focus on the following areas: Preparing For An Office Visit, Talking With Your Child's Provider, Learning More (after the visit with the provider), and Helping Your Provider Help Other Families.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Resources for Patients
This initiative encourages clinicians and patients to engage in effective two-way communication to ensure safer care and better health outcomes. Resources to help prepared patients before, during, and after their medical appointments include:
Parent Tips: Building Early Intervention Partnerships with Your Child's Doctor
Washington State Infant Toddler Early Intervention Program (ITEIP) and the University of Washington Center for Human Development and Disabilities (CHDD)
This brochure includes practical tips from and for parents in how to choose, partner and talk with your child's doctor, how to be an advocate for your child in early intervention and involve your doctor in early intervention services for your child. Available in: English · Cambodian · Chinese · Korean · Laotian · Russian · Spanish · Vietnamese .
Parent's Partnering with Managed Care Plans
Family Voices
This seven-page pamphlet of topics and questions can be used as a starting point for families and plans to share perspectives on services for children with special health needs and to help guide plans and families in ways to partner together to improve services.
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Principles for Patient and Family-Centered Care: Medical Home from the Consumer Perspective
National Partnership for Women & Families
This brochure describes the nine key principles that should guide the implementation of patient-and family-centered medical home.
Patient Brochure and Consumer Advocates Guides .
National Partnership for Women and Families
This patient brochure is a guide for patients and consumers on medical home and what it means for them, along with consumer advocate guides
Family-Centered Care Tool—Self Assessment Tool for Families
Family Voices
This tool is not designed to provide a score but is meant as an opportunity for reflection and quality improvement activities related to family-centered care within outpatient health care practices. It can also be used by families to assess their own skills and strengths, the care their children and youth receive, and to engage in discussions within health care settings and with policy makers in organizations, health plans and community and state agencies about ways to improve health care services and supports.
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Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care (IPFCC)
IPFCC provides leadership to advance the understanding and practice of patient- and family-centered care. By promoting collaborative, empowering relationships among patients, families, and health care professionals, the Institute facilitates patient- and family-centered change in all settings where individuals and families receive care and support. Their site features free downloadable resources/tools that explain how patients and families can serve as advisors to enhance quality and safety, redesign systems of care, and educate health care professionals.
Center for Medical Home Improvement (CMHI)
CMHI has collected a wealth of resources for patients and families in regards to medical home. Their site features information on the evidence of family-centered care, tools for measuring it, and additional resources, including a learning guide for caregivers.
Family-to-Family Health Information Centers (F2F HICs)
F2F HICs are non-profit organizations that help families of children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) and the professionals who serve them. F2F HICs are typically staffed by parents of CYSHCN who understand the issues that families face, provide advice, offer resources, and tap into a network of other families and professionals for support and information.
Talking with Your Doctor
and Other Healthcare Professionals
This web site, which was developed with funding from Children's Medical Services (Florida Title V CSHCN Program), includes videos, tips and strategies to help youth and young adults communicate more effectively with health care providers.
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