The
Road to Medical Home:
Which path are you taking?
The National Center of Medical Home Initiatives for CSHCN
held the annual medical home grantee meeting on Sunday,
July 18th at the Chicago Sheraton Towers. During this
one-day meeting, participants had the opportunity to network
with medical home state, community, and practice teams,
learn how to sustain quality improvement initiatives,
and establish collaborations with critical partners. Updates
form the Medical Home Mentorship Network were provided
as well as the opportunity to share lessons learned on
how to incentivize practices to increase their medical
homeness? and how to sustain/spread medical home initiatives.
Agenda
Guest List:
In addition to current medical home grantees, we added to
our guest list past medical home grantees and practice participants
of the National Medical Home Learning Collaborative. It
is our goal to continue to expand our efforts and knowledge
base on how states, communities and practices are improving
access to medical homes and improving the lives of CYSHCN
and their families.
AIM: Accelerating widespread implementation
of the medical home: Developing a more specific plan
Sessions/Presentations
Challenges on the road to medical home
An interactive session on the top 5 challenges to implementing
medical homes at the state, community, and practice level.
Medical home teams/practices provided strategies and lessons
learned while a panel of experts also provided feedback.
Click
here to view the notes from this session. Strategies
on related topics that were offered through sessions at
the CATCH and Medical Home National Conference were also
incorporated.
Putting the Pieces Together: Lessons Learned
State Update:
Learning Collaborative Updates:
“Understanding
Spread of Innovation” - Charlie
Homer, MD
Briefing Binder
National Center of Medical Home Initiatives
Fact Sheets
Medical Home Mentorship Network Brochure
Article: Berwick, DM. Disseminating
Innovations in Health Care. JAMA, April 2003 – Vol.
289, No. 15. 1969-1975.
National Medical Home Learning Collaborative Final Report:
Implementing a Learning Collaborative on the Medical Home
for Children with Special Health Care Needs
Care Coordination Toolkit
Proper Use of Coordination of Care Codes with Children
with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN). This toolkit provides
information on billing fort the coordination of care with
descriptions of individual codes, proper documentation,
and an easy to follow billing slip. Toolkit
Last Updated July 9, 2004
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