National Initiatives Overview

These pages provide information related to the various education and implementation initiatives occurring across the nation related to medical home. The information provided is not exhaustive and is updated continuously.

Health Care Reform & Medical Home
Health care reform has created new possibilities for the advancement of medical home. This page provides information and resources related to health care reform and its relationship to medical home.

Medical Home Chapter Champions Program on Asthma (MHCCPA)
Find out about best practices and advocacy related to the implementation of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) asthma guidelines within medical homes at the AAP chapter and/or state level(s).

Medical Home Recognition & Accreditation Programs
Several organizations have developed or in the process of developing programs that recognize and/or accredit various health care organizations as medical homes according to specified sets of standards.

National Demonstration Projects & State Initiatives
This page hosts information and links related to multi-payer (private and public) demonstration projects and various state grant initiatives across the country that are piloting the medical home model.

Program to Enhance the Health & Development of Infants and Children (PEHDIC)
Learn about the PEHDIC, a five-year cooperative agreement between the AAP and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that aims to translate critical research and guidelines focused on preventive health care, continuity of care, and transition to adulthood into practice, as well as expand provider and public education related to health promotion and disease prevention. In the first year of the agreement, the PEHDIC will focus on early hearing detection and intervention, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, birth defects (specifically congenital heart defects), newborn screening, and H1N1 influenza recommendations for children with special health care needs. In addition, the Neuromotor Screening Initiative is focusing on the importance of surveillance and screening of motor development in the medical home.