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Medical
Home Tools
How to become a medical home through
a quality improvement process:
Center for Medical Home Improvement:
The Medical Home Index (MHI) www.medicalhomeimprovement.org/outcomes.htm
The Medical Home Index (MHI) is a validated self-assessment
and classification tool designed to translate the broad indicators
defining
the medical home (accessible,
family-centered, comprehensive,
coordinated, etc.) into observable, tangible
behaviors and
processes of care within any office setting. It is a way of measuring
and quantifying the "medical homeness" of a primary care practice.
The MHI is based on the premise that "medical home" is an evolutionary
process rather than a fully realized status for most practice settings. The MHI
measures a practice's progress in this process. The companion Medical Home Family
Index is also included on this site.
Tools to help improve practice policies and procedures:
Promoting Cultural Diversity and Cultural Competency
Self-Assessment Checklist for Personnel Providing Services
and Supports to Children and Youth with Special Health Needs
and their Families - Tawara D. Goode Download
Checklist. 
Medical Home Assessment Surveys
As part of “Building Medical Homes for Children with Special Health Care
Needs”, a federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau Community Integrated
Service Systems (CISS) project, staff sought to identify barriers to serving
as a medical home to children with special health care needs (CSHCN) in the Los
Angeles County area. In order to gather information about key components of care
in a medical home for children with special health care needs and barriers to
this care, the Los Angeles Medical Home Project conducted two surveys: 1) a surveys
of providers caring for children with special health care needs, and 2) a survey
of parents of children with special needs. Survey tools and results are available. Developed
by the Los
Angeles Medical Home Project for CSHCN.
Medical Home Assessment Questionnaires and Plan for Measuring
Outcomes:
These tools were created by the South Carolina Medical Home Team. The medical
home assessment questionnaires assess medical homeness as it relates to each
of the 7 medical home elements. They offer assessment tools for both the office
staff and the health care professional. They have also included a plan for measuring
medical home outcomes, recommending primary and secondary data sources, and improvement
measures /comparison information.
Health Care Office Staff Version
Health Care Professional
Version
Plan for Measuring
Medical Home Outcomes
The Oregon Medical Home Project: Provider Survey
The Oregon Medical Home Team has developed and implemented a measure called the Probed
T provider survey. The tool was developed to evaluate physician knowledge
of Medical Home concepts. They use the form when they present on Medical Home
topics to medical groups. For more information on this tool, please contact Patricia
Tangeman, Coordinator, Oregon Medical Home Project at tangeman@ohsu.edu
Last Updated
November 1, 2006
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