Data from more than 800 Veterans Health Administration (VHA) primary care clinics revealed that national implementation of a patient-centered medical home model was effective at improving several ...

The patient-centered medical home — a model of providing primary care in a physician office that involves care teams and health coaches — has spread far and wide in the last five years. Numbers to ...

Older adults who suffer serious injuries from a fall or a motor vehicle accident often have impaired long-term functioning and diminished quality of life. A new study has found the new Trauma Medical ...

March 19, 2010 — Employing a "medical home" care approach for chronically ill children can reduce emergency department (ED) visits by more than half, according to a study published online March 11 by ...

Veterans Affairs (VA) piloted three new patient-centered medical home (PCMH) models adding new team roles and increasing panel sizes. Implementation revealed that basic structure and processes must be ...

Patient-centered medical homes in Maryland’s multipayer demonstration disrupted the pattern of recurrently high expenditure among the costliest patients and improved continuity of care. Objective: To ...

Most of the federally qualified health centers that participated in a program to help them adopt a "medical home" model of advanced primary care were successful in doing so according to a new RAND ...

The train has left the station. Everyone is on board: health policy leaders both public, like the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), and private, like ...

Healthcare reform will emphasize the medical home model, but the nation may not have enough primary care doctors to handle the workload, according to a study by the University of Michigan Health ...

INDIANAPOLIS – Older adults who suffer serious injuries from a fall or a motor vehicle accident often have impaired long-term functioning and diminished quality of life. A new study, published in JAMA ...