Medical Home & Other Links

Medical Home Resources

Introduction to the Patient Centered Medical Home Video

Introduction to the Patient Centered Medical Home is a multimedia program that was developed to help explain this innovative model of healthcare to consumers. The program is the result of a collaboration between the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative and Emmi Solutions®.

This video was created by Emmi Solutions in partnership with the PCPCC to educate patients, employees, and other stakeholders about the Patient Centered Medical Home.  To view the video, visit: www.pcpcc.net/content/emmi

National Center for Medical Home Implementation
The National Center for Medical Home Implementation supports medical home implementation in order to ensure that all children and youth, including those with special health care needs, have the services and support necessary for full community inclusion.
www.medicalhomeinfo.org

Build Your Own Care Notebook is tool to help parents/caregivers maintain an ongoing record of their child's care, services, providers, and notes. This notebook empowers families to become the experts on their child's care. It is also a way to maintain the lines of communication between the many providers and services that help care for a child and their family.

Health professionals recommend that parents/ caregivers bring this notebook to all medical appointments, therapies, care conferences, on vacations, etc. Health professionals can encourage the use of these notebook by either having them available at the first office visit, upon discharge from the hospital or in the waiting room on a resource table. This notebook should be a team responsibility. Office staff should offer families assistance in filling out the various forms. Medical offices can copy visits, checkups, immunization records, specialist reports, clinical pathways, and give them to families to insert into the notebook. To build your Care Notebook, start here www.medicalhomeinfo.org/tools/care_notebook.html

National Center for Medical Home Implementation
Information in Spanish
http://www.medicalhomeinfo.org/tools/spanishportal.html

This site is an online toolkit designed to assist physicians in building or improving a medical home within a practice. The Toolkit is organized into six building blocks that provide guidance for Medical Home implementation with links to downloadable tools. www.pediatricmedhome.org

Other Family-Related Resources

Family Voices
Mission: Family Voices aims to achieve family-centered care for all children and youth with special health care needs and/or disabilities. Through our national network, we provide families tools to make informed decisions, advocate for improved public and private policies, build partnerships among professionals and families, and serve as a trusted resource on health care.
http://www.familyvoices.org/

Family to Family Health Information Centers
Family Voices provides training and technical assistance to Family to Family Health Information Centers (F2F HICs) and the national Family Voices Network focused on helping them assist families and professionals in caring for children and youth with special health care needs (cyshcn).
http://www.familyvoices.org/projects/f2f.php

Parent to Parent USA
Parent to Parent-USA (P2P-USA) is a national non-profit organization committed to assuring access and quality in Parent to Parent support across the country.
www.p2pusa.org