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  •   Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH)

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    The Patient Centered Medical Home is a coordinated approach to providing comprehensive care for patients. The PCMH is a health care setting that facilitates partnerships between individual patients, their personal physicians, and the patient’s family. It is physician-directed, integrated, patient-focused with a focus on quality care and patient safety.

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  • What Are the Building Blocks of PCMH?

    Because every primary care practice and its patient population are different, no single pitch makes for a medical home run. But experts do agree on a defined set of principles. The main attributes of a medical home require health care delivery to be: 

    • Patient-centered,
    • Comprehensive,
    • Coordinated,
    • Accessible, and 
    • Committed to quality and safety. 

    The four major primary care physician associations — the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians, and the American Osteopathic Association — formalized the medical home concept in a set of "Joint Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home" in 2007. 

    The principles have since won endorsement from the American Medical Association and more than a dozen other physician organizations, as well as the national Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative.

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