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 ...

In a patient-level analysis of care at 56 sites in one region of the Veterans Health Administration, researchers reported no association between the widespread implementation of the patient-centered ...

The Patient Centered Medical Home The American College of Physicians represents more than 141,000 internal medicine physicians and subspecialists and has developed, in collaboration with the American ...

A study on the primary care medical home model found the nation may not have enough primary care physicians to handle chronic disease care workloads, complicating the role of specialist physicians in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...