KAFP Patient Centered Medical Home
Patient Centered Medical Home
The Principles of a Patient Centered Medical Home:
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Kansas’ primary care physicians organizations and health-related foundations are looking at ways to help providers implement this important and new model: the Patient Centered Medical Home.
- Personal physician
- Physician-directed practice
- Whole person orientation
- Coordination and integration of health care
- Quality and safety
- Enhanced access
- Appropriate payment to physicians
For an individual, the PCMH model provides a regular source of primary care, which is associated with better health outcomes at lower costs. But, the PCMH model will also improve the patient experience. For example, patients enjoy enhanced access to care through open scheduling, expanded hours and new options for communication between patients, their personal physician and practice staff.
Having a regular source of preventive and primary care is associated with:
- Lower per person costs
- Lower emergency room utilization
- Fewer hospital admissions
- Fewer unnecessary tests and procedures
- Less illness and injury
- Higher patient satisfaction
The definition of a medical home according to Kansas law ( K.S.A. 75-7429) is: “A health care delivery model in which a patient establishes an ongoing relationship with a physician or other personal care provider in a physician-directed team, to provide comprehensive, accessible and continuous evidence-based primary and preventive care, and to coordinate the patient’s health care needs across the health care system in order to improve quality and health outcomes in a cost effective manner.”
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