​​​​​​​​​​​​A medical home is not a building or a place. It is an approach to providing comprehensive primary care that facilitates partnership between patients, clinicians, medical staff and families.​​​

Start the Transformation Process​

Care within a medical home should be accessible, continuous, comprehensive, patient- and family-centered, coordinated, compassionate and culturally effective.​

Form a Medical Home Improvement Team

Finding the right family member/advocate to serve on a medical home improvement team requires clear communication from the team champion. A scope of work or job descriptions can be useful to describe these expectations.​​​

Assess Your Practice

A practice assessment allows the team to identify a sta​rting point from which to evolve throughout the transformation.​​​​​

Understand Quality Improvement

​The process of becoming a medical home is a thoughtful and continuous one. Comprehensive understanding of quality improvement is the key to successfully evolving into a medical home.​

Integrate Key Functions of Medical Home​

Discover leading concepts, tools and resources to advance your knowledge and understanding of the medical home as it relates to your practice transformation.​

Family-Centered Care

Characteristics of family-centered care and resources that may help your practice provide family-centered care.

Coordinated Care

Characteristics of coordinated care and resources to help you incorporate coordinated care in your practice.

Managing Your Patient Population

Characteristics of patient population management and resources that may help manage patient population within your practice.

Sustain Your Medical Home

Sustaining your medical home transformation is equally as important as the transformation process itself.​​ View the fundamental principles of medical home stability and resources to help you sustain your medical home here.


"Within a medical home, families are equal partners. A parent partner from a medical home practice noted, I was warmly welcomed into the group and my ideas were valued and implemented. The doctors truly care about each and every patient. It was interesting to see how they work on the personal side of the practice. I continue to be impressed with the quality of care and compassion they deliver daily to their patients and their families. They have made every effort to improve their practice and as a medical home, have had great successes."

- ​Diana MTK Autin, Esq.​

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Last Updated

06/01/2022

Source

American Academy of Pediatrics