Primary Care and Medical Homes
To Align or Not to Align: State Options in Multi-Payer Medical Home Initiatives
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm ET View Webinar Here Currently, 19 states are participating in one or more multi-payer patient centered medical home initiatives (PCMH). As states develop new multi-payer PCMH initiatives, they will have to grapple with the question of how much, if any, alignment is necessary among key programmatic […]
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North Carolina’s IMPaCT Initiative: Enhancing Primary Care Practice Support
Through the Infrastructure for Maintaining Primary Care Transformation (IMPaCT) initiative, North Carolina launched two learning collaboratives to enhance its existing infrastructure for primary care practice support. North Carolina is one of four lead IMPaCT states that have expanded, evaluated, and shared their efforts to transform primary care practices. This issue brief summarizes key strategies, results […]
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Making an IMPaCT: State Models for Primary Care Transformation
The national IMPaCT project supported North Carolina as one of four leading states in the field of practice transformation and primary care extension. Through IMPaCT, North Carolina partnered with four other states (Idaho, Maryland, Montana, West Virginia) to disseminate its primary care practice transformation strategies. Together these states formed the North Carolina IMPaCT Learning Community, […]
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Lessons in Primary Care Extension from Four States
By Larry Hinkle October 2013 Many states are testing primary care extension as a strategy for supporting continuous quality improvement in practice. Primary care extension is based on the model of the Agricultural Extension Service. In health care this model applies scientific research and new knowledge to practices through provider education – often led […]
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Building Infrastructure to Promote Primary Care Transformation: Lessons from a Four-State Learning Community
As part of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)’s Infrastructure for Maintaining Primary Care Transformation initiative, NASHP worked with four states (Idaho, Maryland, Montana, and West Virginia) that sought to adapt aspects of North Carolina’s nationally recognized model of primary care practice transformation. This report summarizes the value of primary care transformation for […]
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Five Key Strategies to Engage Health Care Payers and Purchasers in a Multi-Payer Medical Home Initiative
One of the most critical steps in developing and implementing a multi-payer medical home initiative is securing health care payer and purchaser participation. This new NASHP brief discusses five overarching strategies that conveners can use to make the case: building trust among competitors; leveraging existing infrastructure; using the market to drive demand; striking the balance […]
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Aligning Federal and State Approaches to Integrating Primary Care and Community Resources
Monday, December 9, 2013 12:30-2pm EST View Webinar Here Join NASHP for a webinar on aligning federal and state programs and policies to support building stronger linkages between primary care and resources and services within the community, including behavioral, public health, long-term services and socio-economic supports. State leaders from Alabama and Rhode Island will describe […]
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School-Based Health Care for Adults, Too
By Andy Snyder September 2013 It’s the start of the school year, and some school-based health centers (SBHCs) are busy providing health services not just to students, but to adults as well. The School-Based Health Alliance reports that the number of school-based health centers that provide care to students’ families, school faculty, and the wider […]
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A Medical Home Framework for Increasing Cervical Cancer Screening Rates: Best Practices for FQHCs
Through regular screening cervical cancer is a highly preventable disease, yet thousands of women are newly diagnosed with the cancer each year. This brief features best practices from 14 FQHCs across 7 states that have made significant strides to reduce the incidence of cervical cancer enabled by adopting core attributes of the patient-centered medical home […]
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Federal and State Policy to Promote the Integration of Primary Care and Community Resources
Around the country, models are emerging to link primary care providers not only to other medical service providers but also to resources and services in the community. This report—the first in a series supported by The Commonwealth Fund to explore opportunities for improvement in federal and state policy–highlights relevant policy levers and federal and state […]
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