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For Physicians:
COMING SOON:
Medical Home Plus Online CME Program
In the near future, Medical Home Plus plans to offer a convenient program of
one-hour online courses enabling physicians to earn CME credit while building
skills that will enable them to better serve families with special health care
needs. These courses, delivered by Virginia pediatricians who are highly
experienced in providing care to families with special needs, are designed to
help you extend your services to this growing sector of the pediatric
marketplace in a financially sound and sustainable way.
If you'd like to be informed when these courses become available, just email
Medical Home Plus at
learning@medhomeplus.org and we'll make sure you're notified.
Medical Home Collaboration
All children with special health care needs will receive
coordinated, ongoing, comprehensive care within a medical home.
Healthy People 2010
U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services
Maternal and Child Health Bureau
December 2001
2010 may be years away but a
collaborative initiative in Virginia is working to make “Medical Home” a reality
for all children in Virginia. Medical Home Plus, the Central Virginia Care
Connection for Children (CVACCC), Family Voices, Medical Home Plus (MHP), Parent
to Parent, Title V - Virginia Department of Health (VDH), and the VA Chapter,
American Academy of Pediatrics are working together to inform parents,
practitioners and insurers about what a medical home is, how services are
provided and how a medical home leads to a higher level of wellness for the
child as well as improved customer satisfaction.
The Medical Home concept was
initially introduced in Virginia in the fall of 2002 but it wasn’t until the
spring of 2003 when several members of the collaborative attended training
sessions sponsored by the National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality
(NICHQ) that planning for statewide implementation began in earnest. There,
team members learned about the necessary components of medical home and how to
assist pediatric practices in implementing a change process by using a model for
improvement called “PDSA” – plan, do, study, act. The PDSA process is a way to
implement small changes while evaluating whether they are workable and realistic
for full practice wide implementation.
With the assistance of a HRSA grant,
13 pediatric practices throughout Virginia have agreed to work with the Medical
Home Plus resource team to make their practice a “Medical Home”. Each practice
team includes at least one physician, a service coordinator, and a parent.
Including a parent in the process of change has been a new experience for the
majority of the practices. As team members, parents tell it like it is. It is
through their experience that the areas for change are identified and the PDSA
cycle begins.
For more information contact Colleen
Kraft at 804-330-5030.
Medical
Home Collaborative
Project
Participant Login
Infant
Jesus Children’s Clinic Teams: Colonial Heights, Petersburg and
Hopewell
Partners: Medical Home Plus, VA Chapter AAP, VDH,
Title V, Care Connection for
Children, and Family Voices of Virginia
Practice Team: Infant Jesus Children’s
Clinic Teams: Colonial Heights, Petersburg and Hopewell
Resource Team: Colleen Kraft, MD, Fran
Gallagher, MEd, Barbara Harding, RN
A project in Virginia designed to improve health care for
children with special health care needs.
• Participants: 13 community based pediatric practices and 1
pediatric group practice (residency program)
• Pilot Locations: Central, Southwest, and Northern Virginia
• Approach: practice teams include physicians, service
coordinators, and a parent/family member of a child with
special health care needs
• A model for improvement called PDSA – plan, do, study, act
cycles help to implement small changes that foster
improvements
• Medical Home Resource Team supports practice teams…
• conducts onsite visits
• share point portal
• conference calls
• community partnerships and resources
Mountain View Pediatrics, Marion, Virginia
Medical Home Collaborative
Submitted by: Fran Gallagher, MEd; Colleen Kraft, MD
Families of children with special health
care needs
will partner in decision making at all levels
and will be satisfied with the services they receive.
All children with
special health care needs
will receive coordinated, ongoing,
comprehensive care within a medical home.
Healthy People 2010 (Goals 1&2)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Maternal and Child Health Bureau
December 2001
Medical
Home Plus (MHP, (a 501 C 3 non-profit
agency) and collaborative partner of the VA AAP, received a
second year contract to continue to assist Virginia’s primary
care practices to move forward with Healthy People 2010,
the above Goals 1 and 2. In central, northern and southwest
regions, 13 community based pediatric practices in Virginia are
participating in the Medical Home Collaborative Project
designed to improve care for children with special health care
needs and strengthen physician and parent partnerships. Each
practice has formed a team including a physician, a service
coordinator, and a parent of a child with special health care
needs. For many practices, having a parent at the table is a
new experience. As team members, parents “tell it like it is”.
It is through their experience that the areas for change are
identified and the PDSA cycle begins.
Team
members learn about the necessary components of medical home and
how to assist pediatric practices in implementing a change
process by using a model for improvement called “PDSA” – plan,
do, study, act. The PDSA process is a way to implement small
changes while evaluating whether they are workable and realistic
for full practice wide implementation.
The Medical Home Resource Team |
Online CME Program
