Cleveland Clinic is the first hospital in the United States to earn The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for Primary Care Medical Home (PCMH) certification by demonstrating compliance with The ...

To improve health care quality and decrease costs, both the public and private sectors continue to make substantial investments in the transformation of primary care. Central to these efforts is the ...

I recently led a discussion with the leadership of a primary care network about patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) and care transformation. PCMH practices have attributes that enable them to ...

The Joint Commission has established its voluntary Primary Care Medical Home certification option for hospitals. To be eligible for the certification, organizations must be critical access hospitals ...

The University of Delaware Nurse Managed Primary Care Center has been certified as a Patient Centered Medical Home, a designation by the National Committee for Quality Assurance recognizing practices ...

While past studies have examined the relationship between safety-net provider sites that are certified as Patient Centered Medical Homes (PCMH) and quality health care outcomes, no previous studies ...

Practices undertake many care delivery changes and quality improvement practices to become patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs), and these differ by years of PCMH recognition. Objectives: Knowing ...

The Healthcare Association of New York State announced it will offer assistance to member hospital-based clinics and primary care sites interested in achieving recognition as a patient-centered ...

A recent analysis finds lackluster results in both cost reduction and quality improvement from organizations that have achieved Patient-Centered Medical Home certification. Does that mean we need to ...

The University of Wyoming’s Family Medicine Residency Clinic in Cheyenne has officially received Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) recognition. Part of the Educational Health Center of Wyoming ...

Preventive service use was better in patients with a usual source of care but little improved by patient-centered medical home status. Objectives: Despite data suggesting that patient-centered medical ...

At this point, certification is only a means to an end—perhaps we're still in the early innings of healthcare transformation. Certification, again, means that the tools are in place. Now practices ...