Patient-Centered Medical Home

The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model is an approach to providing comprehensive primary care for children, youth, and adults. The PCMH is a health care setting that facilitates partnerships between individual patients and their personal physicians, and when appropriate, the patient’s family.

OAFP Resources

• Ohio-Specific PCMH Definition

American Academy of Family Physicians Resources

• Primary Care for the 21st Century: Ensuring a Quality, Physician-led Team for Every Patient
• Primary Care for the 21st Century Infographic
• PCMH Section of the AAFP Website
• PCMH Check Lists
• Joint Statement on Nurse Practitioners in Patient-Centered Medical Home Demonstration Projects
• Joint Principles for the Medical Education of Physicians as Preparation for Practice in the Patient-Centered Medical Home
• Joint Policy Statement Family Physicians and Physician Assistants: Team-Based Family Medicine
• Guidelines for Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition and Accreditation Programs

Other Resources

• PCMH Growth in Ohio (Weekly Family Medicine Update, June 23, 2015)
• National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
• Comprehensive Primary Care Plus
• Ohio Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
  • PCMH Toolbox for Patients/Consumers and Physicians
• Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC)
  • Benefits of Implementing the PCMH: a Review of Cost and Quality Results, 2012
  • Shared Principles of Primary Care