TY - JOUR
KW - Appointments and Schedules
KW - Communication
KW - Community Health Centers/organization & administration
KW - Evidence-Based Medicine
KW - Health Services Accessibility
KW - Humans
KW - Medically Underserved Area
KW - Patient Care Planning
KW - Patient Care Team
KW - Patient-Centered Care/organization & administration
KW - Poverty
KW - Primary Health Care/organization & administration
KW - Quality Assurance, Health Care
KW - Referral and Consultation
KW - Uncompensated Care
AU - K. Coleman
AU - K. Phillips
A1 - 
AB - Enthusiasm for the patient-centered medical home model is growing, yet initial research is scant, showing that true transformation is challenging and that meaningful improvements in care delivery, efficiency, and health outcomes take time and sustained investment. This brief surveys safety-net health centers to determine their potential to become medical homes. Safety-net health centers that provide vulnerable and low-income populations with comprehensive primary care have unique opportunities for successful transformation, but also face challenges. For example, nearly half of the health centers surveyed do not have a process for scheduling patients with a personal provider or have an existing process that needs improvement; two-thirds do not have a process for same-day scheduling or have a process that needs improvement. Survey data also show that health centers that employed team-based care were more likely to have instituted patient access and communications processes, relative to those without team-based care.
BT - Issue brief (Commonwealth Fund)
C5 - Medical Home
CY - United States
JF - Issue brief (Commonwealth Fund)
N2 - Enthusiasm for the patient-centered medical home model is growing, yet initial research is scant, showing that true transformation is challenging and that meaningful improvements in care delivery, efficiency, and health outcomes take time and sustained investment. This brief surveys safety-net health centers to determine their potential to become medical homes. Safety-net health centers that provide vulnerable and low-income populations with comprehensive primary care have unique opportunities for successful transformation, but also face challenges. For example, nearly half of the health centers surveyed do not have a process for scheduling patients with a personal provider or have an existing process that needs improvement; two-thirds do not have a process for same-day scheduling or have a process that needs improvement. Survey data also show that health centers that employed team-based care were more likely to have instituted patient access and communications processes, relative to those without team-based care.
PP - United States
PY - 2010
SN - 1558-6847; 1558-6847
SP - 1
EP - 14
EP - 
T1 - Providing underserved patients with medical homes: Assessing the readiness of safety-net health centers
T2 - Issue brief (Commonwealth Fund)
TI - Providing underserved patients with medical homes: Assessing the readiness of safety-net health centers
U1 - Medical Home
U2 - 20496478
VL - 85
VO - 1558-6847; 1558-6847
Y1 - 2010
ER -