MN-AAP's health care home taskforce, chaired by Drs. Gordy Harvieux and Marilyn Peitso, meets on a regular basis to provide pediatric clinics with health care home leadership. Additional members include Drs. Elsa Keeler, Yeng Yang and Amy Burt.
Health care homes represent a signficant redesign of health care in Minnesota. A "health care home," also known as a "medical home," is an approach to primary care in which providers, families and patients work in partnership to improve health outcomes and quality of life for individuals, especially those with chronic health conditions and disabilities, and ultimately contain or reduce health care costs.
MN-AAP helped pioneer this concept Minnesota in 2003 through a series of learning collaboratives to define essential qualities of a health care home, which include increased access, increased communication, improved patient registry, improved care coordination and improved performance reporting. Since then, MN-AAP has helped more than 250 pediatricians become certified as health care home providers in Minnesota. It has also provided training and technical assistance to more than 1,300 physicians and clinic staff in Minnesota.
MN-AAP's health care home taskforce is currently working with the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) and the Minnesota Department of Human Services (MDHS) to refine the payment methodology tool used to determine health care home payments to pediatric clinics. The taskforce is also working with Minnesota Community Measures to identify quality improvement measures for health care homes.
Past webinars/presentations on health care home certification
MN-AAP has partnered with MDH and MDHS on a series of webinars designed to assist providers with health care home certification. Click here for recent webinars/presentations.
Important Health Care Home Websites:
MN-AAP has reviewed many websites with information about health care homes and identified 7 as most relevant to pediatrics. Click here to view a list of resources.
Documents/Articles of Possible Interest:
Health Plans' Responses to Health Care Home Questions(October 2010)
Representatives from Minnesota's major health plans to ask them how they plan to work with Minnesota physicians and clinics to implement payment for health care homes. Their responses have been put into a grid for physicians and clinics to reference. The grid also includes contact information for specific health care home questions.
Pediatric medical home model cuts ED visits by 55% (March 2010)
Visits to a hospital emergency department were cut by 55% when a medical home model was used to coordinate care for chronically ill children, study data showed. The model used by the University of California, Los Angeles, conformed to AAP guidelines and featured a one-hour intake appointment and 40-minute follow-up visits, a bilingual liaison for families, and a binder to help families store their child's medical records in a single place
Minnesota Healthcare News (May 2006)
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"medical home" is a partnership of care. It all begins with a child.
Minnesota Medicine (January 2006)
The Minnesota Medical Home Learning Collaborative, A Step to Improving Care for Minnesota's Children with Special Health Care Needs.
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