Question

1. What is a patient centered medical home? List the 5 components.

2. Who supports the PCMH model in King County? Give a specific example.

Answer 1

5 components of patient centered medical home

1. Patient centered care: The PCMH delivers primary care. This is achieved by partnering with patients and families through an understanding of respect for culture, needs, preferences and values.
2. Coordinated care: The PCMC coordinates patient care across all elements of the health care system, such as speciality care, hospitals, home health care and community services.
3. Accessible services: PCMC seeks the make primary care accessible through minimizing wait times, enhanced office hours and after hours access to providers through alternative methods such as phone or email.
4. Comprehensive care: The PCMC is designed to meet the majority of a patients and mental health care needs through a team based approach to care.
5. Quality and safety: Safe high quality care through clinical decision support tool, evidence based care, shared decision making, performance measurement and population health management. Sharing data , improving activities are the commitments to quality.

The PCMC Model in king county supported by 'American college of Association and physicians. Eg. HCHN subcontracts with community based agencies to operate multidicipilinary, integracy teams organised by geographic sub regions of king county.