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OSP Advantage Patient Centered Medical Home
The Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is an approach to providing comprehensive primary care to adults, youth and children. The PCMH will broaden access to primary care, while enhancing care coordination. Primary care physicians practicing in the highest level medical home will:
- Take personal responsibility and accountability for the ongoing care of patients;
- Be accessible to their patients on short notice, for expanded hours, and open scheduling;
- Be able to conduct consultations through email and telephone;
- Utilize the latest health information technology and evidence-based medical approaches, as well as maintain updated electronic personal health records;
- Conduct regular check-ups with patients to identify looming health crises, and initiate treatment/prevention measures before costly, last-minute emergency procedures are required;
- Advise patients on preventive care based on environmental and genetic risk factors they face;
- Help patients make healthy lifestyle decisions; and
- Coordinate care, when needed, making sure procedures are relevant, necessary, and performed efficiently.
To realize this vision, primary care physicians have additionally agreed to the following Joint Principles for patient-centered primary care:
- The option to develop an ongoing relationship with a personal physician;
- Physician-directed medical practice;
- Whole person orientation;
- Coordinated care across the health system;
- Ongoing, voluntary pursuit of quality and safety;
- Enhanced access to care; and Payment recognizing the value added.
The principles of PCMH have been endorsed by the American College of Physicians, American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics and American Osteopathic Association. Click below to watch a short video (in English or Spanish) which explains the PCMH concept.
Visit the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative to learn more about the national perspective on this emerging health care delivery model.
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