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What’s a Medical Home?

What’s a Medical Home?. Community Pediatrics Columbia University Children’s Hospital of New York. What’s a medical home?. A medical home is an approach to providing health care services in a high-quality and cost-effective manner

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What’s a Medical Home?

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  1. What’s a Medical Home? • Community Pediatrics • Columbia University • Children’s Hospital of New York

  2. What’s a medical home? • A medical home is an approach to providing health care services in a high-quality and cost-effective manner • Children and their families receive the care that they need from a pediatric health care profession whom they trust

  3. Qualities of a medical home • Accessible • Family-Centered • Continuous • Comprehensive • Coordinated • Compassionate • Culturally-Competent

  4. ACCESSIBLE • Care is provided in the child’s community • All insurance, including Medicaid, is accepted and changes are accommodated

  5. FAMILY-CENTERED • Recognition that the family is the principal caregiver and the center of strength and support for children • Unbiased and complete information is shared on an ongoing basis

  6. CONTINUOUS • Same primary pediatric health care professionals are available from infancy through adolescence • Assistance with transitions (to school, home, adult services) is provided

  7. COMPREHENSIVE • Health care is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week • Preventive, primary, and tertiary care needs are addressed

  8. COORDINATED • Families are linked to support, educational, and community-based services • Information is centralized

  9. COMPASSIONATE • Concern for well-being of child and family is expressed and demonstrated

  10. CULTURALLY-COMPETENT • Family’s cultural background is recognized, valued, and respected

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