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Defining the Medical Home

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"The Patient-Centered Medical Home is an approach to providing comprehensive primary care for children, youth and adults. It is a health care setting that facilitates partnerships between individual patients and their personal physicians, and, when appropriate, the patient's family.

Each patient has an ongoing relationship with a personal physician trained to provide first contact, continuous and comprehensive care....Care is coordinated and/or integrated across all elements of the complex health care system and the patient's community....Care is facilitated by registries, information technology, health information exchange and other means to assure that patients get the indicated care when and where they need and want it in an culturally and linguistically appropriate manner."

 

Source: Excerpts from Joint Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home, March 2007, from American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Physicians and American Osteopathic Association.

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