Practice Transformation Guide

Over the past few years, we have had the opportunity to speak about the patient-centered medical home to audiences of primary care clinicians and administrators across the country. The initial response has been uniformly positive and supportive. Health care professionals are genuinely excited at the prospect of delivering comprehensive, effective, and efficient patient-centered care. In some cases though, clinicians react with trepidation, for the act of transforming a primary care practice into a medical home can be a daunting, complex process, and a practice must accomplish this transformation while continuing to serve patients. We recognize that this is not a simple task.

The good news for primary care practices is that you don't have to travel the path to PCMH transformation alone. There are many organizations that have developed the expertise and capacity to guide primary care practices through the transformation process using a variety of tools and services. The purpose of this Resource Guide is to identify those organizations for primary care practices so that you can get support as you begin the journey of becoming a medical home.

In this publication, you will find:

• A directory of more than 45 PCMH transformation support organizations. The entry for each organization includes a description of the organization's product or service, geographic scope, staff qualifications, and references.
• A bibliography of publications and articles that describe PCMH transformation studies, processes, and outcomes.

Now that the patient-centered medical home is an accepted national health policy goal, the real work begins. It is time to put policy into practice and support the formation of medical homes in communities across the country, and the organizations listed in this Resource Guide stand ready to support that process.

We hope that this Resource Guide will help you to identify partners to help you transform your practice into a PCMH. We encourage you to pick up the phone and talk with some of the organizations listed here about how they can work with you to begin the journey.

To download the guide you may do so here or from the link below. 

To request an application to have your organization included in the next version, please contact Ana Lojanica at [email protected].