What We Do (PCMH)

The Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative works to develop and advance the patient centered medical home (PCMH), an approach to providing comprehensive primary care for children, youth and adults. The PCMH is a healthcare setting that facilitates partnerships between individual patients and their personal physicians, and when appropriate, the patient’s family.  In February 2007, four primary care societies -- American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Physicians and the American Osteopathic Association -- developed the Joint Principles for the PCMH, summarized in these points: 

• Ongoing relationship with a personal physican;
  
• Physician-directed medical practice;
• Whole-person orientation;
• Care is coordinated and/or integrated;
• Quality and safety;
• Enhanced access to care; and
  
• Payment appropriately recognizes the added value.

Since its creation, numerous physician organizations have endorsed the Joint Principles.  Please click here to access the full list.

    Wikipedia's definition of the Medical Home 

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