Why “Medical Home” (Primary Care Physician Coordination) is so Important
The Medical Home—also known as Patient-Centered Medical Home or PCMH is a primary healthcare delivery model that works to centralize healthcare for you and your family. Patient treatment is coordinated through a primary care physician, facilitating partnerships between patients, doctors, and their families. The medical home model grew out of a need to reinvigorate primary healthcare with the aim of achieving improved patient experience, better quality medical care, and lower healthcare costs.
The medical home model aims to:
- Provide a cohesive medical team that delivers comprehensive care for both physical and mental health care needs, prevention and wellness, chronic care and acute care.
- Support the efforts of each patient’s self-care and get involved in each patients’ care plans by valuing each patient’s unique culture, needs, preferences, and values.
- Provide patients with full access to medical care with shorter wait times, as well as after-hours 24/7 services via telephone and email.
- Coordinate and connect patients to all areas of a complex health care system as well as community social resources.
- Commit to ongoing quality improvement that relies on a systems-based approach to safety and quality, highly values patient experience data, and advocates population health management.
- Coordinate care with needed healthcare specialists to focus on all areas of support and treatments that may be needed beyond the primary care model.
PrimaryPlus' team of medical providers have and continue to work to be patient-centered and provide that medical home model by offering a full-range of primary care services with many added specialties all under one roof.
Personal Primary Physician: Each patient establishes an ongoing relationship with their personal primary physician who serves as the primary contact for continuous, coordinated, and comprehensive healthcare.
Whole-Person Approach: The personal primary physician provides all the patient's health care needs and arranges necessary care with other medical specialists.
Physician Directed Medical Practice: The personal primary physician manages and directs a medical team in the practice who collectively are responsible for the ongoing care of the patients.
Care is coordinated and/or integrated: Care is coordinated within the complex healthcare systems of hospitals, specialists, nursing homes, and home health agencies, as well as the patient’s family and any community-based or social services. The goal is to ensure all necessary resources are utilized and accessible--being a community partner is key!
Affordability: PrimaryPlus-Ashland believes in keeping healthcare affordable--it is part of their mission as a Federally Qualified Health Center. They accept most insurances, all KY Medicaid plans, OH Medicaid (CareSource & Molina), Medicare and offer a sliding fee scale for patients without insurance or who are underinsured (high deductible plans, etc). Discounts provided by PrimaryPlus' sliding fee scale are up to 75% based on application approval. Plus, PrimaryPlus offers on-site pharmacy services that offer significant savings to their patients through their 340B program.
At PrimaryPlus-Ashland, connecting and managing your overall healthcare plan with your specific health issues needs is our number one priority. If you are interested in learning more about how we can serve you, learn more about our team or services, please visit our website or give us a call today at (606) 324-0128.
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