ODH updates As part of the Ohio PCMH Education Pilot Project (HB 198) a PCMH Interprofessional Curriculum meeting was held on Wed June 4 with 80 participants including physicians nurses physician assistants social workers pharmacists psychologists physical therapists audiologists dieticians sports medicine radiologic technologists occupational therapists special education professional public health and practice coaches A team from OSU Family Medicine at CarePoint Gahanna presented an example of how their interprofessional team works Cynthia Pearsall MSN RN Chief Nursing Officer at Fairfield Medical Center led the group through the Appreciative Inquiry process to look at how to better achieve team-based patient-centered care in Ohio

Date change The third annual Ohio Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative conference will be held on Friday November 7 2014 at COSI in Columbus Watch for more details soon

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A Practical Playbook Public Health amp Primary Care Together Thur June 19 at 1200 PM The need for collaboration between primary care and public health is widely recognized but these sectors donrsquot have a lot of experience working together To address this the de Beaumont Foundation Duke Community and Family Medicine and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have developed a new tool ndash A Practical Playbook Public Health amp Primary Care Together Register

Ohio PCMH Weekly

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PCMH News and Articles Team training takes off At the University of Minnesota teams of students from around the country studying medicine nursing pharmacy public health and healthcare administration come together each year to compete in a contest testing their ability to solve a systemic and individual patient problem through an interdisciplinary approach A growing number of academic medical centers and health systems around the country are offering training to students and working professionals in how clinicians should collaborate to provide coordinated care and work together on new models such as patient-centered medical homes and accountable care networks Experts say such interprofessional education (IPE) is essential as the US healthcare system moves toward integrated-care delivery and strives to improve quality and reduce costs Read article Team-Based Carendashthe ldquoWhordquo of the Patient-Centered Medical Home The PCMH is a concept that has evolved over the last 40 years and has the potential to take good primary care practices to great However practices first must transform their staff to assume new roles and develop needed skills in the new practice paradigm Read more NPP Demand Rising Under Value-Based Care Models Multispecialty medical practices with non-physician providers typically perform better financially than those without physician assistants and nurse practitioners an MGMA report finds The use of physician assistants nurse practitioners and other non-physician providers continues to accelerate with the advent of value-based coordinated care delivery Unfortunately for proponents of primary care a growing number of non-physician providers are following physicians into more urban areas and into subspecialties because thats where the money is Read article PAs and the Patient-Centered Medical Home Physician assistant practice is integrated patient-focused and team-basedmdash perfectly suited to the patient-centered medical home PAs as skilled medical providers excellent communicators and consummate team players embody qualities essential to an effective PCMH practice Read more Rural hospitals a model for cutting healthcare costs Critical access hospital spending is just 2 percent of the Medicare budget Medicare is also spending less per patient in rural areas than it is in urban areas to the tune of 15 billion dollars But how can that be Read more

Congratulations to the following sites in Neighborhood Family Practice sites in Cleveland who have received Joint Commission certification as Primary Care Medical Homes bull Neighborhood Family Practice bull Neighborhood Family Practice

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at Puritas Do you have some PCMH news to share We would like to highlight your achievements in this section of Ohio PCMH Weekly Please send your submissions to PCMHodhohiogov

Primary Care Progress 2013 Annual Report The Primary Care Progress annual report from 2013 is now available on their website Access report