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Patient-Centered Medical Home


What is a patient-centered medical home?

PCMH Q&A -- Learn more about the patient-centered medical home -- an approach to providing comprehensive primary care for people of all ages and medical conditions.
Watch "Fixing Health Care" Video -- The 2008 AAFP consumer poll "What Women Want" confirms that they want a patient-centered medical home!
(1:00-minute MP4 File; About Downloading)

How is the AAFP leading the way?

The AAFP has taken a leading role in the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC). Key achievements are highlighted below.

How do I get started?

Do you know what your medical home looks like? Find out where you stand on the journey to becoming a medical home by measuring your practice against the TransforMED Medical Home IQ Assessment's 8 core sets of competencies or "modules."

Learn more about how TransforMED is transforming the practice of primary care and their medical home model (1-page PDF).

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