Partnerships to Improve Your Medical Home

Challenge - Providing children and families a comprehensive medical home with limited resources of all kinds.

Goal - More efficient practices with greater customer satisfaction.

Challenges

• What stands in the way of that?– The “Listening Ear”

• Cost efficiency• Non-medical issues

Benefits

• More comprehensive family-centered care

• Increased Doctor efficiency

• Reduced family waiting time

• Reduced “distance” between medical community and the rest of the family’s world

Paying For It

“It always comes down to money”

- Dr. Anne Francis

• 3 Scenarios– Partnerships with Community Based Organizations– Partnerships with services providers who can bill for

their services independently– Community members who might volunteer their

services

The Model

1. Dealing with personal emotional health

2. Working knowledge of community resources

3. Understanding roles in the practice

4. Developing skills to connect to the family

5. Helping families develop their teams