Medical Home's Role in Reforming Health Care Delivery is Central Theme of Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative National Summit

PCPCC will also release two new white papers at Washington, DC meeting

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The nation's top thought leadership and advocates for the patient centered medical home (PCMH) will convene a national meeting in Washington, DC Oct. 22 to unite around the Summit's goal to build, expand and support a fundamentally improved model for health care delivery.

As the debate surrounding health care reform nears a vote in Congress, the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) will bring together policymakers, academics and medical home pioneers for the one-day event. The PCPCC is a coalition of more than 600 organizations representing the nation's business leaders, consumer groups, organizations representing primary care physicians and other health care stakeholders. The PCMH movement aims to partner every American with a primary health care provider who is responsible and accountable for ongoing care and care coordination.

Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz (D. Pa.) will offer the keynote address. National Economic Council Special Assistant to the President Robert Kocher, MD, will be among participants in a panel discussion of the role of the PCMH in health reform. Joining him on the panel will be Stephen Cha, professional staff majority, House Energy & Commerce Committee; Ree Sailors, program director, health division, Center for Best Practices, National Governors Association; and Ahaviah Glaser, American Association for Retired Persons.

Two new PCPCC publications will be introduced at the Summit. Across the nation, dozens of patient centered medical homes are already organizing or operating at the local, regional and state levels. Proof in Practice: A compilation of patient centered medical home pilot and demonstration projects reports the progress of pilots and initiatives, providing descriptions and details of how they are structured and what they are achieving. To preorder a free copy, go to https://www.elbowspace.com/servlets/cfd?xr4=&formts=2009-09-23%2008:37:40.283407.

Consumer engagement and collaboration in care are vital components for PCMH success. A Collaborative Partnership: Resources to help consumers thrive in the medical home presents resources for consumer engagement developed by the PCPCC and partner organizations, as well as industry resources and the latest data on how pilots are working to connect with consumers. To pre-order a free copy, go to https://www.elbowspace.com/servlets/cfd?xr4=&formts=2009-09-23%2008:27:58.728405.

"In just three years, the PCPCC has matured to become the driving force behind transformation of the way care is delivered to patients," said Edwina Rogers, executive director of the PCPCC. "The nationwide focus on health care brings us together to focus on the primary care provider working with the patient to offer superb access to continuous, comprehensive, coordinated care for acute needs as well as for prevention and wellness services. Advancing health care closer to that goal -- to ensure that every American has a medical home -- is the purpose of the PCPCC."

Additional speakers at the Summit include:

• John Crosby, JD, chairman, PCPCC; executive director, American Osteopathic Association
• Paul Grundy, MD, MPH, president, PCPCC; director of healthcare technology and strategic initiatives, IBM
• Edwina Rogers, JD, executive director, PCPCC
• Joanne M. Shear, MS, clinical program manager, office of patient care services, primary care, Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration
• Kevin Dorrance, MD, assistant chief of medicine, National Naval Medical Center
• Marie Maes-Voreis, RN, MA, program manager, health care homes, Minnesota Department of Health
• Hank Rappaport, senior product manager, Microsoft
• Rebecca A. Malouin, PhD, MPH, assistant professor; director of international programs, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University
• Chad Boult, MD, MPH, MBA, principal investigator, department of health policy and management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Bruce Sherman, MD, medical director, global services, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
• Lynda McMillin, director of implementation services, WellCentive, LLC
• Joseph W. Stubbs, MD, president, American College of Physicians
• Shannah Koss, Center for eHealth Information Adoption and Exchange, PCPCC
• Stephanie M. Hammonds, PharmD, health fellow, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, HELP Committee, Majority Health Policy Office
• Mona M. Counts, PhD, clinical director, Primary Care Center of Mt. Morris, Pennsylvania
• Lloyd Michener, MD, professor & chair, department of community and family medicine; director, Duke Center for Community Research, Duke University Medical Center
• Fitzhugh Mullan, MD, Murdock head professor of medicine and health policy, The George Washington University, department of health policy
• Jeffrey Borkan, MD, PhD, professor and chair, department of family medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University
  

To register for the Summit or to view a complete agenda, go to http://www.pcpcc.net/octobersummit.

The PCPCC is organized and financed to provide better outcomes for patients, more efficient payment to physicians and better value, accountability and transparency to purchasers and consumers. Studies of the PCMH model show that it improves patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes. It also lowers health care costs by improving care coordination and communication between primary care physicians and their patients.

About the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative

The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative is a coalition of more than 600 major employers, consumer groups, organizations representing primary care physicians, and other stakeholders who have joined to advance the patient-centered "medical home." The Collaborative believes that, if implemented, the patient-centered medical home will improve the health of patients and the health care delivery system. For more information on the patient-centered medical home and a complete list of the PCPCC members, please visit http://www.pcpcc.net/.

SOURCE The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative