The Medical Home is the model for 21st century primary care, with the goal of addressing and integrating high quality health promotion, acute care and chronic condition management in a planned, coordinated and family-centered manner.

How can this Toolkit help your practice?

The Toolkit supports your development and/or improvement of a pediatric Medical Home. It also prepares you to to apply for and potentially meet the NationalCommittee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Physician Practice Connections^® Patient Centered Medical Home (PPC-PCMH^TM) Recognition program requirements. The AAP created a crosswalk between each of the Toolkit building blocks and the NCQA PPC-PCMH Recognition Program 'must pass' elements.

Why it is important to measure
Medical Home at your practice?

Patient care associated with the Medical Home improves outcomes, such as health status, timeliness of care, family centeredness and family functioning. The NCQA PPC-PCMH standards provide a way to qualify and quantify care in the Medical Home. In some practices, scoring at NCQA higher levels has resulted in enhanced payment to the practice.

How to Begin

The Toolkit is organized into six building blocks that provide guidance for Medical Home implementation with links to downloadable tools.